The bathroom was small and contained an ordinary steel tub, porcelain lined, standing near the window and raised about six inches above the floor.
Removing the rubber tubes, he cut them into pieces, broke the porcelain disk, and, rolling up the platinum wire, washed it all down the sewer pipe.
Presently she entered with a lamp-- a large one with a whiteporcelain shade.
Wreaths and bouquets in porcelain vases stood between all the dishes.
Very compact sketching boxes with assorted colours in cakes, in porcelain pans, or in collapsible tubes, are provided; and the amateur can hardly do better than select one of these with any number of colours from two to twenty-four.
It is also used for the points of gold pens, and in a finely powdered condition (iridium black), for painting porcelain black.
Defn: Porcelain manufactured at Sèvres, France, ecpecially in the national factory situated there.
Note: The name is now applied to allporcelain clays which endure the fire without discoloration.
Defn: A small ovalporcelain or glass cup, having a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye.
Porcelain was called after this shell, either on account of its smoothness and whiteness, or because it was believed to be made from it.
A ceramic ware, resembling unglazedporcelain biscuit, of which are made statuettes, ornaments, etc.
Defn: A very pure white clay, ordinarily in the form of an impalpable powder, and used to form the paste of porcelain; China clay; porcelain clay.
Its yellow oxide is used to impart to glass a delicate greenish-yellow tint which is accompanied by a strong fluorescence, and its black oxide is used as a pigment in porcelain painting.
Porcelain printing, the transferring of an impression of an engraving to porcelain.
Defn: The want of unctuosity; freedom from greasiness or oiliness; as, the inunctuosity of porcelain clay.
Defn: Porcelain impressed with figures which are made distinct by transmitted light, -- as when hung in a window, or used as a lamp shade.
Ivory porcelain, porcelain with a surface like ivory, produced by depolishing.
Wash, dry, ignite strongly in a porcelain crucible, and weigh.
The salts of ammonium formed by it may be removed by igniting, or by evaporating in a porcelain dish with an excess of nitric acid.
Dry the precipitate, and ignite in a platinum or porcelain crucible at the strongest heat.
Take 2 grams of the dried and powdered ore and treat in a porcelain dish with 20 c.
Rub up in a mortar with 5 grams of nitre and fuse in a porcelain dish for ten minutes.
The finely-powdered substance is mixed (in a large platinum or porcelain crucible) with from six to ten times its weight of a mixture of equal parts of carbonate of soda and nitre.
Rub up 5 grams of the ore with 5 grams of nitre, transfer to a porcelain dish, and fuse over a Bunsen burner for fifteen minutes.
In the determination of sulphur in brimstone, 10 grams of the substance are taken, placed in a small porcelain dish, heated over a Bunsen burner in a well-ventilated place, and ignited.
Platinum vessels and apparatus lose, and porcelain ones slightly gain, weight with continued use.
The ignited jet of hydrogen assumes a blue colour if arsenic is present, and a cold porcelain dish held in the flame (fig.
Other materials than slate, marble, or porcelain must be submitted for special examination before being used.
Where flush switches or receptacles are used, whether with conduit systems or not, they must be enclosed in an approved box constructed of iron or steel, in addition to the porcelain enclosure of the switch or receptacle.
In such cases hardwood properly filled, or preferably porcelain or micanite bushings must be used.
Nothing but metal and porcelainmust be used in the construction of these resistances and they must be on stands which raise them well above the floor.
The ordinary porcelain link fuse cut-out will not be approved.
The use of porcelain sockets, however, should be avoided; mica sockets seem to be generally preferred.
There was water laid on at Blindbeck, as Sarah knew, with a copper cylinder in a special linen-room, and a hot towel-rail and a porcelain bath.
Splendid and sound work, too, has been turned out in recent years in Germany and Austria, whilst the Copenhagen porcelain is world famous.
Dwight is said to have produced a fritted porcelainin 1671, before the discovery of kaolin.
With porcelain and the finest high-fired wares a purity of materials and uniformity of mass is absolutely necessary.
In France also early experiments led eventually to the fabrication of porcelain much on the lines of English porcelain, a frit being used instead of kaolin.
The success of the German ceramists led to a wide patronage of potters by kings and princes which quickly spread the knowledge of porcelain throughout Europe.
Pottery and Porcelain in the United States (and other volumes).
It may range from something a little softer than softporcelain to the coarse "Majolica" with a tin glaze, differing widely in colour of body and hardness of glaze.
Porcelain was made at Dresden in 1709, and many of the Dresden figures show a remarkably sympathetic alliance of potting, modelling and painting.
Further, some glazes stick badly to porcelain or enamel tubs.
But for delicate modelling, where colour is a secondary consideration and where refinements may be obscured by too much gloss, the grand feu porcelain or salt glaze are the best and only alternatives.
Chiefly used in the manufacture of porcelain and fine earthenware.
The Sèvres porcelain of the period of the First Empire was remarkable for the stiffness and sham-academical style of the figures.
