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Les Trois Livres De L’Art Du Potier / The Three Books of the Potter’s Art (Book) by Cipriano Piccolpasso, Rowan Watson (Preface), Jean-Marie Lhôte (Translation). Publisher: La Revue de la céramique et du verre. In Very Good Condition, small mark On the spine. Hardcover, 160 pages, One Book With 3 Chapters, In French and Italian. 30 x 24 x 3.5 cm.

Here is the legendary manuscript of the oldest European treatise on ceramic technique, fully reproduced in facsimile and accompanied by its translation. In Casteldurante, Cipriano Piccolpasso completed around 1557 a treatise revealing the secrets of the masters of the art of majolica. An excellent observer in matters of shaping, colors and firings, Piccolpasso delivers a unique testimony on the manufacture of tin-bearing earthenware in Renaissance Italy.

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