A Manual of Pottery And Porcelain for American Collectors
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glass to semiopacity, we obtain porcelain. In experiment- ing for the discovery of porcelain, both methods were tried, but the former proved most successful. The infusible ingredients of pottery combined with the fusible ingredients of glass produce porcelain. Porce- lain is divided into two classes, and distinguished by a variation in the glazing. Hard paste {pate dure) is the form in which we or- dinarily meet it ; this will not yield to the knife. Soft paste {pdte tendre) is easily scratched... by the knife, and it also has a waxy feeling; this last form is most generally employed upon pieces of lavish decoration. A knowledge of these two classes is utterly indispensa- ble to the connoisseur or expert. ORIENTAL PORCELAIN. CHINA. The obscurity which surrounds the language and tra- ditions of China would incline us to mark with the inter- rogation point every affirmation contained in English or French literature regarding her porcelain. Not that the study of Chinese wares has not been as extensive as cir- cumstances would allow, but, rather, the want of absolute fact and sympathetic intercourse seem to present impassa- ble barriers in the way of authentic statement.
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