. Chambers's encyclopedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people. Fig. of Staffordshire ware. design, by the employment of Flaxman for bas-reliefs and figures. The ai)plications of cojiper-plate printing and gilding were subsequentlydiscovered. Still later, other materials, as felsparand bones, were used in the composition of thispottery. Delft-stone and other wares were madeat different i)laces, as Liveii)ool, Lowestoft, andelsewhere; but, after different vicissitudes, mostof the potteries have disajjpeared except those ofthe stoneware at Lambeth and Vauxhall. None of thi
. Chambers's encyclopedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people. Fig. of Staffordshire ware. design, by the employment of Flaxman for bas-reliefs and figures. The ai)plications of cojiper-plate printing and gilding were subsequentlydiscovered. Still later, other materials, as felsparand bones, were used in the composition of thispottery. Delft-stone and other wares were madeat different i)laces, as Liveii)ool, Lowestoft, andelsewhere; but, after different vicissitudes, mostof the potteries have disajjpeared except those ofthe stoneware at Lambeth and Vauxhall. None of this ware, however, was of the nature ofthe Chinese porcelain which had been imported bythe Arabs in the 13th c, was known in Italy in1330, and was imported into France as early as1370, and into England much later. The nameporcelain, from porcellana, an obscure Portugueseword, supposed to mean a shell, is applied toa mixture of alumina or kaolin and silex orpetuntse, which, when baked, does not fuse ata temperature as high as 140° of Wedgewoodspyrometer, and the glaze of whic
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