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Marryat, Joseph

London, 1850

ETH-Bibliothek Zürich

Shelf Mark: Rar 28735

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CHAPTER I. PAGE 3 SOFT POTTERY OF ITALY .—(MAJOLICA .) . Moorish Majolica, or Enamelled Pottery of Italy .—First copied from Pesaro.—Luca Plates .—Pisan Expedition against Majorca.—Manufacture at Ware. della Robbia.—Petit Chateau de Madrid.—Dukes of Urbino .—Raffaelle in Majolica. .—Derivation of the term Majolica.—Mezza Majolica.—Artists .—Sacred —Its Various Forms.—Pilgrims’ Bottles.—Spezieria at Loreto and others .— Cups.—Collections at Strawberry Hill, Harford Hall, Stowe, Majolica in Germany.—In . CHAPTER II. 30 SOFT POTTERY OF FRANCE . Palissy. Soft Pottery of France .—Nevers.—Rouen.—Memoir of Bernard —Palissy Ware. CHAPTER III. . . . 41 SOFT POTTERY OF GERMANY AND HOLLAND . of Pottery of Nuremberg .—Enamelled Tiles for Stoves.—Specimen .—Delft, Pottery in the Royal Library at Paris.—Establishment on the Rhine of its Manu¬ or Dutch Ware.—Designs copied from the Japanese .—Date facture .—Its Decline. CHAPTER IV.

HARD POTTERY .—(Fayence a pdte dure) .49 Hard Pottery .—France .—Fayence of Henry II .—England .—Elizabethan .— Ware .—Shakspeare’s Jug .— Pottery .—Staffordshire .—Pipe Crouch Ware.—Place’s China.—.—Holland and Germany Manufacture.—Italy.—Terraglia of Doccia. Xll CONTENTS.

CHAPTER V.

PACK . (Gres- Cirame .) .72 Stoneware of China and Japan .—Of Germany .—Jacobus Flasks.—Jacque¬ line of Hainault .— Luther ’s Jug .—Apostles ’ Mugs.—Flemish Stoneware.—• Gres-Flamand . — Collection of Mr. Huyvetter . — Stoneware of France .— Poteries Azurees of Beauvais.—England .—Coloured Wares of Wedgwood.— Variety and Beauty of his Manufactures.

CHAPTER VI.

PORCELAIN. —(Hard Paste . Oriental .) ...... 95 Porcelain of China.—Its Antiquity .—Porcelain Tower of Nankin .— Marco Polo in China.— Present of Porcelain from Saladin.—From the Soldan of Egypt to Lorenzo de’ Medici.—China introduced into Europe by the Portuguese .—Dutch East India Company.—Dutch Embassy to China.— Manufactory at Kiansi. —Mary Queen of Scots’ China.—Presents of Porcelain to Queen Elizabeth .— Mention of Porcelain by Evelyn and others .—Oriental Service of Queen Anne.—Lady M. W. Montague.—Addison and Horace Walpole.—Mission of French Jesuits to China.—Kaolin and Petuntse .— Antiquity of the White Porcelain .—Blue and White of Nankin .—.— Egg-shell.—Imperial Yellow and Ruby.—Modem Porcelain made at Canton. —Old Sea-green.— Japan Palace at Dresden .—Porcelain of Japan .—Its Character . —Superior to the Chinese.—Porcelain of Persia.—Its doubtful. Manufacture

CHAPTER VII.

PORCELAIN .-—(Hard Paste . European .) ...... 128 Saxony . First European Porcelain made in Dresden .—Bottcher ’s Discovery.—He is removed to Meissen.—Precautions for keeping the Process secret.—Flourishing state of the Manufactory under Royal Patronage .— Description by Jonas Hanway.—Calamitous Effect of the Seven Years’War.— Decay and Decline.— Present State.—Visit of Wedgwood.—Count Briihl’s Tailor.—Lace Figures. —Honeycomb China.—Collection at Japan Palace described by Hanway and Klemm.—Comparison.—Marks. CONTENTS. xiii

CHAPTER VIII. PACK 145 PORCELAIN. —(Hard Paste . European .) . .—Progress under Austria . Imperial Manufactory founded at Vienna of the Ware.— Maria Theresa and Joseph II .—Present State .—Description .—Progress, Specimens.—Mark. Hociist (Mayenee). Established under Ringlcr at Keltersbach. Decline, and Abandonment .—Ware.—Marks.—Manufactory by Duke Charles .— Brunswick . Manufactory established at Fiirstenburg . Manu¬ Progress and Present State .—Description of Ware.—Mark. Bavaria Palatine .— factory established at Frankentlial by Charles Theodore, Elector III ., Elector Progress and Final Abandonment .—Ware.—Marks.—Maximilian Progress and Present of Bavaria, establishes Manufactory at Nymphenburg .— of Manu¬ State .—Ware.—Mark. Baden . Establishment and Destruction at factory.—Mark.—Palace of La Favorite. Wturtemburg . Establishment Hesse . Cassel. Ludwigsburg .—Progress and Present Sate.—Ware .—Marks. .— Manufactory —Supposed Site of Manufactory.—Fulda .—St. Boniface .—Ware.— established by the Prince Abbot.—Progress and Abandonment at Berlin.— Marks. Prussia . Frederick the Great establishes Manufactory Albert , Duke of Progress and Present State.—Ware.—Marks. Thuringia . , &c.—Ware.— Coburg, establishes Manufactories at Rudolstadt . — Gotha by Empress Marks. Russia . Manufactory established at Petersburg . Manu¬ Elizabeth .—Progress and Present State.—Ware.—Mark. Holland the Hague.— factories established during the Seven Years’War at Amstel and . Manufactory Progress and Abandonment .—Wares.—Marks. Denmark Ware.—Marks. at Copenhagen.—Nelson —Progress and Present State .— Progress and Abandon¬ Switzerland . Manufactory established at Zurich .— ment .—Ware .—Mark.—Nions or Nyon.

