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Volltext: 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. 
CERAMIC ART AT THE VIENNA EXPOSITION. 
By WILLIAM P. BLAKE. 
I. General Stjrvey. 
The potter’s art, one of the most ancient and the most 
universal of all, connects itself on the one hand with geology 
and chemistry, and on the other with painting and sculpture. 
It is the outgrowth of one of tho primal necessities of mau’s 
existence,—the preparation and distribution of food,—and 
is thus intimately identified with domestic and social life. 
Its productions, though so fragile, are perhaps the most en- 
during of man’s handiwork. The objects that have outlived 
history are to be viewed not only as specimens of the condi 
tion of the art at the time of their productiou, but as expo- 
nents of the habits, the domestic life, and the festhetics of 
races long since passed away. There is no other material 
which can be so readily impressed with the conception of the 
artist as "clay in the hands of the potter.” 
Progress and Capacity of the Akt. 
Such an art should progress measurably in the same ratio 
as civilization. That it has so progressed is evident to all 
who saw its representation in the halls of the great Exhibi 
tion at Vienna in 1873. The most general and striking im- 
pression produced by a systematic survey of what was shown 
there, was the vitality of the art and the high degree of 
excellence it has reached, not only in one or two countries, 
but in many. The rapid progress in the manufacture of por- 
celain and earthenware in several countries since the com- 
mencement of the era of industrial exhibitions, shows the 
capacity of the art for development in any country. Excel 
lence is by no means confined to any section or to any special
	        
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