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Title: The industrial arts in Spain
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Riaño, Juan F. (Juan Facundo), 1829-1901
Subjects: Decorative arts Pottery
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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e examples in the local museums of Toledoand Cordova; the font of the church of San Salvador, Toledo,belongs also to the same pottery. The brim of a well, at theSouth Kensington Museum, No. 1763-71, is of the samemanufacture. It was bought at Toledo for three guineasat a shoemakers shop. It is made of glazed white and greenearthenware, with ornamental Cufic characters in high relief allround, which appear to be of the 14th century (see woodcut onnext page). The inscription, which is repeated, is imperfect, andall that I can decipher are the words : The power, the excellence, and the peace. There is no difficulty in affirming that this form of earthenwarewas made at Toledo, for Marineo Siculo, in his interesting volume i66 SPANISH INDUSTRIAL ART. treating of De las Cosas Memorables de Espafia, Alcala, 1539,says, much coarse green and white pottery is made at Toledo. The manufacture of tiles, as was the case with so many otherindustries in Spain, was imported by the Arabs. In the Middle
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BRIM OF WELL FROM TOLEDO. SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM. Ages it attained great importance, and has never ceased in Spainup to the present day. The earliest tiles (azulejos) made in Spainare composed of small pieces let into the wall, forming geometricalpatterns. The proceeding is similar to that employed by theworkers of Byzantine mosaic,—tile decoration undoubtedly tookthe place of this mosaic work in Moorish buildings. It is difficultto fix the precise period when they were first made, but it musthave been posterior to the loth century, when Moorish architectureunderwent a radical change in its system of decoration. The POTTERY AND PORCELAIN. 167 oldest tiles which exist in Spain are at the Palace of the Alhambra,Granada. They belong to the 14th century. The great varietyof their design may be seen in Owen Jones Plans and eleva-tions of the Alhambra, London, fol. 1842, and the fine workpublished by the Spanish government, Monumentos Arquitec-tonicos. We can judge of the style adopted b

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