Studio: international art (82.1921)

FIG. 2. POLYCHROME TILE
DUTCH, SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

lished in Holland, the influence of Chinese
porcelain made itself felt on the products
of the potteries. The colour designs
became modified and refined to a certain
extent at the end of the seventeenth
century, and the influence of the oriental
school showed itself particularly in a
greater delicacy in the drawing of details.

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FIG. 3. POLYCHROME TILE
DUTCH, SIXTEENTH CENTURY

The principal outcome of this influence
was the extensive use of blue, from which
resulted those charming little tiles now so
well known but never so much apprecia-
ted as they deserve to be, with their
pleasant landscape designs or quaint figures,
such as the horse and its rider in fig. 10.
It was at this stage that the products of

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