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Identifier: firesideuniversi01mcgo (find matches)
Title: The fireside university of modern invention, discovery, industry and art for home circle study and entertainment
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: McGovern, John. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Chicago, Union pub. house
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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question of care enters into the problem of owning suchutensils. What did our great-grandfathers eat on ? Usually on silver or pewter plate. A few of the people hadsets of the rude, blue China, made by the Dutch, in imitation ofthe Chinese ware How did the Western nations learn of the Chinese Pottery? Pere Dentrecolles, a missionary, gives the first Europeansaccount, in Du Haldes Description of the Chinese Empire.Father Du Halde was secretary of the Jesuit Society that sentout the missionaries. / am curious to know about this Chinese art as it waspractised at home. The first porcelain furnace on record was in the province oiKeang-Si, the same province that now leads in the manufacture.The felspar clay called Kao-lin by the Chinese was called porce-lain by the Spaniards, after the porcellana shell. The shell wasnamed from porcella, Spanish for little hog. Du Halde did notbelieve that the Chinese words for their blue and white substancescould be translated. 440 THE FIRESIDE UNIVERSITY.
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CHINA. 441 What did Father Dentrecolles see ? At the city of King-te-Ching (near Mount Kao-lin) there werethree thousand ovens in operation, with great multitudes of work-men. The Chinese used two clays in each dish—one was thewhite earth found near the mountain of Kao-lin, whence its name.The other clay was pe-tzm-stey and it is not yet known what thatis. How they prepared their famous, rather ugly, blue color isnot exactly known. A great lake, three hundred miles in circuit,furnished the only water with which the potters could maketheir best Chinaware. The same workmen and clays producedinferior Chinaware with the water of other places. No strangerwas permitted to visit the borders of this lake, which hadprobably deposited the sand called Kao-lin. Who was Marco Polo ? A Venetian historian, who traveled in Asia five hundred andfifty years ago. Following is his passage on Porcelain: Of theCity of Tin-gui there is nothing further to be observed than thatcups or bowls and dishes of Po

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