On colour, and on the necessity for a general diffusion of taste among all classes . cases. A want of this faculty has led to the numerousdeformities daily exhibited and admired both in France andin this country; and the prices they command have unfor-tunately given them an importance they ought never to haveobtained. By this means the whimsical, the misshapen, andthe meretricious, have elicited praise instead of censure; theeyes of many have become reconciled to the bad till theyno longer appreciate the good; and some of the costly speci-mens of Sevres porcelain have done more injury to thisp
On colour, and on the necessity for a general diffusion of taste among all classes . cases. A want of this faculty has led to the numerousdeformities daily exhibited and admired both in France andin this country; and the prices they command have unfor-tunately given them an importance they ought never to haveobtained. By this means the whimsical, the misshapen, andthe meretricious, have elicited praise instead of censure; theeyes of many have become reconciled to the bad till theyno longer appreciate the good; and some of the costly speci-mens of Sevres porcelain have done more injury to thisparticular branch of taste than the most ordinary productionsof the humblest potter. It will therefore be pertinent tothe present question to compare the graceful forms of theGreek vases here given with some of those of Sevres andother modern manufacture; and any one not entirely desti-tute of correct perception will at once acknowledge thedifference of their claims. * See woodcut 19 ; and also the two tonus of figs 8 and \K woodcut 24. 252 ON TASTE IN ORNAMENTAL DESIGN. Part
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