Author: William Cowper Prime
Publisher: New York : Harper
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Category : Pottery
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Pottery is the oldest, the longest, the most widely diffused of human arts. Its recorded history begins with the building of Babel; and great cities in all ages, notably all great American cities, are vast structures of pottery. It is its own historian.--pg. 2.
Author: William Cowper Prime
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528254717
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Excerpt from Pottery and Porcelain of All Times and Nations: With Tables of Factory and Artists Marks for the Use of Collectors Bohn (h. Guide to the Knowledge of Pottery and Porcelain, and Other Objects of Virtu. Lon don, 1857. [a catalogue of the Bernal-collection sale, with prices, and an appendix by Mr. Bohn, himself an extensive collector. Valuable as a reference for prices.] binns (r. A Century of Potting in Worcester. London, 1865. [a new and enlarged edition, with additional plates, 1877. Large paper copies, with impressions from copperplates used for transfer-printing at Worcester and Caughley. A complete history of Worcester porcelain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: William Cowper Prime
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330387665
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Excerpt from Pottery and Porcelain of All Times and Nations: With Tables of Factory and Artists Marks for the Use of Collectors Ten years ago there were probably not ten collectors of Pottery and Porcelain in the United States. To-day there are perhaps ten thousand. The exhibition in public museums of the fine works of ceramic art loaned by the few collectors who possessed them, revealed for the first time to the American public the wealth of beauty which is in "old china;" and now in nearly every city, town, and village in the land more or less persons are "collecting." The need of a book of the kind which I have endeavored to make has been manifest for some time. What to collect and why, how to collect and classify, are questions asked by many, and answered only by European works, in French and English, which indeed answer the questions better than this does, but are unfortunately inaccessible to the American collector outside of our larger cities. The preparation of the needed Volume has not been a voluntary undertaking with me. It was with extreme reluctance that I yielded to the urgent request of the publishers to make a book on Ceramic Art for American readers, students, and collectors. The very idea of a book for these three classes of people might well appall an author, looking at the vast extent of the subject. Those who are familiar with the art will appreciate the impossibility of bringing into one volume even a condensed sketch of its history for the general reader, much more a critical examination of its products for the student, and a descriptive account of characteristics and marks for the use of the collector. For this art is the oldest, the longest, the most widely diffused of all human arts. It has been used by every tribe of man, savage and civilized. Probably the first fire which Adam kindled on a clay soil taught him to make earthenware, and his descendants have ever since used the art he discovered. Its known history begins with the brickmakers on the plain of Shinar, and every year of this nineteenth century after Christ adds material for new pages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: William Cowper Prime
Publisher: Andesite Press
ISBN: 9781297798863
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Author: William Cowper 1825-1905 Prime
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ISBN: 9781371602314
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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Author: William Cowper Prime
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Category : Pottery
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Author: William Cowper Prime
Publisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781293648261
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Author: William Cowper Prime
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Languages : en
Pages : 531
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Author: William Cowper Prime
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Category : Pottery
Languages : en
Pages : 531
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Author: American Art Association
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Languages : en
Pages : 98
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