Pottery and Porcelain
Pottery is defined as earthenware and includes Faience, or Majolica,
creamware and, according to many authorities, a near-porcelain variety called stoneware.
It is the commoner type of chinaware...
With the aid of methods learned from Near Eastern potters the Moorish
conquerors of Spain established a number of potteries. There, they produced an earthenware
decorated brilliantly in a copper-coloured...
Dutch tin-glazed pottery, known by the name of the town of Delft where
it became established eventually, was made in great quantities and much was sent to
England. Not only was there a big trade...
In Persia and other Near East countries pottery had been made for many
centuries, and while the majority of Europe was in a state of barbarism, attractive wares
were being made with brilliantly coloured...
Some of the earliest inhabitants of both North and South America were
skilled and artistic potters, and examples of their work are to be found in museums;
occasionally, they can be bought. In more...
Porcelain is subdivided into two kinds. The Oriental, true, or
hard-paste porcelain was made first in the Far East and is composed of two natural
ingredients-china-clay and china-stone...
English porcelain is, with the exception of Plymouth, all of
soft-paste, and it is important for the collector to learn to recognize this feature. Like
so many difficult things, it cannot...
Continental porcelain differs essentially from English in that it was
in nearly every instance, either at first or eventually, hard-paste. Even those factories
that began with pseudo-glass soft-paste...
Petersburg did not begin production until about 1758 and few of the
products of its early years are to be seen outside Russia. Large vases were
made in the early nineteenth century and...
Oriental pottery and porcelain was made principally in China, Korea and
Japan. The wares made in these countries, and in those bordering on the first two,
resemble each other superficially, and...
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