Pottery and procelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 (1878)
Elliott, Charles Wyllys, 1817-1883 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 153
ROUEN POTTERY. 145 works, about 1789 or 1790, some eighteen extensive fabriques were in active work. The variety of articles made at Rouen was very great, ranging from salt-cellars and candlesticks to mantel-pieces and stoves. The paste of the Rouen faience is stronger than that of Delft, and … Fig. 84. — Rouen Faience. the pieces I have seen show a reddish clay through the breaks of the enamel. Many of the paintings indicate much taste and skill. It seems to me that this work is marked by more originality, and by a finer per- ception of the fit and the beautiful, than any other French…
Pottery
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