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Excerpt from The Ancient Art Stoneware of the Low Countries and Germany, or "Grès De Flandres" And "Steinzeug," Vol. 1: Its Principal Varieties, and the Places Where It Was Manufactured During the Xvith and Xviith Centuries <p>The brown ware and its makers have found a reliable and conscientious historian in Vicaire Schmitz. The tale is exhaustively told, and all that concerns the potters of Raeren and their work is faithfully recorded in the articles he published under the title of Letters upon the Stoneware of Limburg. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.