2-721-298 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Chinese potters at work, design for stained glass window, c1870, (1881). 'Two Panels of Windows in the Gallery of the Museum Containing Pottery' in the South Kensington Museum, by William Bell Scott. One of fourteen stained-glass windows in the Ceramic Gallery, depicting Scott's idea of ceramic manufacture in China: carrying the clay in yokes, mixing glazes, kneading, throwing on a wheel, loading pottery into a kiln. From "The South Kensington Museum", a book of engraved illustrations, with descriptions, of the works of art in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (formerly known as the South Kensington Museum). [Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1881]