English And Continental Porcelain PDF Download

Excerpt from A Short Description of the English and Continental Porcelain: Exhibited June 1873 In 1756 the manufactory was removed to Sevres, and in 1760 passed entirely into the hands of the king, who issued a decree forbidding any porcelain manufactory in France, except Sevres, the use of gold in the decoration and as none but the first artists both in painting and decoration were employed, the specimens manufactured between 1760 and 1770 were exceedingly costly and of great beauty and rarity. 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.