This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...improved more recently as far as the body is concerned; the designs and the careful execution of the pierced work could scarcely be more perfect, though Mr. G. Owen's modern gems are truly masterpieces. Some pieces of the most elaborate lace drapery in ceramic art have brought great credit to the name ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...improved more recently as far as the body is concerned; the designs and the careful execution of the pierced work could scarcely be more perfect, though Mr. G. Owen's modern gems are truly masterpieces. Some pieces of the most elaborate lace drapery in ceramic art have brought great credit to the name of Grainger, with whose name is also associated a material which, as opalite, was remarkably effective as a fine vitrifiable body for embossed tiles for house decoration. Still one more factory was absorbed, a factory in which the potting was, in the opinion of those best qualified to judge, a real triumph of the potter's art, though commercially it was not successful. In July 1905 the Worcester Royal Porcelain Company acquired the business of Messrs. James Hadley and Sons, Limited, Worcester. Mr. James Hadley (who for many years was chief modeller at the Royal Porcelain Works) opened premises in 1896 for the manufacture of the ware now known as "Hadley Ware." The leading characteristic of this ware was first obtained by means of an extensive use of coloured clays in the raised ornamentation of the vases, etc., combined with either monochrome or conventional paintings. Latterly, without losing the distinctive qualities of the ware, the severity of this early style has gradually given way to a less conventional one; and for much of the coloured clay work there is now substituted various decorative schemes in enamel colours and gold, with fully naturalistic treatment both as regards colour and composition for the subject paintings, thus supplying the artists with a much wider field of work than obtained during the earlier periods of this ware. Possibly you may have come to the conclusion that ornamental and costly china only is...
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Add this copy of Nineteenth-Century English Ceramic Art to cart. $16.00, fair condition, Sold by Jonathan Grobe Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Deep River, IA, UNITED STATES, published 1911 by Little, Brown and Company.
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Fair with no dust jacket. Exlibrary with usual library markings. Substantial cover wear. Taped around spine with typed label. Repaired hinges. An unattractive volume (although adequate reading copy).; 534 pages.
Add this copy of Nineteenth-Century English Ceramic Art to cart. $31.47, good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1911 by Little, Brown and Company.
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VG-(Moderate edge wear to paper dust jacket; light foxing to edges of book block; some ownership marks on opening pages; text page surfaces are crisp and clean. ) Blue-gray embossed cloth with gilt letters on spine & front cover and additional black decoration; gray paper dust jacket. 534 pp., profusely illustrated in bw, and a color frontispiece. "There are many books on English pottery and porcelain which treat of old ceramic art, but there are very few which deal with the later work of the nineteenth century, which show the special wares of the Victorian period and those of our own times, and which record the development of potteries whose oldest products are modern. Hence this book, which is an endeavour to do some justice to the descendants of the eighteenth-century potters, will at the same time recognise the talents of men who have moved along on independent lines, working out ideas which are characteristic of their wares." (intro).
Add this copy of Nineteenth-Century English Ceramic Art to cart. $52.53, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Nabu Press.
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Add this copy of Nineteenth-Century English Ceramic Art (in Original to cart. $75.00, like new condition, Sold by Old Book Shop of Bordentown rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bordentown, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1911 by Little, Brown & Co.
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Fine in very good jacket. First American edition. Decorated grey cloth lettered in gilt; 534 pp. with index. Color frontispiece and over 1200 examples illusrated in half-tone photographs and line drawings. A tight, brigh, fine example, slightly bumped at foot of spine. In the very uncommon printed dust wrapper, very good. A very handsome example indeed.
