Architectural Pottery (Classic Reprint): Bricks, Tiles, Pipes, Enamelled Terracottas, Ordinary and Incrusted Quarries, Stoneware Mosaic, Faïences, and ... and Architectural Stoneware (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The rapid exhaustion Of quarries from which we have drawn for years obliges us to get supplies from greater and greater distances, and so to raise inordinately the price of building stones. We can only replace them by calling to our aid artificial materials, such as iron, brick, terra-cotta, cement, etc. Ancient examples of the substitution Of terra-cotta for stone are frequent in Persia. Jules Laurens and Dieulafoy have shown them to us in the imposing buildings which they have sketched and reproduced from the remarkable ruins excavated on the sites Of ancient cities like Suse.

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