This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...is a material in which the beauty of the result well repays the highest exercise of Art. It has been for centuries a favorite material for expressing the Poetry of Form. The famous Etruscan vases of antiquity, the exquisite gems of the Majolica of the sixteenth century, the marvellous works of Bernard Palissy, the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...is a material in which the beauty of the result well repays the highest exercise of Art. It has been for centuries a favorite material for expressing the Poetry of Form. The famous Etruscan vases of antiquity, the exquisite gems of the Majolica of the sixteenth century, the marvellous works of Bernard Palissy, the prince of potters, the beautiful productions of the Sevres and Dresden manufactories, the well-known charming designs of the Wedgwood-ware, and the still more recent Parian statuettes, may be named in proof of the fitness of Porcelain to embody the conceptions of Genius. Dental-porcelain is worthy of such associations: not only like them does it delight the eye, and give evidence of high esthetic cultivation, but it adds to beauty the charm of usefulness. It is customary to attribute the rapid growth of Dental Art, since 1840, to its Associations, Colleges, Journals, and its didactic Literature, --and with much truth. But to Porcelain it owe3 its very existence, as an aesthetic art, and the larger part of its extent and utility as a prosthetic art. It was altogether impossible for perishable human teeth, or their wretched imitations in ivqry, to offer such tempting fac-similes of nature as we meet in porcelain. By thus creating that enormously increased demand for dental service, which has been the chief cause of the rapid development of its resources, it has made the dental profession its debtor to a greater extent than anyother single influence. The depot not only renders service by the superior excellence of the surgical instruments and prosthetic materials which it supplies, but it directly benefits the science and art of dentistry, by releasing the practitioner from manufacturing toil, and giving time for the acquirement of increased knowledge..
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