. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . FiG. IS.—Large Oval Dish, from the Museum qf ike Louvre. posed to be confined to the wares of Palissy. These were the use ofshells, lizards, snakes, fish, frogs, insects, and plants, in high-relief uponthe surface of his plates and dishes. This will be shown in the exam-ple we give (Fig. 73), which is one of the finest pieces of this workextant, now in the museum of the Louvre. And even this is nowbelieved by some competent experts to be of modern manufacture. -jOs; PorrERY AXI> PORCELAIX. TliLSc natural
. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . FiG. IS.—Large Oval Dish, from the Museum qf ike Louvre. posed to be confined to the wares of Palissy. These were the use ofshells, lizards, snakes, fish, frogs, insects, and plants, in high-relief uponthe surface of his plates and dishes. This will be shown in the exam-ple we give (Fig. 73), which is one of the finest pieces of this workextant, now in the museum of the Louvre. And even this is nowbelieved by some competent experts to be of modern manufacture. -jOs; PorrERY AXI> PORCELAIX. TliLSc natural objcets were inodeled with consi(leral)le cnre, and col-ored t<» represent the real things, so that they have a value to thenaturaliiJt as well as to the j»ottcr. As Works of ceramic art, can we accord them a high rank, or can. Fig. 74.—Ialixsy Pish. we get much satisfaction in their contemplation ? Can we accept themas o/f at all ^ .\dmit tlicm to l)e clever imitations—and that is all,it seems to me, we can do—and they fall to the place of ]irettiness,and rank with wax-tlowers and alahaster-applcs.
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