Show HOW CHINA WARE IS MADE I 1 ChIna 19 so so com common mon a material are apt to overlook it its tta 9 beauty and value some people 6 make collections of 0 pieces of old china chinai as others do of old pictures horace walpole and the people of our great grandfathers time did so BO and now when the news of the tie looting or plundering of the emperor of chinas cainas palace at pekin bas has lately arrived curiosity hunters are anxiously ex expecting p e ti t the e arrival of specimens of the famous lee iee eggshell egg shell I 1 china of which not a single par particle h has bas a beem allowed to leave the imperial capital for the last two hundreds hund hundred redy jeans years tars jars why p are re our OUT cups and saucers saucer bauder called china because the first specimen the manufacture came from that country it is also called pro celain because the word wora pat par collana in Port guese means a little cup and the first traders in the article came from portugal tu gil the first chinaware china ware brought to england was in a portuguese ship snip taken as a it in 1593 prize 1 1 i in manufacturing it the workmen work men takes a certain stone swee called feldspar breaks jt it up washes it aud and preserves the finest portion which sinking to the bottom ol 01 or th the e waier water forms a barda harda bard wll wil white ite mass that ca can qan n be ered ared reduced to a fine powder this is mixed with water till it is like thick cream then pieces of flint which are very hard are buratin burnt in a great kiln fire thrown rea red red hot into cold water and afterward ground fine next the flint and the clay mixtures are brought together when they form a sort of mortar or dough this dough is now trampled on by men with naked feet to squeeze out the air bubbles it is afterward placelia pl placed acelin in a damp cellar t to 0 f ferment e n t and thus get rid of any animal or vegetable ela efa mi e matter it may co etain the ion lon loner longer ioner er it is kept the better the clayis clay is as the chinese keep over fifteen or twenty years yeara and a parent will often of ten provide a sufficient stock lor for his does goes life most pieces of machinery become improved and altered in course ot of time but the potters wheel is much the same bame now in 1861 as it is known to have been nineteen hundred years before christ this spotters dp potters otters wheel is s t small circular board m made a e to revolve very rapidly and on this the clay is measured and its intended shape given to it by the pressure of the fingers and palms of the potters hands handa in the catacombs cata combs of thebes in egypt which are proved to have existed more than three thousand seven hundred years there have been discovered paintings representing various processes 0 of th tha the e potters art and among them a delineation of a potters wheel ex acely like those now in use when the clay vessel is it is partially dried smoothed on a turning lathe and fitted with w I 1 ith spouts handles etc thase those irregularly sloped pieces being cast in molds then they are all baked in a great fierce oven I 1 but when they leave the oven they ook look dull a and d some ladies idies buy th chemin emin n this state clile cilie called bl biscuit i ware because they r resemble ships their own resigns or patterns on them the painting is done with peculiar colors which are afterward burnt burat in the exquisite gr group aup of flowers often found on china ware is ii liaina painted d by ah artist who makes it his sole business to decorate china the gold round the edges is laid on in the leaf then burned in and burnished by rubbin rubbing it with witha a very smooth tool I 1 after pait painting itin iz the tha vessels sels seis they are parcel by being dipped in a mixture of lead and ground flints which looks like cream when taken out of this mixture the paintings are fult fuit quite covered b by it if it is so thick but buton baton on be being ing fired red in an oven the heat beat converts the pasty asty looking covering into a thin coating of blass glass although the chinese made the first china h their manufactures are neither as elegant nor useful as those of america and england buchey but bui they ar are e me more re cur curious fous ious they ornament ext eat their pro cela ceia celain ir innery anery queer style and the theo d division of I 1 labor abr ting zing bing gre great greab t among them and carried even into their oem designs lis ris iaan berent ferent if workmen without any concert co ar plan pian paint successive parts of the same group or picture which contributes to be ros effect of their work they are also igno ignorant radt rant of per der oer spec pec tive so that you see the stran strangest est zest sest effects in what they call landscapes they ey make besides common china several others A black kind much este esteemed emet in the basti east a kind which appears as though it wele were cracked all oer over one in which the tili dolors rotors show only when the vessel is filled with liquid and stilt still another variety in which various figures appear raised on pure white pro celain and yet the surface surle I 1 is smooth they have ey even n built a tower in nankin which it is nearly three hundred feet high and entirely covered with pro celain tiles which look as fresh as when they were first put on four hundred 1 years ago ago r the first attempt to make pro celain in europe was by the moors in spain then a ware called t Ima majohrea maj jobea wast wagi nade at majorca from whence the was removed to italy about the middle middie of the sixteenth century bernard Pa lissy a pro Tro protestant after many trials produced a beautiful enamel glazed vase vasa Pa Palis palls lissys syb sya life whis hyou you should all ali lead read is very interesting tp and shows what patience t en c e a and rid perseverance will wil accomplish an in ahe the seve seventeenth century in england the there was only a common earthenware earthen ware but two german brothers of the name of ellers ellerb discovered a superior clay and after this thia a gentleman named asbury who vrho was e engaged in the manufacture having occasion t to 0 employ as a poultice to hi his s horses eyel noticed their fine white opaque substance stat staf lee tee and added them pase paste of which he made mad hib his us supplying the last tvs vvs ws rf y needed improvement for the perfect perfection loli ioli of the art arl mr josiah wedgewood who vas was as born a poor potters son was the next and greatest improver in the eighteenth century a german n named amed B 0 tt iches while bunting for tile tiie philosophers stone made dresden china by the clay which he used for his crucibles cruci bles bies was discovered in a singular manner john an iron master riding out discovered that hat his horses feet were sticking in i a soft white earth which he used as a substitute for hair powder botticher Botti ches chea used it as such and observing its earthy nature tested it and found it exactly what he wanted to perfect hig big porcelain the El lector then caused the earth to be taken secretly to the factory in sealed barrels every workman wap wab was sworn to secrecy and alid dumb till deatel dea 7 wak wai was inscribed in large letters in all the workshops work shops the next f famous amous works were those of devres |