Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Hispano-Moresque Ware of the Fifteenth Century: Supplementary Studies and Some Later Examples
The rarity of certain examples and the absorbing interest of the problems connected with others must be urged in excuse of the lengthier descriptions in which the writer has indulged h1mse1f upon this occasion. Spain's lustred pottery is as rich ln aspeéts and associa tions worthy of study as are the ceramics of antiquity, of mediaeval and renaissance Italy, or any raised from the ordinary level by an unusual combination of artistic, technical and historical qualities. That the pottery of the Valencian region was thus pre-eminent can hardly be gainsaid. The eastern technique which there attained perfection, united with forms and decorative devices, some European and some Oriental, in the production of vessels endowed with that medieval majesty of aspect, beside which all but the ware called Rhodian or some early Italian albarello with its lambent acanthi, appear tawdry, or pale or overcharged.
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