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 68
list itselfneeds no further explanation. The octagonal plate in the illustration will serve very well asa typical specimen of the first period of Chelsea. It is unmarked, but to the connoisseur it is marked all over— paste, glaze, and spur marks. The paste is white, nearly cream-coloured, in fact,… … it. The paste is soft and easily cut with a file ; so soft is it thatscarcely a mark is made if the finger-nail is rubbed on it. Thebase-rim has been ground, and feels soft and smooth. The bodyis thick and comparatively heavy, and it is chipped with ease—that is, if you dig a knife into it with…
Pottery -- England · Collectors and collecting
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