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 77
orcelain for certain vivid and intense effects inthe colours employed by him. He holds that when the natureand composition of the paste or body and of the glaze have beendetermined, the enamel colours are simply purchased ready-made from the enameller or chemist. For example, the zafFer or zapher,… … Bow Pattern. note that in China the blue under-glaze, owing to the failure ofthe supply of cobalt, became sometimes of inferior quality, and atanother time a very vSuperior blue pigment was used, again acobalt blue. Large quantities of blue-painted ware were manu-factured at Bow, and sold at cheap…
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