Rough notes on pottery
Rough Notes on Pottery is a small 1896 Newark, New Jersey handbook on ceramics written by William Percival Jervis, apparently for collectors and students of pottery. The four pictures are engraved line drawings in blue-grey ink of decorative plates and an ewer, showing a commemorative American Revolution-era plate with state names and a seated figure, a Persian-style floral dish, and a horseman scene on a Renaissance-style charger. A designer could take from them the repeated border devices, the radiating floral layouts, and the way tight hatching models tone and form.
