Category: History - Other
The Pottery of the Stone Age.--The Lacustrine Dwellings.--Vases of the Bronze Age.--Peruvian Pottery.--Mexican Pottery.--Pottery of Western Mounds.--The Cesnola Collections.--Roman Pottery.--Saxon and Scandinavian Pottery.--The Pottery of Ancient Gaul--of Ancient Germany.....P...
The First Porcelain made here.--Bonnin and Morris.--Franklin Institute.--William Ellis Tucker.--Tucker and Hemphill.--Thomas Tucker.--General Tyndale.--Porcelain of T. C. Smith...
23. CHAPTER VI.The Word Maiolica, or Majolica.--Italian Renaissance.--The Dark Ages.--The Crusades.--The Mezza-Maiolica.--The True Maiolica.--Luca della Robbia.--Urbino.--Xanto and Fontana.--R...
27. CHAPTER X.Difficulties.--The Porcelain Tower at Nanking.--First Making of Porcelain.--Kaolin and Pe-tun-tse.--Marco Polo.--Portuguese Importation.--The City of King-te-chin.--Jacquemart's...
32. CHAPTER XV.In England, following the discovery and production of porcelain in Saxony, there sprang up a very wide interest in the art. It was not an interest which enlisted all classes the...
19. CHAPTER II.Palaces of Homer's Heroes.--The Ceramicus at Athens.--Egyptian Pottery.--Etruscan Tombs.--Good and Bad Vases.--Age of Vases.--Various Styles.--The Archaic Style.--The Fine Style...
26. CHAPTER IX.Delft, Number of Fabriques.--Haarlem.--Paste.--Great Painters.--Violins.--Tea-Services.--A Dutch Stable.--Broeck Dutch Tiles.--England.--Queen Elizabeth.--Pepys's Diary.--Brown...
29. CHAPTER XII.Dresden China.--Porcelain in Europe.--The Alchemists.--Augustus II.--Böttger.--Tschirnhaus.--Experiments.--Kaolin discovered.--Höroldt and Kändler.--Fine Art, or Decorative Art....
28. CHAPTER XI.Corean Porcelain.--Katosiro-ouye-mon.--The Province of Idsoumi.--Styles prevailing in Japan.--Marks.--Japanese Blue.--Indian Porcelain.--Dutch East India Company.--Egg-shell and...
30. CHAPTER XIII.Hard and Soft Porcelain.--Discovery of Kaolin.--St.-Cloud.--_Pâte Tendre._--Marks.--Rouen.--Small Manufactories.--Marks of same.--Chantilly.--Sceaux-Penthièvre.--Niderviller.--M...
24. CHAPTER VII.Bernard Palissy.--Over the name and fame of Palissy hangs an aureola of glory. He was a potter, and he learned his trade through much perseverance and much suffering. But, more...
22. CHAPTER V.The Arabs in Spain.--Cordova, Granada, Seville.--Enamel and Lustres.--Hispano-Moresque.--The Alhambra.--Tiles.--Vase of the Alhambra.--Malaga.--Majorca and Maiolica.--Rhodian Po...
21. CHAPTER IV.Definition of Glaze.--Varnish.--Enamel in Egypt, Babylon.--The Arabs and the Moors.--Grès de Flandre.--Cologne, Regensburg, Baireuth, Neuwied, Grenzhausen, Coblentz.--Holland.--...
31. CHAPTER XIV.Florentine, or Medicean.--Is it a True Porcelain?--The House of Medici.--Marks.--Doccia Porcelain.--The Marquis Ginori.--Beccheroni.--Present Work.--Marks.--Venice.--Vezzi.--Coz...
25. CHAPTER VIII.I now propose to give some account of the most prominent among the very large number of potteries which, in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, sprang up in va...
33. CHAPTER XVI.Holland and Belgium.--Oriental Trade.--Weesp.--Marks.--Loosdrecht.--Amstel, Old and New.--Marks.--The Hague.--Marks.--Lille.--Mark.--Tournay. --Marks.--Sweden.--Gustavus Adolphu...
