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 19
ware, and is ofteu distinguished by disfiguring cracks, crazes, and blemishes, whichnaturally mark the experimental stage. Forinstance, two Taoist immortals, or gods, inwhite porcelain, might be submitted to you. The model is the same, yet one is Chinese and the other Plymouth. How can you detect… … White Porcelain-Chelsea.Bust of Gecrge II. kiln. The inside is very like the sugar icing on a cake, and has noglaze. The Plymouth figure, on the contrary, is not white ; it is allstained brown, owing to the use of wood in the kiln. From thesame cause it has a number of tiny black spots all round…
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