. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . eused. The best work was made during the latter part of the last century,when a style of decoration of liurnishod gold in lelief upon dead gold VIENNA PORCELAIN. 247 was used, which is now much prized. The work went on, with vary-ing success and at great cost, till 1856, Mhen it was given of the pieces at the Bernal sale were as follows: A plate with green border and wliite stars, with £2 Is. $10 50 One with brown and gold border, with flowers \ \s. 5 00 A plate with lilac border, and frie
. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . eused. The best work was made during the latter part of the last century,when a style of decoration of liurnishod gold in lelief upon dead gold VIENNA PORCELAIN. 247 was used, which is now much prized. The work went on, with vary-ing success and at great cost, till 1856, Mhen it was given of the pieces at the Bernal sale were as follows: A plate with green border and wliite stars, with £2 Is. $10 50 One with brown and gold border, with flowers \ \s. 5 00 A plate with lilac border, and friezes, from gems in Indian-ink 37 16s. 189 00 A cup and saucer, beautifully painted, with Venus and Cupid, after Sir Joshua Reynolds 8 15s. 44 00 The teapot and cup and saucer in Fig. 131 are Vienna work, andare excellent examples both of paste and coloring. The three lower pieces in Fig. 131 are Hungarian; the bowl andsugar-bowl are highly colored, and are veiy Oriental in both color anddecoration. The plate with fish is a direct imitation of the Chinese. Marks for Vienna porcelain:. Hungary.—Toward the end of the last century a porcelain-factorywas at work in Ilerend, at which porcelain of an Oriental characterand much richness was made. This was doubtless intended for theTurkish and Asiatic markets. A piece bought in Ispahan, as Oriental,is now pronounced to l)e Ilerend, and was purchased by the SouthKensington Museum in 1S03. Some pieces figured on the lower line of the engraving (Fig. 131)show the Oriental character of the decorations, but not the bright andrich colors. The word Ilerend is found impressed on the ware; sometimesin incised letters. In 1839 Fischer established a porcelain-manufactory, which, I believe,is still at work. Sometimes he used the shield of the arms of Aus- 248 POTTERY AND PORCELAIN. tria for a mark, and at others his owu initials, jyf (Morris Fischer),combined. HocirsT (or Mayence) Porcelain—Hard Paste.—Mayence, or Mainz,was once a small state
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