. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . e, no country, and no art, but their own; and there-fore they are in no way imitations of what has been done in France,or England, or Boston. The dark-red terra-cotta ware from Egypt was mostly in smallpieces, but was excellent in its modeling and finish; and it was satis-factory to see that it was much bought by our people. This clay,with its polished surface, is peculiar to Eg)^t; at least we see itnowhere else. This red Egyptian ware is much like the red Roman ware oftencalled Samian, which has been spok
. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . e, no country, and no art, but their own; and there-fore they are in no way imitations of what has been done in France,or England, or Boston. The dark-red terra-cotta ware from Egypt was mostly in smallpieces, but was excellent in its modeling and finish; and it was satis-factory to see that it was much bought by our people. This clay,with its polished surface, is peculiar to Eg)^t; at least we see itnowhere else. This red Egyptian ware is much like the red Roman ware oftencalled Samian, which has been spoken of in a preceding chapter. Somelarger pieces have been brought by private parties from Egypt, whichhave much merit in form, as well as in incised decoration. The Turks sent a few examples of their simple pottery, some of itunglazed, and some covered with a deep-green glaze, which were simplywhat they pretended to be. Their polychrome decoration Mas alsogood, but not so good as the Egyptian. Mexico, too, sent a small collection of this sort of work, which 66 POTTERY AXB t ^ smacked vet of tlie Aztec races, l»iit too little (jf it to be of iimcli few L^azed pot^ painted in the native fashion -wore excellent, andwere Louglit up (jiiickly, l)ecause they suggested Montezuma and hisbrown people, who have been wholly consumed by the greedy whites. COPEXIIAGEX POTTERY. (57 The belief of Sefior Alejandro Cassarin, the potter or dealer who sentfrom Mexico, evidently was that this native spontaneous potterv, whichdoubtless is yet to be found in out-ut-thc-May places, is not a thini>- tobe proud of—at least, it is not to be sent to ns; that M-hat we wantis a very poor imitation of European porcelain. Xor is such a delusionhis alone. Of terra-cotta work in red and in buff there was a e-ood show,mainly from England and Dennuirk. The clay, the modeling, and thefinish, were quite perfect in many of these. The Watcombe people, inEngland, had already reached perfection
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