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PORCELAIN AND FAIENCE.
kaolin, 0 to 15 of Cornish stone, or 40 to 50 per cent, of these clay materials, to which is added 25 to 45 per cent of sulphate of barytes, 0 to 10 per cent, of flint, and 0 to 2 percent. of gypsum. Twenty per cent, of calcined bone is sometimes added. Half of one per cent, of cobalt gives this body a blue color; one per cent, of chrome, a dark green; nickel, a light green ; copper, bluish green. Basalts and the Egyptian ware are made by introducing some forty per cent, of burnt ochre, and sometimes ten per cent of mill iron cinder.* In addition to the bas-relief unglazed, and jasper ware, the establishment now turns out annually large quantities of the ordinary stone-china glazed ware, plain and decorated. Tull dinner-services, ornamented with fern leaves, flowers, or autumn leaves, can be had at the works for between £10 and £11. The printing of armorial bearings, crests, or monograms upon the ware from engraved copperplates, is an important branch of the decorative work.
Elates so ornamented to order, and with a single band of color at the ed^e, can be had at 7s. 6d. the dozen.
No porcelain is now made. Its production was carried on for a short time about the year 1808 by the nephew of Mr. "Wedgwood. A small amount of majolica is manufactured, and some ornamental objects, among them examples of the " email ombrant ,” which consists of depressed designs, chiefly of human figures and animals, into which transparent colored enamel is allowed to flow.
The following list of pieces, composing complete dinner and dessert services, and a scale of prices for services and for pieces separately, at Etruria, will be found useful for reference and comparison :—
* Beckwith’s Pottery, etc., p. 24. \
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