Lead glazed potteryPart first (common clays): plain glazed, sgraffito and slip-decorated wares . g. GERMANY. Just when slip-decorated pottery was first made in Germany isa matter of conjecture, but it is believed that the art of true slipdecoration antedated the sgraffito style of ornamentation in theValley of the Rhine by many years, being firmly established fullyas early as the end of the sixteenth century, or soon after the in-troduction of the tulip into that country. This flower, a native ofthe shores of the Mediterranean, in the Levant, or that region tothe east of Italy, extending into
Lead glazed potteryPart first (common clays): plain glazed, sgraffito and slip-decorated wares . g. GERMANY. Just when slip-decorated pottery was first made in Germany isa matter of conjecture, but it is believed that the art of true slipdecoration antedated the sgraffito style of ornamentation in theValley of the Rhine by many years, being firmly established fullyas early as the end of the sixteenth century, or soon after the in-troduction of the tulip into that country. This flower, a native ofthe shores of the Mediterranean, in the Levant, or that region tothe east of Italy, extending into Turkey and Persia, is said to havebeen brought from Constantinople to Augsburg by Konrad vonGesner, a noted botanist and zoologist of Switzerland, in the year1559, where it soon came into popular favor. In the seventeenthcentury the cultivation of this plant developed in Holland to suchan extent that it became one of the most remarkable horticulturalmanias of the worlds history, and fabulous prices were frequently * South Kenzington Handbook on Maiolica, by C. Drury E. Fortnum, ,p. 26. slip-Decorated Dish (15 inches). German, 1(329. Museum No. 05-^42.
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