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 400
292. Peruvian Const Pottery. ANCIENT AMERICAN rOTTERY. 395 Ruminhauy, or Rumminaui, was a celebrated chieftain at the time of theconquest of Peru, mentioned by De la Vega. He schemed to succeedAtalmalpa, and, after fighting with the Spaniards, and accomplishing vari-ous barbaric murders, was… … 293. Peruvian Vases. (From the collection of General Alvarez. Ewbank.) The vase before referred to, from Cuzco (111. 289), is another portraitof the same person, with the same scar on the cheek. If these vases be in-deed portraits of a man who lived in 1582, it is greatly to be lamentedthat we have…
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