Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 (1878)
Elliott, Charles Wyllys, 1817-1883 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 180
d thecommercial facidties, and thus w^as able to produce results of a strikingkind. Like Shakespeare, he was omnivorous, and browsed wherever thepastures were sweet. All food was good which could be turned intodelectable milk. Some of the most perfect of Wedgwoods work was made in theblack ha^alt;… … Fig. ^^.— Wedgxcood Basalt. Vase, and now the Portland Vase, was to be sold by auction. Wedg-wood was inspired with a desire to possess it; probably with the inten-tion of making copies. He kept bidding upon it, but his competitorwas the Duchess of Portland, who also was inspired with the desireof…
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