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  • n  glazed earthenware decorated with opaque colors

  • In these fantastic barns the walls were lined with mirrors, floors were made of costly faience, each groom had a three-room, electrically heated apartment, the horses themselves .
  • Other ornaments were a sort of bib and two wristlets, apparently of faience; three scarabs, apparently of stone, and an oval seal ring.
  • If the mood was not for pictures, there were sundry other objets d'art marbles by Donatello, Cyprian glass, Italian faience, Japanese lacquers, Hispano-Moresque plaques, and .

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