I tre libri dell'arte del vasajo, nei quali si tratta non solo la pratica, ma brevemente tutti i secreti di essa, con che persino al di' oggi è stata sempre tenuta ascosta

Piccolpasso, Cipriano, 1524-1579, author · 1857 · Roma : Dallo Stabilimento tipografico, via del Corso num. 387 · 29 pictures

Cipriano Piccolpasso's 1857 Roman reprint of his sixteenth-century treatise on the potter's art, written for working maiolica potters in central Italy, sets out the craft's techniques and secrets. The pictures are engraved ornament and pattern studies: scrolling acanthus leaves, interlaced ribbon knotwork, and a landscape with a building, showing decorative motifs a designer could adapt for surface pattern and ceramic borders.

Pottery -- Technique -- Early works to 1800 · Pottery, Italian -- Italy, Central -- 16th century -- Early works to 1800 · Majolica, Italian -- Technique -- Early works to 1800 · Pottery

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