Pottery and porcelain of all times and nations; with tables of factory and artists' marks for the use of collectors (1878)
Prime, William Cowper, 1825-1905 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 132
an early period, to the imitation of these eggs in pottery withwhite enamel. M. Jacquemart seems to regard some of these as amongthe earliest known specimens of Saracen pottery. A group of these eggsformed the hanging ornaments of a lamp in the Church of the l^ativityat Bethlehem, where we chanced… … sustained the shock, and, being no longer of use to the lamp, naturallyfound their way to our collection. One of these has a clear, pure whiteglaze, under which are decorations in pale-bluearabesques. The others are of coarse paste, yellow-ish glaze, with decorations of rude cherubs heads,and…
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