Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
[England? : s.n.] · leaf 213
well applied to por-celain, and many pieces of il are obviously ofgreat age, their thickness having helped to pieserve them. It is remarkable, say- Pranks inhis catalogue, that the earliest specimen of 302 THE MAGAZINE OF ART. porcelain that can now be referred to as havingbeen brought to England… … Fig. 10.—ORIENTAL VASES. College, Oxford—is of this kind. By the Persiansand Turks it is termed Mertebani, and it is muchvalued by them as a detector of poisonous food.Specimens of this porcelain were sent to Lorenzo green celadon, which harmonises perfectly withthe colour of the gold. Three large…
