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albarello artistic belly expanding upwards black on white blue on white bowl British Museum Byzantine Cairo mounds ceramic art Chinese porcelain curved sides cylindrical Damascus decoration deep blue diminishing neck Don G. I. drawn in black early Renaissance pottery Egypt evidence excavations faïence Feridoon Foot curved outwards Fortnum fragments G. I. de Osma Graffito ornament Henry Wallis Hispano-Moresque Hollowed foot horizontal bands black illustrations in colour Italy lustre and deep lustre on white Maiolica Musée du Louvre Myrina objects Oriental influence Oriental pottery Ornament drawn Ornament painted painted in black painted in blue painted in deep painted in golden period Persian probably projecting lip Shah Nameh Similar in technique slightly concave Small foot so-called Rhodian South Kensington Museum Spanish Spanish-Moorish Syrian technique to fig thickening at foot tiles tin glaze turquoise vitreous glaze vessels vitreous glaze dropping WALL-TILES White body white ground Whitish body writer XIVth XVth Century Zohak
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Page xiii - It would be beyond the scope of the present work to discuss the...
Page xxvi - Senor Don GI de Osma (fig. 42), furnishes an early date, which, according to its owner, is between May 1408 and November 1417. Those who know the original will remember that it is no less remarkable for the quality of its golden lustre (translated by photography into black in our illustration) than for the grace and elegance of its fanciful Oriental design.
Page xxvi - Century is of the scantiest. So far as the writer can learn, there is no known example of Spanish lustre pottery antecedent to those in the class to which the large Palermo jar (fig. 37) belongs, and they are not likely to be much earlier than the end of the XlVth Century.