. The industrial arts in Spain. owinginscription: JOSEPH GRICC^ DELINEAV ET SCUL 1763. This same date is repeated in the angles, and in some shieldsnear the roof we find, ANO 1765; probably the year the work was terminated. Antonio Conca, inhis Descrizione Odeporica della Spagna in cui spezialmente sida notizia delle cose spettanti alle Belle Arti, Parma, 1793,Vol. III., p. 310, says, II Gabineto abbelitto di porcellana dellaFabbricca del Retiro ha meritato le bodi de curiozi also find in p. 119, Un altro Gabinetto vien chiamato dellaCina pel sud principal ornata di bei putti, d
. The industrial arts in Spain. owinginscription: JOSEPH GRICC^ DELINEAV ET SCUL 1763. This same date is repeated in the angles, and in some shieldsnear the roof we find, ANO 1765; probably the year the work was terminated. Antonio Conca, inhis Descrizione Odeporica della Spagna in cui spezialmente sida notizia delle cose spettanti alle Belle Arti, Parma, 1793,Vol. III., p. 310, says, II Gabineto abbelitto di porcellana dellaFabbricca del Retiro ha meritato le bodi de curiozi also find in p. 119, Un altro Gabinetto vien chiamato dellaCina pel sud principal ornata di bei putti, di bassi relievi, e dialtre opere di porcellana della nuova Real Fabbricca del , in his Viage de Espana, Madrid, 1782, describes theroom at the Palace of Madrid, saying, it is covered withlarge plaques of porcelain made at Buen Retiro. In some arerepresented figures of children copied from models, and betweeneach compartment looking-glasses are let in. (See woodcut.)From the establishment of the manufactory in 1759 ^7. KOOM DECORATED WITH JiUEN RETIRO PORCELAIN, IN THE PALACE AT MADRID. 218 SPANISH INDUSTRIAL ART. Charles III. until 1803 the styles adopted at Capo di Monte hadbeen followed. At the beginning of this century Dn. BartolomeSureda went to Paris to learn the manner in which Sevres por-celain was made. On his return in 1803 he was appointeddirector of the works at Buen Retiro and endeavoured to imitatethe paste and brilliancy of decoration of Sevres. Two workmencame over from Paris—Victor Perche, and Vivien. Among the finest specimens of this period of the manufactoryare a splendid clock and four vases, two metres high, with porcelainflowers, which exist in one of the state rooms of the Palace ofMadrid. The vases are placed in the four corners of the clock is ornamented with large biscuit figures. A largenumber of vases exist at the royal Palaces of Madrid, Aranjuez,and Escorial, of Retiro china. They are often finely mounted ingilt bronze with mu
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