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About one hundred specimens of pottery — some of them very 

 valuable — had been loaned by Messrs. J. A. Skinner & Co., A. T. 

 Wood, Esq., and the lecturer, who described when and where 

 each typical specimen was made and how decorated. Several speci- 

 mens were shown, illustrating an absence of true taste, both on the 

 part of the producer and purchaser — for example, a jug in the form 

 of a fish — who could drink water from the stomach of such a mon- 

 ster without fancying there might be either a nauseous taste or smell 

 with it ? Also a pitcher made like a wicker basket — whattle work 

 has its use, but is out of keeping when made of brittle pottery, and 

 pottery, too, to hold fluid. 



The process of printing on pottery was then minutely described, 

 also painting over and under glaze, gilding and burnishing, sgraffitto, 

 etc. 



The most interesting part of the lecture has, of necessity, to 

 be omitted from this abstract, as it would be unintelligible without 

 chromolithographic illustrations. 



