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Title: Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Elliott, Charles Wyllys, 1817-1883
Subjects: Pottery -- History Pottery -- Marks
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Fio. 90.—/oM-tei, The God of Contenty Pou-tai—the God of Content. He is described as corpulent, hischest uncovered, mounted upon or leaning on the wine-skin whichholds his terrestrial goods; his face, with half-closed eyes, beaming with an eternal laugh. His image, done in porcelain, is f(»und in the workshops of China,where men M-ish more than they can obtain; he allays, perhaps, butdoes not quench. This image would be most useful—at least, most TUB NAmnNG TOWER. 177 o-o-estive—if it coiild be set up in every hourse of the Western world. The Xankinc^ Tower (Fig. 07) once stood near the city of Nanking,
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Fig. 97.—r/ie Porcelain Tower at Nanking. from which city much of our finest porcelain comes. It was built withbricks or pottery, the face of which was coated with a dip or sli)) 12 178 POTTERY AND POECELAIK. of porcelain; and the wliole thing was valuable and interesting as amonument of the potters art. It is now razed to the ground, the lastdestruction Ijeing that of the Taiping rebels. The history of pottery is in a good degree the history of man.All nations have done something in this way, from the rude clay potsof the barbarians, through the gayly-painted dishes of the incijiient civ-ilization, up to the culmination of the art, when perfection seems tohave been reached in China through the centuries extending up to thesixteenth. This manufacture, which reached in China and Japan to thepoint of finest art, has not been surpassed by any civilized race, ifequaled. I am unable to do anything but admire a people whoseworkmen did and liked to do such tine and faithful work, and found

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