CHRONICLE OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS, ETC. 349
CHRONICLE OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS DIRECTLY CONNECTED WITH THE MANUFACTURE OF POTTERY.
B. C. 600 to 900 years. Manufacture of enamelled bricks in Nineveh and Babylon. The Museum of Practical Geology, London, contains several specimens of enamelled bricks from Babylon, dating some 600 to 900 years before Christ.
B. C. 185. Manufacture of porcelain supposed to have commenced in China between this date and A. D. 87, during the Ilan dynasty.
A. D. 600. Porcelain in common use in China, and supposed to have reached its greatest perfection about the year 1000.
1115. Moorish tiles probably introduced in Italy at the conquest of Majorca by the Pisans.
1200-1300. Colored tiles believed to have been in common use in Persia.
1273-1302. Earliest tiles of the Alhambra.
1310. Delft ware successfully manufactured in Holland.
Incised or Sgriffiato ware largely produced by the Italian artisffc.
1400. Luca della Robbia born ; the sculptor, painter on faience, modeller in bronze, and supposed to have been the first to employ stanniferous glazes in Italy.
Encaustic tiles manufactured in Great Britain, at Malvern Hills and other localities.
1475. Earliest date noticed on any piece of lustred Majolica of the manufacture of Maestro Georgio. Fortnum considers a piece in the Sèrves Museum, dated 1489, to be the earliest piece of lustred ware on record.
1500. About this time oriental porcelain was imported to Europe by the Venetians and Portuguese, and in the following century the Dutch imported great quantities.
1510. Bernard Palissy born about this date, at La Chapelle Biron, Périgord.
1540-1560. Manufacture of majolica in a flourishing state.
1540-1620. Flemish ware, commonly known as Grès de Flandres, in great esteem in Great Britain.
1580. About this date, the earliest known production in Europe of pieces of porcelain in the laboratory of Duke Francesco de’ Medici at Florence.