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 395
the Trumbull-Prime collection has for a cap a lizard, thehead in front, the feet on each side, the bodyand pendent tail behind, precisely like thepanther or lion skin cap of the ancient Greeks.On a black Peruvian bottle in our collection,the sole ornament is a lizard winding around284. Bottle:… … ANCIENT AMERICAN POTTERY. 391 cases such patterns as are the natural result and growth out of combina-tions of straight lines in cheeks, and circles crossing each other and crossedby straight lines. The colors used are red, black, yellow, andwhite. Elaborate paintings are occasionally ex-ecuted.…
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