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POLYCHROMATIC GLAZES
manufacture. It may also be compared to the fis-
sures produced on a glass by the flame of a candle
brought too close to it. The net-work in which it
envelops the vase is very irregular. The meshes
are different in size and in appearance, and follow
one another now in one fashion, now in another.
Their contour often takes a quadrilateral or even a
triangular form. Finally, each of the little fissures
may be felt with the point of a needle which, if
similarly applied to an antique vase, would pass over
its surface uninterruptedly."
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