And maybe they sold all her lovely porcelains to make up for what he’d done somehow.
I just love to hear her talk about old potteries and porcelains and that sort of thing.
That would explain her having parted with all her lovely porcelains and china.
I never saw any porcelains worth while in all my life, except that little thing she has on her mantel.
But chief of all, my whole collection of precious porcelains and pottery was nowhere to be found.
With some trifling exceptions, the names of the various porcelains cited in my "Tale of the Porcelain-God" were selected from Julien's work.
And the Spirit of the Oven-fires so aided him with his counsels, that the porcelains made by Thsang-Kong were indeed finer and lovelier to look upon than all other porcelains.
From farthest Ind Come the purple flowers, opium filled, From which the weirdest myths are distilled; My orient porcelains contain them all.
Already I have told you that the Chinese made beautiful porcelains from kaolin and petuntse, two clays which produced a hard, semi-transparent china," he began.
It is undoubtedly the most celebrated," replied Mr. Croyden, "but there are now many other fine porcelains made in France.
I was going to say I wished you would keep on telling me about it until I got well and could go to see some of these potteries and porcelains made.
There are of course so-called porcelains made from other ingredients; but we call them soft paste chinas, and do not rate them as true porcelains.
As a result they began to turn out a blue and white pottery known as Delft, which they soon made in great quantities and sold to European nations at a much lower price than imported Chinese potteries and porcelains could be bought.
Hence Vienna, eager to retain the Oriental trade, was forced to change its artistic trend and make instead porcelains adorned with arabesques and geometrical figures.
However, the English bone porcelains are very beautiful, and though they are not genuine feldspathic products they are highly esteemed and in demand everywhere.
I only wish I had here at this moment some specimens of the exquisite porcelains they have made that you might see them and get some idea of their richness and beauty.
By and by, however, the Japanese Government encouraged the industry by giving money toward its manufacture, and as a result about the year 1200 the porcelains of the Japanese rivaled those of China.
Japanese were making porcelainssimilar to those of China.
I did not realize you classified porcelains as bone or spar.
In France the attempt to imitate Italian Faenza ware gave rise to the word faience, a term applied to French porcelains made both from hard and soft paste.
Next we come to some other varieties of porcelains which connoisseurs have grouped together because of their color and called Famille-vert.
It may be added that the Dresden, Sevres, and Limoges porcelains are baked at a higher temperature, and are harder than the Chinese.
This leaves the question of precedence between the vitreous and artistic porcelains of the Rose family practically unaffected.
And maybe they sold all her lovely porcelains to make up for what he'd done somehow.
Paris and its environs of a number, of factories for the production of hard-paste porcelains more or less in open rivalry with the royal manufactory of Sevres.
The earliest English porcelains were derived from the French, and, like them, owed their translucence to the use of glass.
Chinese porcelain, and he also speaks of a translucent ware made at Fostat (Old Cairo) which may well have been the progenitor of the glassy porcelains of Persia, as well as of those made in Italy during the 15th and 16th centuries.
The Swedish porcelains were of two kinds, one a true felspathic porcelain like the German, and the other a glassy porcelain resembling that made at Mennecy in France.
During the 18th century the same leaven was at work on the porcelains of China and of Europe, the East influenced the West, and the West in its turn bore down the East.
Cairo was at this time the great mart for the exchange of the products of East and West, and from this centre porcelains were sent into Europe.
The admired crackle in some Oriental potteries and porcelains is crazing produced in a foreseen and regulated way.
It is often represented on porcelains and other works of art.
I question however whether, from a purely artistic standpoint, Satsuma is worthy of being compared with many of the other porcelains in Japan.
Among the porcelains the most famous are those of Kutania, Hizen, and Kyoto.
They did not attain the high ideal contemplated by Frederik V when he set out to equal the Saxon porcelain and the other hard-paste porcelains of Germany, but they arrived at a dignity and a grace of style which are worthy of regard.
It was only for fifty years that the English potters used the capricious body of the glassy soft porcelains then made.
To the same class of rice bowls belong the pierced porcelains with patterns filled with glaze.
All the products of this new effort are porcelains proper.
But at Owari the experts were content with an inferior colour, and their blue-and-white porcelains never enjoyed a distinguished reputation, though occasionally we find a specimen of great merit.
The porcelains of Arita were carried to the neighbouring town of Imari for sale and shipment.
But they also devote much attention to porcelains decorated with blue or red sous couverte.
Nowadays, indeed, numerous examples of porcelains decorated in this manner are classed among Owari products.
All students of the ceramic art know that the monochrome porcelains of China owe their beauty to the fact that the colour is in the glaze, not under it.
Taking the Eiraku porcelains of Kioto as models, Hachiroemon employed red grounds with designs traced on them in gold.
The fine earthenwares and porcelains which became the basis of such manufactures were originated here.
She enlarged the works and secured whatever was possible of artists and workmen, and produced some of the finest porcelains of Europe.
European porcelains are known as hard and soft, the pate dure and pate tendre of the French.
Thousands upon thousands of porcelains were imported into Holland after the year 1640, whence they were distributed over Europe.
They are already making copies--counterfeits of some of the high-priced porcelains of China--and putting on these the marks intended to deceive.
The beautiful porcelains of China and Japan, then rare in Europe, interested him, and he became of course a collector; and so he continued through his luxurious and troublesome life.
Of porcelains from the island of Corea but little is known, and all our statements are made with doubt.
The finest porcelains date from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and these are the ideals towards which every modern potter looks.
In the porcelains of Berlin the quality lies largely in the complete mastery of technical details.
For present purposes not much is to be learned from the soft porcelains of France nor from the bone china of England.
Even in the kitchen, antiquity holds sway; the carved cupboards and walls are rich in old Normandy brasses and in porcelains and pottery that would drive a collector wild with covetousness.
He suggested that we go and look at the Chinese porcelains so that we could listen more intelligently to you.
Even hundreds of years ago forgeries were perpetrated by the Chinese who desired to have their works of art mistaken for still more ancient masterpieces; and so the ancient and modern makers of porcelains inscribed them accordingly.
I called him up at his office and asked him to keep the jades and porcelains because I liked them.
To his request for particulars, she said that she had work to do among the jades and Chinese porcelains belonging to a Mr. Clydesdale.
Did he perhaps tell you that he had an appointment at the Kiln Club with a man who was interested in porcelains and jades?
Your husband came down later; we talked jades and porcelains and prices until I nearly yawned my head off.
If you were an expert," she explained wearily, "you would understand that inscriptions on Chinese porcelains are not trustworthy.
And the porcelainsare not what you represented them to be.
Like rare porcelains and old paintings, their value increases with each passing year; and the prices received for them range according to the fancy and caprice of the purchaser.
Without it the beauty of the lustre tiles of Persia, the marvellous porcelains of China, and the delicate textiles of Western Asia would fade into insignificance.
He placed the porcelains carefully on the floor under the Christmas tree.
There is an abundance of clay, and of this brick for road-making, tiles for building purposes, and porcelains are made.
The gold and silver are used both for coinage and in the arts; the clay has made Japanese porcelains famous.
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