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 106
pplied to apreviously existing style. The earliest specimens of Saracen ceramic art are these tiles, the suc-cessors of the enamelled bricks of the ancients. Before examining thespecial characteristics of other Saracen products, it is important to lookat these tiles, which, in variety and beauty,… … Saracenic. Old mosques andtombs in Persia, and far to theeast of modern Persia, aboundin wall tiles of superb charac-ter. Count de Rochchouart hasa blue glazed brick, found inthe ruins of the ancient city ofKirnian. Fragments of glazedtiles have been found in theruins of Phages, an ancient cityof…
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