Artificial soft paste porcelain : France, Italy, Spain and England . 27. Frit Paste Cups and and Gold , Italy. 28. Venice, Trumbull-Prime Collection, Princeton, N. J. 29. Frit Paste Tureen (10 inches in height). Decorated in Colours and Gold. Buen Retiro, Spain, about 1765. 19 and the flowers with golden amber glaze (No. 26). The stems arerepresented by pencilled gold lines. The paste is of glistening anddazzling whiteness, and admirably suited to this style of embellish-ment, but it bears little resemblance to the soft, mellow, waxy porce-lain of the Lou
Artificial soft paste porcelain : France, Italy, Spain and England . 27. Frit Paste Cups and and Gold , Italy. 28. Venice, Trumbull-Prime Collection, Princeton, N. J. 29. Frit Paste Tureen (10 inches in height). Decorated in Colours and Gold. Buen Retiro, Spain, about 1765. 19 and the flowers with golden amber glaze (No. 26). The stems arerepresented by pencilled gold lines. The paste is of glistening anddazzling whiteness, and admirably suited to this style of embellish-ment, but it bears little resemblance to the soft, mellow, waxy porce-lain of the Louis XV. and Louis XVI. periods, and is lacking in thegrease spots so characteristic of the early French fritted paste. II. FRIT PORCELAIN OF OTHER CONTI-NENTAL COUNTRIES. ITALY. The production of artificial porcelain of a hybrid nature wasattempted in Italy as early as the sixteenth century. As no speci-mens of these products have been identified, however, it is not pos-sible to describe the ware, but it is believed that it partook more of thecharacter of glass than of porcelain. At a later period the soft pasteporcelain of the early French factories was i
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