The encyclopedia of ceramics, compiled by W. P. Jervis, with much original matter now first published.. (1902)
Jervis, William Percival, 1850- · New York · leaf 529
SEVRES 521 factory that the young Dauphine sent a similar vase to her father, Frederick Augustus, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, in order j to show him that her adopted country could produce china equal to that of Meissen. Most of the Vincennes china up to this period (1749) had been white,… … SEVRES VASEo abaster. These ingredients were mixed together, and placed in an oven in a layer of consider- able thickness, where, after being fired for at least fifty hours, they formed a perfectly white frit or vitrified paste. This, having been crushed, was mixed with Argenteuil marl in the…
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