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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. 
(Jemand for tkem at tke present time for the same purpose. 
An agency was establisked for tkese tiles in Boston a few 
years since, and they can now be obtained tbere at a moderate 
price. 
Yast quantities of tbe Dutch tiles were imported in Eng 
land about tbe middle of tbe last Century for fireplaces, but 
after tbe discovery of tbe metbod of transferring designs by 
printing from paper to eartbenware, about the year 1752, tbe 
manufacture of imitations commenced, and tbe demand was in 
part supplied by bome-made priuted tiles. 
Ancient Tiles—Samarcand. 
For tbe exhibition in tbe Russian section, of a suite of tbe 
curious enamelled tiles of tbe fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, 
from the mosques of Samarcand, we are indebted to tbe Museum 
of tbe Society for tbe Encouragement of Arts, at St. Peters 
burg. The specimens consisted of capitals, parts of columns 
and cornices, and of brickwork and tiles. Tbe tiles or plates 
vary in size from 8 X 10 inches to 12 incbes square, and 
12 X 16 incbes, and even larger. Tbey are heavily and 
boldly incised, so as to form tbe designs to a depth of an inch 
or more, and were evidently moulded, probably in cement or 
plaster moulds; but some parts of tbe designs, especially 
Arabic letters, are undercut, apparently by kand-trimming 
after the clay had partly dried. The designs and inscriptions 
are all remarkably sharp, and appear as if carved out. Tbe 
sections of columns are 15 to 18 incbes long, and 3 incbes in 
diameter, half round, witb raised spiral oruamentation. Tbe 
principal colors of the enamelling are dark blue, white, light 
green and a bluisb green. Light buff-colored bricks were 
combined witb short pieces of glazed torquoise blue tile set 
between tkem, producing an excellent effect. 
Frencii Tiles and Plaques. 
In the Erench Section, tbe beautiful mantel by Tb. Deck, 
Paris, and the mural tile decoration, by Callinot, were the 
chief attractions to be noticed uuder tbe bead of Tiles. 
Deck’s mantel, or ratber chimney-piece, of enamelled 
eartbenware, is formed of tiles about nine incbes square.
	        
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