Fig. 28. TURNER OR THROWER'S SHOP IN PORCELAIN WORKS. 



THE POTTER'S ART. 



CHAPTER III. 



1. Improvements effected by Wedgwood. 2. General commercial advan- 

 tages attending the manufacture. 3. History of Chinese porcelain. 

 4. Its first importation into Europe. 5. Great plasticity of the 

 material. 6. Perfection of its forms. 7. Pagoda of Nankin. 

 8. Forms of vases. 9. Figure called "pou-sa." 10. Discovery of 

 the material of porcelain in Europe. 11. Origin and history of 

 Bbttger. 12. His labours in Saxony. 13. Anecdotes of his im- 

 prisonment. 14. Is established at Dresden. 15. First results of 

 his labours. 16. White earth of Schnorr. 17. Discovery of Saxon 

 kaolin. 18. Establishment of the royal manufactory at Meissen. 

 19. Curious precautions to ensure secresy. 20. Anecdote of 

 Brongniart. 21. Death of Bottger. 22. Analysis of the Dresden 

 paste. 23. Style of the Dresden porcelain. 24. Grotesque figures. 

 25. Secrets transpire. 26. Ringler at Hochst. 27. Paul Becker. 

 28. Establishment of the Royal Bavarian manufactory. 29. In other 

 German states. 30. Invention of the Sevres pate tendre. 31. Its 

 defects. 



1. AMONG the principal improvements for which the art is in- 

 debted to the genius of Wedgwood, may be mentioned besides 

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