Pottery & porcelain, a guide to collectors; containing nearly two hundred illustrations of specimens of various factories, nine coloured plates, and marks and monograms of all the important makers (1912)
Litchfield, Frederick, b. 1850 · London : Truslove & Hanson · leaf 35
some fifty years,from A.D. 832 to 878, and he has suggested a special title, that ofSicilo-Arabian, for the ware made in Sicily which he traces to thisArabic influence. The paste is of a dull white colour, somewhat over-fired, the glaze thick and found in tears or blobs aboutthe base, and the… … Sicilo-Arabian Vase, painted with Arabic inscription, thirteenth to fourteenthcentury (Xictoria and Albert Museum). The last refuge of the Moors in Spain from the power of theirChristian conquerors was Granada, and here was founded (aliout1250) the Alhambra, the well-known fortress-palace; we…
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