Pottery and porcelain of all times and nations; with tables of factory and artists' marks for the use of collectors (1878)
Prime, William Cowper, 1825-1905 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 249
s, by the use of a surface paste, in which steatite forms a componentpart, and the hot piece being plunged into cold water, this surface pasteat once cracks. Color is then rubl)ed in. In other cases the vase, fixedin a frame, is heated at particular sj^ots and suddenly cooled, producinglocal… … 150. Gray Crackle Vase. (T.-P. Coll.) iieigiit 22 inches. that each vase has a core of paste different from the surface paste, andthrough which the cracks do not extend. The most minute variety is called truite, from its fancied resemblance CHINA. 245
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