The Word Maiolica, or Majolica.--Italian Renaissance.--The Dark Ages.--The Crusades.--The Mezza-Maiolica.--The True Maiolica.--Luca della Robbia.--Urbino.--Xanto and Fontana.--Raffaelesque Ware.--Mr. Fortnum.--Prices to-day.--Gubbio.--Maestro Giorgio.--The Lustres.--Castel-Durante.--Faenza.--The Sgraffito.--Forli, Venice, Castelli, etc.--Castellani.--Maiolicas at the Centennial.....95 CHAPTER VII. FRENCH FAIENCE.--PALISSY WARE, AND HENRI-DEUX WARE. Bernard Palissy.--The Catholics and the Huguenots.--Saintes.--Figurines.--The Centennial Exhibition.--Prices.--Henri-Deux--where made--when.--Copies at Philadelphia.--List of Pieces extant, and Prices.....123 CHAPTER VIII. FRENCH FAIENCE.--NEVERS, ROUEN, BEAUVAIS, ETC. Number of Manufactories.--Their Rise and Decline.--Nevers.--Prices.--Beauvais.--Rouen.--Moustiers.--Strasbourg, or Haguenau.--Marseilles.--Sarreguemines.--Sinceny, Nancy, Creil, Montpellier.--Paris.--Paris to-day.--Limoges.--Deck.....138 CHAPTER IX. DUTCH DELFT AND ENGLISH EARTHEN-WARE. Delft, Number of Fabriques.--Haarlem.--Paste.--Great Painters.--Violins.--Tea-Services.--A Dutch Stable.--Broeck Dutch Tiles.--England.--Queen Elizabeth.--Pepys's Diary.--Brown Stone-ware.--The Tyg.--Lambeth Pottery.--Fulham Pottery.--Elers.--Elizabethan Pottery.--Stoke-upon-Trent.--Josiah Wedgwood.--Cheapness.--Queen's-ware. --Jasper-ware.--Flaxman.--Cameos.--Basalt.--The Portland Vase.--Prices.....153 CHAPTER X. THE PORCELAIN OF CHINA. Difficulties.--The Porcelain Tower at Nanking.--First Making of Porcelain.--Kaolin and Pe-tun-tse.--Marco Polo.--Portuguese Importation.--The City of King-te-chin.--Jacquemart's Groups.--Symbolic Decoration.--Inscriptions.--The Ming Period.--The Celestial Blue.--The Celadons.--Reticulated Cups.--The Crackle.--Various Periods.--Individualism. --Marks and Dates.....175 CHAPTER XI. THE PORCELAIN OF JAPAN. Corean Porcelain.--Katosiro-ouye-mon.--The Province of Idsoumi.--Styles prevailing in Japan.--Marks.--Japanese Blue.--Indian Porcelain.--Dutch East India Company.--Egg-shell and Crackle.--Mandarin China.--Kaga Ware.--Satsuma Ware.--Japanese Art.--The Philadelphia Exhibition.....210 CHAPTER XII. THE PORCELAINS OF CENTRAL EUROPE--DRESDEN, BERLIN, HÖCHST, ETC. Dresden China.--Porcelain in Europe.--The Alchemists.--Augustus II.--Böttger.--Tschirnhaus.--Experiments.--Kaolin discovered.--Höroldt and Kändler.--Fine Art, or Decorative Art.--Lindenir.--Angelica Kauffmann.--Rococo-Work.--Collectors.--Marcolini.--Prices.--Marks.--Berlin. --The Seven Years' War.--Frederick the Great.--Prices.--Marks.--Vienna. --Stenzel.--Maria Theresa.--Lamprecht.--Prices.--Marks.--Hungary.--Herend. --Fischer.--Marks.--Höchst, or Mayence.--Ringler.--Marks.--Frankenthal, or Bavarian.--Carl Theodor.--Melchior.--Prices.--Marks.--Fürstenburg, or Brunswick.--Von Lang.--Prices.--Marks.--Nymphenburg.--Heintzmann and Lindemann.--Prices.--Marks.--Ludwigsburg, or Kronenburg.--Fulda. --Hesse-Cassel.--Switzerland.--Marks.....229