CHAPTER IX.

.) . . 170. PORCELAIN. —Naturally Soft Paste . (Tendre NatwrMe by William Cheibea . Account of Manufactory by Lister .— Patronised .—Experi¬ Duke of Cumberland .—Rise, Progress, and Final Abandonment Colour.—Marks. ments of Dr. Johnson .—Beauty of Ware.—Forms .—Claret and Abandon¬ —Collections.—Strawberry Hill. Bow. Early Establishment , and Present ment .—Marks. Derby . Established from Chelsea.—Progress by State .—Ware.—Marks. Salopian . Mark. Worcester . Establishment , Bristol, Dr. Wall.—Beauty of the Blue.—Marks. Nantgarrow , Swansea Rockingham , and others. XIV CONTENTS.

CHAPTER X.

PAGE PORCELAIN .— Artificially Soft Paste . (Tendre Artificidle .) 189 . . Manufacture of Porcelain at St. Cloud.—First mentioned by Lister .— Alluded to by Voltaire .—Privileges granted by Louis XIV .—The Minister Orry engages the Brothers Dubois.—A Company established under the name of Charles Adam, at Vincennes.—Patronised by Madame de Pompadour .—■ Perfection of the Porcelain.—Manufactory transferred to Sevres.—Purchased by Louis XV.—Endeavours to make Hard Paste .—Negotiations with Haniing.— Guettard discovers Kaolin at Alenjon .—Madame Damet makes known the Kaolin of St. Yrieix.—Hard Porcelain made.—Manufactory spared in the Revolution.—M. Brongniart appointed by the First Consul.—Beauty of the Pate Tendre .—Its most celebrated Colours.—Rose Dubarry , &c.— Style of Decoration.—Porcelain Flowers of Vincennes.—Exclusive Privilege to gild Porcelain.—Historical Series of Forms .—Marks of the different Periods.— Fraudulent Imitation of Sevres Porcelain .—Celebrated Collections. —Beau Brummell .—Strawberry Hill.—Various Private Collections.—Stowe. — .— Its Quality and Mark.—Villeroy.— Seeaux.— Clignancourt .—Etiolles.—Bourg-lmReine.—Soft Paste of Flanders .— —Lille.—Arras. Tournay.

CHAPTER XI.

MANUFACTURES OF ITALY AND SPAIN . 211 Florence . Marquis of Ginori’s Manufactory at Doccia. Venice. Bassano, at Le Nove. Turin , at Vineuf, by Dr . Gioanetti. Naples . Capo di Monte, established by Charles III .—Chatham Correspondence .—State of the Manufactory under Ferdinand .—Extract from a Letter of Lord Nelson. —Decline and Ruin.—Character of the Porcelain .—Collection at Portici. Spain . Charles III . establishes the Manufactory at Buen Retiro .—Secrecy observed.— Extracts from Swinburne .—Bourgoanne.—Rev.J . Townsend, Don A. Ponz, and Laborde.—Destruction of the Manufactory by the French .— Southey . —Mr. Ford.—Beauty of the Ware. Portugal . . CONTENTS. xv

APPENDIX.

PAGE Glossary of Terms used in the description of Pottery and Porcelain . 225 Table , showing toe various classes of Pottery and Porcelain . . 303 Marks and Monograms . 311 Table of the Marks and Monograms of the Painters , Decorators, and Gilders employed in the Royal Manufacture of S£vres , from 1753 to 1800 335 Chronological Table of the Letters employed at the Sevres Manufactory from 1753 to 1817, to indicate the year in which THE PIECE WAS DECORATED .343

La Fayenoe .345 The Case of the Undertaker of the Chelsea Manufacture of Porcelain Ware . 349 Chronological Table of the Discoveries and progress of the Keramic Art . 353 Chronological Table of the Establishment of Enamelled Pottery . 357 Chronological History of Porcelain . 259 Analysis of the different kinds of Pottery , according to M. Brongniart . 363 Analysis of the different kinds of Porcelain , according to M. Brongniart and others . 364 List of Private Collections of China , etc ., in Great Britain . . 366

Index 369