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pottery is there fabricated, from the 
coarfeft to the moft elegant kinds. The 
glazing of the latter is fine and fmooth, 
and the colours are beautiful; but there 
is ftill room for improvement in the 
forms; and the moft zealous attention is 
- difplayed in endeavours to give them that 
lighinefs of fhape, and elegance of coz- 
gour, which have hitherto given a diftin- 
guithed pre-eminence to the Englifh pot- 
tery. OLIVIER is very fuccefstul in his 
imitations ot Etrufcan vafes, as well for 
the fubitance as for the colouring. The 
veflels, framed of. a metallic earth ex- 
tracted from a mine near Paris, are light, 
bear the fire, and are ield at a moderate 
price. LIVIER prepares alfo a com- 
polition which very nearly approaches the 
4afaltes in colour, weight, folidity, and 
found. He has produced {mall carya- 
tides of that compofition, which have the 
additional merit of tafteful defign and 
juft proportions. This manufactory will 
at fome future day become, to France and 
to foreign countries, what Wedgwood’s 
formerly was before its decline. At pre- 
fent it is deftitute of the necefiary means 
to keep it in active employment. The 
works befpoken proceed flowly, for want 
of hands. 
A Scot, of the name.of O"RELLY, whe 
Sas within a few years e@ablifhed a glafy- 
manufactory, executes ail the fineft works 
that have hitherto diffinguished that 
branch in England. His glafs refembles 
the Enelith in brightnefs, polith, and clear- 
mefs: the forms areas beautiful, and the 
engraving furpafles that of the English 
gwlais. O°RELLY is one of the mef ac- 
‘complithed artiits in this laft particular ; 
and never has the art of engraving on 
giafs becn carried to a higher degree of 
perfection. He-cuts entire hiftoric fub- 
jects on vafes, cups, ewers, of the mott 
elegant antique forms; and, like the moft 
fcilful engraver, gives a finish to the 
drawing of the naked figure, to the folds 
af the drapery, and even the expreiiion 
@t the countenance. He places and 
finithes, with equal tafte in the felection 
2s lichtnefs in the execution, borders of 
‘avabeiques or of antique ornaments. 
22s produced ewers ornamented with de- 
tached figures from Herculaneum, ‘and 
with groups of dancing-women and mu- 
ficians; and vafes reprefenting Haccha- 
silfans, Fauns, Nymphs,’ and Satyrs. 
The cutting of one of tiele vaies requires 
a week’s labour, becaufe O'RELLY has 
not vet formed more than one pupii in 
that branch; of courle, they bear a cen- 
Asierable prices that of a weli-finitied 
He 
Manufactures of France. 
—[O&. 
ewer is from ten to twelve. louis-d’ors. 
The proprietor of this fine manufactory, 
which is fituate in the quarter of the In- 
valids, has confiruéted a conical melting- 
furnace on a new plan, which is fifty- 
eight feet in diameter at the hafe, and 
three hundred feet high: but he cannot 
procure workmen, 
A German, named DiL, has a poree- 
lain manufaCtory on the Boulevard du 
Temple, which rivals and even furpaffes 
that of Seve. Whatever difference exifts - 
between the produtions of thefe two ma~-' 
nufactories is decidedly im favour of the 
former, in the whitencis and iolidity of 
the compofition, the livelinefs of the co- 
ours, and the brilliancy of the gilding. 
The individual figures are extremely 
beautiful, as well as the aflemblage of 
the groups. The forms of the veffels, 
of whatever kind, are remarkable for tafte 
and-lightnefs, and tke paintings ex~- 
His extenfive warehoufes are 
richly furnifhed, and exhibit no fymp- 
toms either of a {carcity of workmen or 
awantof fale. This branch of manu- 
faGture was one’ of thofe which former! 
enjoyed peculiar privileges, and whofe 
productions were honoured with the name 
of a prince, as ** porcelain of Monfieur,”* 
«* porcelain of the count d’Artois,” &c, 
Since the abolition of the privileges en- 
joyed by the manufaCory at Seve, whick 
was condutted on the king’s account, that 
of Diut has beea confiderably enlarged, 
and carried to greater perfection, 
Another manufaGory, that heretofore 
belonged to the court, and was in a moft 
Aourifhing ftate—that of the Gobelins— 
is not at prefent in fo high activity as it 
kas been fome little time back; the 
workmen being reduced to one half their 
former number. ‘The ftore-rooms, ne- 
verthelefs, are #ill richly furnifhed witk 
beautiful tapeftries; and the works con; 
tinue to be profecuted, though not on 
the former extenfive feale; a féw looms 
cniy being empioyed in working after 
good original paintings by French ar- 
tits, and copies from thofe of the fa-- 
mous matters of the Ztalian fchool. It 
is under the direétion of the minifter for 
the home departaient. 
The tannery of SEGUIN has become fa- 
mous by the recent difcovery of a new 
mode of preparing leather, which is very 
advantageous, and extremely quick in it¢ 
operation. The uiual mode which has 
hitherto prevailed in the other tanneries 
confiits in the different procefles of pre- 
viens wathing, taking off the flefh, fwell- 
ing the leather, and tanning it. In the 
previeus 
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