Pottery and Porcelain of All Times and NationsHarper & Brothers, 1879 - 531 oldal |
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47. oldal - Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
403. oldal - We could not account for it until a deafand-dumb man in our employment detected him running his knife around each handle as he placed them in the kiln. "At another time every piece of china had to be broken before it could be taken out of the seggar. We always washed the round O's— the article in which the china was placed in the kiln — with silex, but this man had washed them with feldspar, which, of course, melted, and fastened every article to the bottom ; but William discharged him, and we...
109. oldal - ... in the museum of Chinese porcelain purchased in Persia. It is unnecessary to enter into any discussion regarding the different kinds of porcelain represented in the collection, although a few remarks as to the age of the objects and as to how they found their way to Persia may not be out of place. Before the discovery of the passage to the east round the cape of Good Hope, the trade from India and China passed either overland through central Asia, or by way of the Persian gulf, to Europe ; Persia...