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 85
ous, flowers filled the halls with perfume; statues ofsnowy marble, the works of artists whose fame is enduring, paintings byZeuxis and Apelles, looked down on the scene. All that the most refinedcivilization could invent surrounded him. We are but poor and far-offimitators of the luxury and… … ceramic history, is that all standards of beauty in color as in everythingelse are arbitrary. The time may and probably will come in the future when another civilization will look with wonderat our standards in music, painting, clothing, col-or, at our tastes in many arts, and regard themas more…
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