"The potter, digging the hoe in the ground, for days on end extracting the clay with his hands."

"What land is this? Yon pretty town Is Delft, with all its wares displayed: The pride, the market-place, the crown And…"

"I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker."

"For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes."

"The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy."

"Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarri…"

"There's a joy without canker or cark, There's a pleasure eternally new, 'Tis to gloat on the glaze and the mark Of ch…"

"Turn, turn, my wheel! Turn round and round Without a pause, without a sound: So spins the flying world away! This cla…"

"And yonder by Nankin, behold! The Tower of Porcelain, strange and old, Uplifting to the astonished skies Its ninefold…"

"Said one among them: "Surely not in vain My substance of the common Earth was ta'en And to this Figure moulded, to be…"