Staffordshire Pottery European Porcelain And Miscellaneous Objects Of Art

Author : Anderson Galleries
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781396608810
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Staffordshire Pottery European Porcelain and Miscellaneous Objects of Art Collected by the Late Thomas E. H. Curtis to Be Sold by the Direction of H. Louise Curtis written by Anderson Galleries and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Staffordshire Pottery European Porcelain and Miscellaneous Objects of Art Collected by the Late Thomas E. H. Curtis to Be Sold by the Direction of H. Louise Curtis: To Be Sold Tuesday Afternoon, April 22nd The present catalogue of miscellaneous objects of art, is partien larly interesting on account of the rich collection of Historical Staffordshire plates which it contains. These modest plates so characteristic of American life in the first half of the Nineteenth Century bring us back to the days when the Marquis de Lafayette was still alive: they show the castle in France where he was born and the scenes of grateful enthusiasm when he landed again on America's shores in 1824 as the guest of the nation. They depict the sites and views of olden days in the series of Beautiful America and they commemorate the political convictions and the practical wisdom of bygone days in many striking sentences, among which Benjamin Franklin's proverbs take the first place. For years there has been great interest, particularly in America, in these simple Staffordshire wares. The classic book on the subject is the anglo-american Pottery by Edwin Atlee Barber, Phila delphia, 1901. He published an all but complete catalogue of the Staffordshire Pottery to which we refer in our catalogue. Other books on the subject are The Old China Book by N. Hudson Moore, New York, 1903; The blue-china Book by Ada Walker Gamehl, New York, 1916, and English Earthenware and Stoneware by William Burton, London, 1904. 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.