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Show PORCELAIN DUE TO ACCIDENT How the Process of Enameling Was Discovered by Chinese Workers About 206 D. C. Near tho ear 206 11. C, In tho beginning be-ginning of the dynasty of Han, some uarktrs In earthenware set their pots In the oven to bake, and forgot them. When they remembered them and opened the oen doors they found that the pots were vitrified In shining spots. In this way the enameling of porcelain was dlscovired. When freed of Its dross the substnnco grew lighter, become clear, and acquired a grain as fine and smooth as velvet vel-vet and a thin, hard, translucent body that rang like a bell Tho art of monochromatic glazing was discovered In the time of the dynasty of Sung (9001280 I). C.) Occasionally tho action of tho fire separated sep-arated the pigments and produced excessive ex-cessive richness of color. Tho Mongol Mon-gol Invasion checked tho progress of ceramic art. In 1368 Tnl-Teu, tho son of a day laborer, dethroned the emperor and founded the dynasty of Ming, whose reign persisted until 1044. Tal-Tsu lost no tlmo In restoring restor-ing tho Imperial manufactories. Ho gave tho national manufactory tho monopoly of tho work In porcelain, excepting ex-cepting nothliiR but tho white pottery manufactured by tho artisans of Tehua. Under tho new Impetus nil tho ancient methods wero revived and porfected. The system of three-color and five-color decoration, after n preliminary pre-liminary firing, dates from the renaissance re-naissance of art under tho Ming dynasty. dy-nasty. Harper's Weekly. |
