Artificial soft paste porcelain : France, Italy, Spain and England . No. 05-230. 30. Frit Paste Goat and Bee Jug.(4i inches in height).Polychrome , England, about Pell Collection, Metropolitan Museum, New York. 31. Frit Paste Vase (12 inches in height). Decorated in Colours, Chinese Style. Chelsea, England, about 1760. 23 The porcelain produced at Chelsea from this time until about 1760was almost identical in body and glaze with that of St. Cloud, andsome authorities claim that the Chelsea ware of that period was madeby French workmen. Be this as it may, the body of th
Artificial soft paste porcelain : France, Italy, Spain and England . No. 05-230. 30. Frit Paste Goat and Bee Jug.(4i inches in height).Polychrome , England, about Pell Collection, Metropolitan Museum, New York. 31. Frit Paste Vase (12 inches in height). Decorated in Colours, Chinese Style. Chelsea, England, about 1760. 23 The porcelain produced at Chelsea from this time until about 1760was almost identical in body and glaze with that of St. Cloud, andsome authorities claim that the Chelsea ware of that period was madeby French workmen. Be this as it may, the body of the early Chelseafactory shows the same peculiarity as that of the old French glassyporcelain, and exhibits in a marked degree the mooning or presenceof small translucent spots, which are more or less characteristic of allfrit paste. Attention to this phenomenon in Chelsea porcelain wasfirst drawn by Dr. W. H. Diamond. At a later date this same pecu-liarity was observed in the old French porcelains, and the writer hasfound it in the earlier porcelain of Worcester. Mr. William Burton,in his History and Description of English Porcelain (page 38), statesthat It has been suggested that
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