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    Plymouth porcelain was the first English hard paste porcelain, made in the county of Devon from 1768 to 1770. After two years in Plymouth the factory...
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  • Jingdezhen porcelain Hirado ware Kakiemon Mikasa & Company Nabeshima ware Narumi Noritake Porcelain manufacturing companies in Europe Vienna Porcelain Manufactory...
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    hard-paste porcelain, like that imported from China. He subsequently discovered china clay in Cornwall. In 1768 he founded a works at Plymouth for the production...
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  • Porcelain manufacturing companies are firms which manufacture porcelain. The table below lists European manufacturers of porcelain established before the...
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    Porcelain (/ˈpɔːrs(ə)lɪn/) is a ceramic material made by heating raw materials, generally including kaolinite, in a kiln to temperatures between 1,200...
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    Retrieved 17 September 2012. "Information Sheet: Cookworthy's Plymouth Porcelain" (PDF). Plymouth City Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March...
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    Soft-paste porcelain (sometimes simply "soft paste", or "artificial porcelain") is a type of ceramic material in pottery, usually accepted as a type of...
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    Worcester porcelain; this was soft-paste porcelain. In 1770 the Plymouth porcelain factory, which made England's first hard-paste porcelain, moved to...
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    Limoges porcelain is hard-paste porcelain produced by factories in and around the city of Limoges, France, beginning in the late 18th century, by any...
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    produced the earliest hard-paste porcelain made in England, some two decades before Plymouth porcelain. The earliest Bow porcelains are of soft-paste incorporating...
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    town of Helston. The Plymouth chemist William Cookworthy mixed china stone with kaolin, mined from the hill to make Plymouth porcelain in 1768; which was...
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    pottery vessels fired in bonfires or kilns, to the sophisticated Chinese porcelain wares made for the imperial court and for export. Chinese ceramics show...
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    lit. 'Blue flowers/patterns') covers a wide range of white pottery and porcelain decorated under the glaze with a blue pigment, generally cobalt oxide...
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    Meissen porcelain or Meissen china was the first European hard-paste porcelain. Early experiments were done in 1708 by Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus...
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    principal European porcelain factories. It is located in Sèvres, Hauts-de-Seine, France. It is the continuation of Vincennes porcelain, founded in 1740...
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    Imperial Porcelain Factory (Russian: Императорский Фарфоровый Завод, romanized: Imperatorskii Farforovyi Zavod), also known as the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory...
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    Bone china (redirect from Bone porcelain)
    making hard-paste porcelain (as made in East Asia and Meissen porcelain), but found bone ash a useful addition to their soft-paste porcelain mixtures. This...
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    Dehua porcelain (Chinese: 德化陶瓷; pinyin: Déhuà Táocí; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tek-hòe hûi), more traditionally known in the West as Blanc de Chine (French for "White...
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    Jingdezhen porcelain (Chinese: 景德镇陶瓷) is Chinese porcelain produced in or near Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province in southern China. Jingdezhen may have produced...
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    Imari ware (redirect from Arita (porcelain))
    brightly-coloured style of Arita ware (有田焼, Arita-yaki) Japanese export porcelain made in the area of Arita, in the former Hizen Province, northwestern...
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    The Royal Porcelain Factory in Berlin (German: Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur, abbreviated as KPM), also known as the Royal Porcelain Manufactory Berlin...
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    Hard-paste porcelain, sometimes called "true porcelain", is a ceramic material that was originally made from a compound of the feldspathic rock petuntse...
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    China painting, or porcelain painting, is the decoration of glazed porcelain objects such as plates, bowls, vases or statues. The body of the object may...
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    engraved on it, but as porcelain replaced metal as the favoured material for elite tableware in the 18th century, armorial porcelain became very popular...
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    Chinese export porcelain includes a wide range of Chinese porcelain that was made (almost) exclusively for export to Europe and later to North America...
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    England, his work encouraged the creation of various porcelain works, such as Plymouth porcelain. D'Entrecolles left Jingdezhen for Beijing to take new...
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  • Cookworthy's Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain Penderill-Church, John (1972) William Cookworthy 1705-1780: a study of the pioneer of true porcelain manufacture...
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    Pottery and porcelain (陶磁器, tōjiki, also yakimono (焼きもの), or tōgei (陶芸)) is one of the oldest Japanese crafts and art forms, dating back to the Neolithic...
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    Devonport High School for Boys (category Grammar schools in Plymouth, Devon)
    in Plymouth, Devon, England. It has around 1,150 boys, and its catchment area includes southwest Devon and southeast Cornwall as well as Plymouth. Pupils...
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    Spode (redirect from Spode porcelain)
    striving and competing to discover the secret of the production of porcelain. The Plymouth and Bristol factories, and (from 1782 to 1810) the New Hall (Staffordshire)...
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