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 273
Judgment, GrirolamoPadre ? The subject is so full of interest in the history of art that anysuggestion, however wild, is worth considering. Whoever he was, the first European artist on porcelain must for thepresent rest unknown with the first European inventor of porcelain, theold man of Venice,… … and did not reappear in Italy for more than a century. The faience-makers of Castelli and Naples were producing their work, the last of thelong series of Italian majolica, when Charles III. was induced to foundthe Capo-di-Monte porcelain factory at Naples. That it grew out of afaience pottery is…
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