. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . Fig. Mb.—Sevres Vase, called Cuve Ovale Ducereau^ XIV. and XV. This, in a degree, was restored by the purer andbetter tastes of the time of Louis XVI., when there was a reactiontoward the classic in both literature and art. In Fig. 130 we have engraved a vase of the time of Louis XVI.,which indicates the improvements made at that time, l)oth in form anddecoration. It approaches the classic forms of Greece, and is a stepaway from that excessive and meretricious decoration which marked thetimes of Louis XIV.
. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . Fig. Mb.—Sevres Vase, called Cuve Ovale Ducereau^ XIV. and XV. This, in a degree, was restored by the purer andbetter tastes of the time of Louis XVI., when there was a reactiontoward the classic in both literature and art. In Fig. 130 we have engraved a vase of the time of Louis XVI.,which indicates the improvements made at that time, l)oth in form anddecoration. It approaches the classic forms of Greece, and is a stepaway from that excessive and meretricious decoration which marked thetimes of Louis XIV. and XV. It was sold at the Bernal sale, and is 266 POTTERY AND PORCELAIN. thus described : A magnificent centre vase and cover, gros Uev., \\\i\\upriglit liandles of foliage, a festoon of leaves, raised gilt, encirclingthe vase and falling over the handles, the lower part tinted with pen-dant lines of leaves; in the centre is a most exquisite painting of a. Fig. 186.—Sevres Vase. peasant and two girls gathering cherries, a donkey with panniers filledwith chernes at their side, a group of fiowers on the reverse—onsquare plinth, eighteen inches high. Sold to the Marquis of Hertfordfor eiglit hundred and seventy-one pounds ten shillings sterling (fourthousand three hundred and fiftv-five dollars). 1 have sj)()ken of the many styles of painting applied at Sevres,and also of the great carefulness and clalioratcness of the skilled body of men was called upon to contribute towardthe perfection at which they all aimed ; these were the chemists. Todevise, to combine, and to adapt many and more and more beau-tiful colors than any in use, which could be aj)plicd to porcelain andwould stand supreme heat, required the aid of science. This theclieiiiists gave; and the result has been such rich, such subtile, suchl)rilliant colors as no other manufactorv has reached. Some of these S^VUFS PORCELAm. 2G7 colors have become well ami Av
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