2-756-647 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Italian Renaissance polychrome ceramics, (1898). Examples of painted faïence: 'Figs 1, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15: Wainscot-plates on the staircase-walls of the house Nr. 26 in Via Luccoli at Genoa. Figs 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 10: The same in the house Nr. 10 in Via S. Matteo ibid. Figs 16 and 17: Floor-plates from San Petronio at Bologna...In the manufacture of such tile-floors and wainscot-plates, the school of Della Robbia attained special celebrity, wherefore such plate-mosaics are frequently registered under the name of "Robbian ware".'. Plate 46 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898]