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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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ages under misleading names, and real China-ware—the first of the famous Dresden China—began to come outof the fortress. At the Worlds Fair of 1893, the Royal Saxon CHINA. 445 potteries exhibited their manufactures, but their art seemed tohave developed into the making of artificial flowers rather thantable ware. The great Porcelain Porch, in the Imperial GermanExhibit, outdid the famous Porcelain tower of Man-King inChina. Did Bottichers secret escape ? Yes. The Emperor of Austria finally founded a factory atVienna, but it never succeeded fully. To start it, a workmanescaped from the prison-like works at the castle of Meissenabout ten years after the first Porcelain was made. The Vien-nese royal pottery ran, however, till 1864. When did the King of France start his Porcelain Factory ? In 1753, when a semi-private factory at Vincennes was removedto the town of Sevres, in the suburbs of Paris. The Frenchchemists actually prepared an artificial Kao-lin, and used it for -m~*-^^ ~f—
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Fig. 167. GILDING THE PORCELAIN. 446 THE FIRESIDE UNIVERSITY. the biscuit until the German secret came out and French Kao-linwas found, in 17 - H, -Hn ynadet White sand, 60; nitre. 22 : sal:. 7.2 ; alum, $-6 S soda, 3.6 ;gvpsum, 3.6. This compound was roasted at a high tempera-ture, then ground to a fine powder, and washed with boilingwater. To nine parts of this mixture, or frit, two parts of chaand one of a pipe-clay were added. This mixture was againground, and passed through silk sieves. It was mixed formolding with water and soap or size, and in this condition wasoperated on by the potter. How docs the Sevres Potter proceed t If making a set of plates or saucers, he takes the potterswheel, exactly as the later Egyptians did, and turns it withhis feet. A mold of a plate is set on the wheel. Forillustration, let us (incorrectly) suppose it be a plate exactly 1the one he is to produce on the wheel. The mold, then, isturned bottom upward. On the bottom of the mold, he spreadsa very t

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