18. CHAPTER I.The Pottery of the Stone Age.--The Lacustrine Dwellings.--Vases of the Bronze Age.--Peruvian Pottery.--Mexican Pottery.--Pottery of Western Mounds.--The Cesnola Collections.--Ro...
20. CHAPTER III.The reports of the judges have not yet appeared, so that we do not and cannot know what their awards may be. But as so many persons who saw and judged for themselves may never s...
12. CHAPTER XII.Dresden China.--Porcelain in Europe.--The Alchemists.--Augustus II.--Böttger.--Tschirnhaus.--Experiments.--Kaolin discovered.--Höroldt and Kändler.--Fine Art, or Decorative Art....
17. CHAPTER XVII.The First Porcelain made here.--Bonnin and Morris.--Franklin Institute.--William Ellis Tucker.--Tucker and Hemphill.--Thomas Tucker.--General Tyndale.--Porcelain of T. C. Smith...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Hard and Soft Porcelain.--Discovery of Kaolin.--St.-Cloud.--_Pâte Tendre._--Marks.--Rouen.--Small Manufactories.--Marks of same.--Chantilly.--Scéaux-Penthièvre.--Niderviller.--M...
2. CHAPTER II.Palaces of Homer's Heroes.--The Ceramicus at Athens.--Egyptian Pottery.--Etruscan Tombs.--Good and Bad Vases.--Age of Vases.--Various Styles.--The Archaic Style.--The Fine Style...
6. CHAPTER VI.The Word Maiolica, or Majolica.--Italian Renaissance.--The Dark Ages.--The Crusades.--The Mezza-Maiolica.--The True Maiolica.--Luca della Robbia.--Urbino.--Xanto and Fontana.--R...
16. CHAPTER XVI.Holland and Belgium.--Oriental Trade.--Weesp.--Marks.--Loosdrecht.--Amstel, Old and New.--Marks.--The Hague.--Marks.--Lille.--Mark.--Tournay.--Marks.--Sweden.--Gustavus Adolphus...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Florentine, or Medicean.--Is it a True Porcelain?--The House of Medici.--Marks.--Doccia Porcelain.--The MarquisGinori.--Beccheroni.--Present Work.--Marks.--Venice.--Vezzi.--Cozz...
9. CHAPTER IX.Delft, Number of Fabriques.--Haarlem.--Paste.--Great Painters.--Violins.--Tea-Services.--A Dutch Stable.--Broeck Dutch Tiles.--England.--Queen Elizabeth.--Pepys's Diary.--Brown...
4. CHAPTER IV.Definition of Glaze.--Varnish.--Enamel in Egypt, Babylon.--The Arabs and the Moors.--Grès de Flandre.--Cologne, Regensburg, Baireuth, Neuwied, Grenzhausen, Coblentz.--Holland.--...
10. CHAPTER X.Difficulties.--The Porcelain Tower at Nanking.--First Making of Porcelain.--Kaolin and Pe-tun-tse.--Marco Polo.--Portuguese Importation.--The City of King-te-chin.--Jacquemart's...
5. CHAPTER V.The Arabs in Spain.--Cordova, Granada, Seville.--Enamel and Lustres.--Hispano-Moresque.--The Alhambra.--Tiles.--Vase of the Alhambra.--Malaga.--Majorca and Maiolica.--Rhodian Po...
1. CHAPTER I.The Pottery of the Stone Age.--The Lacustrine Dwellings.--Vases of the Bronze Age.--Peruvian Pottery.--Mexican Pottery.--Pottery of Western Mounds.--The Cesnola Collections.--Ro...
11. CHAPTER XI.Corean Porcelain.--Katosiro-ouye-mon.--The Province of Idsoumi.--Styles prevailing in Japan.--Marks.--Japanese Blue.--Indian Porcelain.--Dutch East India Company.--Egg-shell and...
8. CHAPTER VIII.15. CHAPTER XV.7. CHAPTER VII.3. CHAPTER III.