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the latter part of the seventeenth and in the eighteenth cen- 

 tury many celebrated factories were established. At 

 Limoges in 1733 soft porcelains were made, and later, hard 

 paste. In 1745, the potteries at Sevre were established. 

 The very celebrated old majolica pottery ware, established 

 earlier but flourishing between 1350 and 1600, originated 

 among the Moors and seems to have had its origin somewhat 

 from the Persians, but earlier than the Delft. In 1750 were 

 established the celebrated Wedgewood factories in England. 

 During the eighteenth century, or between 1700 and 1800, 

 the greatest art and industrial activity of the world was set 

 in operation in the manufacture of all various kinds of earth- 

 enware, stoneware and porcelains. The manufacture of 

 beautifully colored and shaped glass was also stimulated 

 and became with porcelains the most popular of all the arts 

 and industries. It not only supplied beautiful household 

 utensils that lifted the scale of life far above the old time of 

 wood and pewter and coarse earthenware, but had a most 

 elevating and civilizing influence all over the civilized world. 



The interest in the potter's and glassmaker's art does 

 not decline, and will not more than temporarily at times, as 

 in the past. The general development of these arts and the 

 appreciation of the finest and most beautiful examples are 

 furnishing the finest galleries of art, and bringing them 

 nearer the great artistic beauty of paintings and statuary as 

 time goes on. 



When the finest specimens of porcelain and colored in- 

 laid and murrhine glass, dating back in Babylonia and Egypt 

 to one and two centuries before the Christian era, and in- 

 cluding beautiful specimens of ancient pottery from the same 

 periods and nation; and the fine pottery and porcelains of 

 the period prior to the time of the Christian era in the 

 Chinese art, up through to within a century of the present 

 time; and the Persian potter}' from the eighth to the eigh- 

 teenth centuries; the Greek pottery and the beautifully mod- 

 elled figures of the Greeks, running from the second to the 

 sixth century before Christ; the beautiful irridescent glass 

 of the same period, from the tombs of Syria; the murrhine 

 and inlaid glass of the Romans, from the two or three cen- 

 turies prior to the Christian era, during which even fabulous 

 prices were paid for specimens of the glass maker's art; to- 

 gether with the later porcelains and the magnificent glass 

 w.-rks of the more modern times, — when these are gathered 



