... coloring is commonplace, not to say disagreeable even; blue, crude opaque yellow, and orange tints, and bright verdigris green, are the dominant hues, and are scattered over the pieces in full, unbroken masses, the yellow especially meeting the eye... The Encyclopedia of Ceramics - Page 2261902 - 673 pagesFull view - About this book
| South Kensington Museum - Art - 1863 - 796 pages
...Ovid. Xanto's execution, although dexterous, is monotonous and mechanical ; his scale of colouring is crude and positive, full of violent oppositions...brightness of aspect ; in every other respect his colouring is commonplace, not to say disagreeable even ; blue, crude opaque yellow and orange tints,... | |
| South Kensington Museum, Charles Drury Edward Fortnum - Majolica - 1872 - 936 pages
...monotonous and mechanical ; his fcale of colouring is crude and pofitive, full of violent oppofitions ; the only merit, if merit it be, being that of a certain force and brightnefs of afpeit ; in evenother refpedl his colouring is commonplace, not to fay difagreeable even... | |
| South Kensington Museum, Charles Drury Edward Fortnum - Majolica - 1875 - 220 pages
...subjects. Xanto's execution, although dexterous, is monotonous and mechanical ; his scale of colouring is crude and positive, full of violent oppositions...brightness of aspect ; in every other respect his colouring is commonplace, not to say disagreeable even ; blue, crude opaque yellow, and orange tints,... | |
| Charles Drury Edward Fortnum - Majolica - 1876 - 212 pages
...subjects. Xanto's execution, although dexterous, is monotonous and mechanical ; his scale of colouring is crude and positive, full of violent oppositions...brightness of aspect ; in every other respect his colouring is commonplace, not to say disagreeable even; blue, crude opaque yellow, and orange tints,... | |
| Charles Wyllys Elliott - Porcelain - 1878 - 374 pages
...the scholars of Raffaelle. His designs are generally from classical or mythological subjects. Xante's execution, although dexterous, is monotonous and mechanical...crude opaque yellow, and orange tints, and bright verdigris green, are the dominant hues, and are scattered over the pieces in full, unbroken masses,... | |
| William Cowper Prime - Pottery - 1878 - 660 pages
...different characters. * * * His designs are generally from classical or mythological subjects. Xante's execution, although dexterous, is monotonous and mechanical....coloring is commonplace, not to say disagreeable even." We have quoted Mr. Robinson thus, for the sake of illustrating to our readers the fact, always to be... | |
| William Cowper Prime - Pottery - 1878 - 548 pages
...Xante's execution, although dexterous, is monotonous and mechanical. His scale of coloring is crude ami positive, full of violent oppositions ; the only merit,...and brightness of aspect : in every other respect hit. coloring is commonplace, not to say disagreeable even.'' Hence the standards of merit are not... | |
| William Cowper Prime - Pottery - 1879 - 552 pages
...widely different, characters. * * * His designs are generally from classical or mythological subjects. Xanto's execution, although dexterous, is monotonous...coloring is commonplace, not to say disagreeable even." Hence the standards of merit are not established, as in sculpture and painting, by the verdict of the... | |
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