The ABC of collecting old English china, giving short history of the English factories, and showing how to apply tests for unmarked china before 1800 (1908)
Blacker, J. F · London : London Opinion Curio Club · leaf 121
gularly well seen in suchearly specimens, which are commonly disfigured by cracks madein firing—fire cracks or crazes—by warping or bending out of 112 OLD CHINA shape, which is specially noticeable in many of the figures, andby spots, blotches, and blisters on the glaze. The decoration, too,is… … Oriental, Chinese, said to be Plymouth. The dinner and tea services were of purely Oriental design,in the blue-and-white style generally, so that the blackish-bluecolour test must be applied. The South Kensington Museumshows many undoubted early pieces, a teacup painted with foliagein…
Pottery -- England · Collectors and collecting
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