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 124
give some particulars aboutchina clay and china stone, because they are so extensively usedin the manufacture of English and foreign porcelain, and becauseCookworthy discovered and first applied themto this purpose. China clay or kaolin isprepared chiefly in Cornwall and Devon.St. Austell, St.… … A Fine Mug, marKed Plymouth. decomposition of the feldspathic portion of [the granite rockssupplies, in a friable state, the materials from which the kaolin isprocured. The decomposed rock, usually containing much quartz,is commonly exposed on an inclined plane to a fall of a few feet ofwater,…
Pottery -- England · Collectors and collecting
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