The fifth was bordered by a heap of caramels similar to that shapeless mass of amber which the sea sometimes throws up on shore, and the table was covered with porcelain vessels full of cream.
The Dubois brothers afterwards moved to Vincennes; and it was not until 1756 that general headquarters for the porcelain work of Paris were fixed at Sèvres.
Duc set forth that the fabrication of the material left nothing to be desired, and that the artists who furnished designs for the porcelain were unequalled.
To attempt to make porcelain elsewhere than at Sèvres was not only a criminal offence, but almost an offence of State.
Men were busy in hanging Eastern rugs and curtains up to view, and arranging in the windows beautiful jars and plates of porcelain and pottery, glittering wares from Turkey and Damascus, carved furniture, and inlaid cabinets.
Some prefer porcelain or granite ware, others prefer tin, but all good housekeepers agree that absolute cleanliness is of the utmost importance.
Chinese porcelain has long been sent to Japan for decoration, the resemblance between the styles of the two countries, due primarily to race, being thus increased.
A connoisseur in porcelain would have set such a plate on his drawing-room wall as a picture.
All the secrets of porcelain are open to him; and were they not, Europe did all her best things in ceramics before she was able to make a porcelain teacup.
The fanning-mill, porcelain and the cheng may be fairly credited to her.
Again, the indigo which has been acted on by sulphuric acid, if thickly laid on, or suffered to dry so that neither white paper nor the porcelain can appear through, exhibits a colour approaching to orange.
Thus if we fill a white porcelain cup with a pure yellow liquor, the fluid will appear to become gradually redder towards the bottom, and at last appears orange.
If this colour, or the blue before mentioned, is washed with a pencil on porcelain or paper, it is seen in its real state owing to the bright ground shining through.
The Père, being a resident in a district distinguished for its porcelain manufactories, sent samples to his own country (A.
The name porcelain is derived from the Italian porcellana, signifying a cowrie shell, on account of the delicate translucent glaze on its surface.
PLATE 6 Vase of white porcelain of Têhua in the province of Fuchien, mounted in silver-gilt of the period of Louis XIV.
Those who are in search of what is beautiful or vital in English porcelain will be content to confine their attentions to the eighteenth century.
At a later stage the Ginori works became famous for their large reproductions in white porcelain of antique statues in the Florentine palaces, such as the Crouching Venus and the Apollo Belvedere.
Traces of Western influence may be discerned, if not in the decoration, at all events in the forms of Chinese porcelain all through the seventeenth century, and in K’ang Hsi’s reign its effect is fully apparent.
The nature of this earliest French porcelain is established by a few pieces, which there are sufficient grounds for supposing to be authentic.
From them we can trace the porcelain of later times, by which the Chinese have proved themselves the master-potters of the world, excelling and giving the lead to the ceramists of every other race.
The problem need not be discussed here, as most of these wares cannot be classed as porcelain in the ordinary sense of the word; but it is interesting to note briefly those types which foreshadow the developments of later times.
Berenice waiting on him, the dishes were of wrought silver, the paintedporcelain plates had cost a louis d'or apiece.
With an oval face of deep ivory tint, a mouth red as a pomegranate, and a chin subtly delicate in its contour as the edge of a porcelain cup, Coralie was a Jewess of the sublime type.
When one of the jurors asked Tascheron why he had taken a passport for America, the man replied that he had intended to establish a porcelain manufactory in that country.
During his two years' apprenticeship in a porcelain factory, his conduct was worthy of all praise; no apparent ill-conduct had led up to the horrible crime which was now to end his life.
A porcelain workman; a man whose character has always been excellent, and who was in a fair way to make his fortune.
Indeed, wherever to-day in Japan one sees something totally uninteresting in porcelain or metal, something commonplace and ugly, one may be almost sure that detestable something has been shaped under foreign influence.
Cigars, woollen goods, gloves, hats and porcelain are among the chief manufactures.
A tile of white porcelain with a black pattern on it mill, if heated red-hot, show the pattern bright on a darker ground.
The porcelain manufacture attained its greatest excellence in the time of Kang Hi and Kien Lung.
Every guest has his own table, and on each are five cups, bowls, and small dishes of porcelain and lacquer, all of them with lids like teapots.
Porcelain articles of this period are now extremely rare, and fetch enormous prices.
The slave brings out a small pot of porcelain and with a pencil paints Fatima's lips redder than the coral which the Hindu dealers sell in the bazaar.
Compared to the Kang Hi vases, the finest porcelain that can be produced nowadays is mere rubbish.
The maid went downstairs, leaving him still in his fur coat, idly turning over the visiting cards in the porcelain bowl that stood on the carved oak rug chest in the hall.
Not one piece of furniture, no picture or porcelain figure appealed to modern taste.
He could see his own fur coat flung across the carved oak chair; the Persian rugs; the silver bowls, the rows of porcelain plates arranged along the walls, and this unknown man who was standing there.
Hawes, show that that town, at least, was largely composed of houses which must have pretty closely resembled those on the porcelain plaques of Knossos.
In this Palace is a quantity of ancient armour and the most superb collection of porcelain I believe in Europe.
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