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 274
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 Greek vases, to serve as models of pure andsimple forms, and thus change the… … Fig. Mb.—Sevres Vase, called Cuve Ovale Ducereau^ XIV. and XV. This, in a degree, was restored by the purer andbetter tastes of the time of Louis XVI., when there was a reactiontoward the classic in both literature and art. In Fig. 130 we have engraved a vase of the time of Louis XVI.,which…
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