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 273
igures sug-gest a delicate reminiscence of Pompeii and the luxury and decadenceof those Greek Komans, which there reached a full development, andwhich remain to us when all of Rome is in ruin, preserved by tlicashes of Vesuvius through these nineteen centuries. The vase, Fig. 134, is the largest of… … Via. \U.—Sevres Vase, called Vase Etriuque Carafe. of the old Greek vases, but the decoration is more strikiiiir andelaljorate. SEVRES porcelain: 265 A perception of this excessive ornamentation came to somebodyabout the year 17S5, for in that year Louis XVI. liought from M.Denon a collection of…
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