Posts Tagged ‘Porcelains’

Spode China Plates

The bone china formula
During the 18th century a lot of English potters have been striving and competing to discover the industrial secret from the production of fine translucent porcelain. The Plymouth and Bristol factories, and (from 1782-1810) the New Hall (Staffordshire) factory under Champion’s patent, were producing tough paste or true porcelain related to Oriental [...]

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Spode China Plates

The bone china formula
During the 18th century a lot of English potters have been striving and competing to discover the industrial secret from the production of fine translucent porcelain. The Plymouth and Bristol factories, and (from 1782-1810) the New Hall (Staffordshire) factory under Champion’s patent, were producing tough paste or true porcelain related to Oriental [...]

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Spode China Plates

The bone china formula
During the 18th century a lot of English potters have been striving and competing to discover the industrial secret from the production of fine translucent porcelain. The Plymouth and Bristol factories, and (from 1782-1810) the New Hall (Staffordshire) factory under Champion’s patent, were producing tough paste or true porcelain related to Oriental [...]

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French Sèvres Porcelain

(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)Sèvres porcelain is French hard-paste, or true, porcelain, as well as soft-paste porcelain. Sèvres porcelain was known for centuries in France as the Porcelain of the Kings and the King of Porcelains [Le Roi des Porcelains et Le Porcelain des Roix]. It was made at the royal (now [...]

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Dresden and Meissen Porcelains

(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)The term Dresden is used to indicate the porcelains that were produced in Meissen and Dresden, Germany from 1710 until the present day. It was the first successfully produced true porcelain in Europe and dominated the style of European porcelain until approximately 1756. The high point of the Meissen factory [...]

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