A manual of pottery and porcelain for American collectors . h the Oriental products, and find a market fortheir wares far below the price of those which were im-ported. Among the varieties of articles produced in Hol-land, tile-work seems to have been most extensivelypatronized, and these were decorated mostly in mono-chrome of blue or brown, with scriptural subjects ; indeed,an old Dutch mantel-piece was a sort of illustrated familybible; its quaint and curious pictures might both attractthe eye and lead the mind. Vases seem to have excited less admiration ; at leastthey are fewer in number,
A manual of pottery and porcelain for American collectors . h the Oriental products, and find a market fortheir wares far below the price of those which were im-ported. Among the varieties of articles produced in Hol-land, tile-work seems to have been most extensivelypatronized, and these were decorated mostly in mono-chrome of blue or brown, with scriptural subjects ; indeed,an old Dutch mantel-piece was a sort of illustrated familybible; its quaint and curious pictures might both attractthe eye and lead the mind. Vases seem to have excited less admiration ; at leastthey are fewer in number, although not entirely wantingin beauty. The ware made at Delft during the sixteenth century * From Delft, England and India, came most of the blue ware whichwe find in America. The blue decoration was a common favorite with all. QO HISTORY OF POTTERY. was marked with an R, crossed by a sword; after thatperiod no mark was affixed. A manufactory, estabhshed in the latter part of theeighteenth century, at Amsterdam, is distinguished by acock painted in No. 18.—A Piss Head op Dblpt Waeb.(Purple enamel, surmounted by a morning-glory in polychrome.) The number of specimens of Delft ware extant is verygreat—especially the plates, are frequently met with, andeasily procurable. Many of these bear initials and mono-grams with dates, and were probably made for private use,as facility and cheapness was a character which is infre-quently met among the pottery manufactories of thoseearly days. ENGLISH POTTERY. After a long sojourn among countries which use lan-guages strange to us, it is pleasant at last to arrive wherewe may feel at home,—among the English people,—where both literature and acquaintance, to say noth-ing of like sympathies, will aid us vastly in our journey-ings through the world of fictilia. Archaeological study has a peculiar fascination for theEnglish student, consequently her research and its resultsare more extensive than those of any other nation; be-twee
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