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Full text: Ceramic art : a report on pottery, porcelain, tiles, terracotta and brick, with a table of marks and monograms ...

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EXPOSITION AT VIENNA. 
The arched entrances to the Vienna buildings, leading into 
the interior courts, affbrd suitable places on either side, in 
niches, for groups of 
statuary. These are 
supplied in part by this 
establishment. A draw- 
ing of one out of an 
inimitable group of four 
pieces is he re given. 
They represent com 
merce and manufac- 
tures, gardening and 
agriculture, Science and 
art, huutiug and fish 
ing. The height of 
each piece is three feet 
five inches; breadth, 
two feet five inches; 
and depth, one foot four 
inches. 
The terra-cotta productions of this establishment are to 
be secn not only in the principal public buildings and pal- 
aces of Vienna, bat abound in Prague, Pesth, in Athens, 
Smyrna and Bucharest. They are exported to Germany, 
Switzerlaud, Italy, Russin, Turkey, Asia and America. 
In this brauch of their business the Company employ 
three hundred and fifty workmeu, and four large burning 
ovens twenty-two feet in diameter for the large pieces of 
terra-cotta wäre, besides smaller ovens and mufiles for 
burning-in the colors of the majolica wäre. 
The Company have two extensive depots for their goods 
in Vienna, besides a stock of samples for exhibition in the 
lower story of the engineer’s and architect’s building. 
The transportation from the works is by railways, canals, 
and common roads. There are also local tramways, upon 
which horses are used. There are about nine hundred 
horses belonging to the Company.
	        
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