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 33
PORCELAIX. haps three thousand, the character of these American potteries grew lessand less pure and simple, and more and more debased and vulgar; Avhichone can well believe, when we see everywhere that whole nations, someof them calling themselves civilized, have gone the same road, down-ward from… … Fig. 21.—Anciint Oitul. hardly classified or understood. Many of them bear marks of Assyrianor of Phcenician inspiration; and among them are rude vessels closelyresembling those of Peru, and al.^o many grotesque forms of vases andanimals, such as mark the early attempts at Art in (ithcr nations.…
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