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Minton’s, Stoke-upon-Trent, and 28 Walbrooh , London. —This well-known firm made a fine display of china and earthenware, dinner, dessert, tea, and toilet services; china, majolica, and parian vtfses, statuettes and other ornaments; enamelled tiles for walls, grates, hearths, and flower-boxes. To this enumeration must be added a novelty in British manufacture, pate-sur-pdte decoration, a process which originated at Sevres in 1847, under Ebelman, though known long before in China. A series of plates and some vases gave satisfactory evidence of the complete success which has attended the efforts to introduce the process in England, by tbe aid of M. Solon, from Sevres, who‘removed to England during the Franco-German war. The nature of the process ls indicated by the name : the design is worked upon the plate in paste or thin porcelain body, the same as the body °f the plate itself. But the body of the plate or foundation for the design is previously colored a pale celadon green or a darker color (some were dark-brown or black), and the de- being worked over this, permits the color to be seen through the thin or depressed portions after vitrification, and thus deepens or forms the shades, while the thicker portions the paste show less of the ground-work color, are higher, and give the lights an appearance of a higher degree of relief fo the surface than actually exists. When the design is nshed and the piece is fired and glazed, the trauslucency of
e design is heightened, and the whole forms a homogeneous
mass.
This series of specimens attracted great attention, and all Were s °hl before the close of the exhibition to various j^seums, as high as $100 being paid for a single plate. Ue °f these plates may be seen at the Boston Athenaeum.
Pâte Changeante.
Messrs. Minton also make the peculiar chameleon y > joâte changeante , which appears of one color by solar
and another by artificial light. In the daylight it is a y j sh or celadon-green, and at night is pink or crimson.
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ivh KU1Ci h as ^ e was invented by the chemist Régnault, 611 director of the Sevres establishment.