History of the Staffordshire Potteries; And the Rise And Progress of the Manufacture of Pottery And Porcelain; With References to Genuine Specimens, And Notices of Eminent Potters
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It is related, that when Pere D'Entrecolles mentioned to some Chinese, that the European potters had been using some petuntse without kaolin, and could not produce Porcelain, he was answered sarcastically that " the Euporeans are a wonderful people, to make a body whose flesh was to sustain itself without bones." Dr. William Sherard com- municated to the Royal Society of London, the statement of the Jesuits ; and he also supplied the Museum of that learned body with several specimens of the mat...erials employed by the Chinese Potters. Probably a sight of these materials, (whether Chinese or Saxon, tho' most likely the latter,) and the account given by the Jesuits, 198 RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE urged Mr. Cookworthy, (hereafter again noticed) a chemist of considerable experience, resident at Plymouth, to in- vestigate the productions of his own neighbourhood ; and he was successful in finding in Cornwall, both the Petuntse and Kaolin, now used in the Chinese Porcelain. Frederic II. was so wishful to have a Manufactory at Berlin, that when he conquered Saxony, he forcibly trans- ported from Dresden, the artisans, to his own manufactory ; and the following device was by him adopted to raise the productions into notoriety, and which ultimately caused its rise to a state of perfection in beauty and elegance, rivaUing that of Saxony: — The Jews resident in his dominions being compelled to obtain his permission prior to their marriage, he adopted the condition of a Certificate that the parties had purchased to not less than a stipulated amount of this Porcelain ; after which his permission was granted, confident that it would soon be vended among other people.
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