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Title: English porcelain : a handbook to the china made in England during the eighteenth century as illustrated by specimens in the national collections
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Church, A. H. (Arthur Herbert), 1834-1915 South Kensington Museum
Subjects: Pottery, English
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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Fig. 2.—CHELSEA : SNUFF BOX. Schreiber Collection. pIG< 3.—CHELSEA : SNUFF BOX. Schkeiber Collection.
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, 4. CHELSEA: CHINESE FIGURE ; EARLY PERIOD. CHELSEA. 21 that auction (in 1756) comprised over 1,600 lots, and more than6,500 pieces. In 1757 the activity of the works slackened,ceasing in 1758, the manfacture being resumed in 1759. Fromthat date all the china made at Chelsea was, we believe,phosphatic, that is, it contained bone-ash in the body; alsothe use of gold in its decoration became at that time morefrequent and more lavish ; figures with gilding upon them arenot indeed so much as mentioned in the sale catalogue of1756. There is a frequent peculiarity of the earlier body whichmay be named here. It was first noticed by Dr. H. W.Diamond that the soft waxen pieces of Chelsea porcelain,which belong to the first period, often exhibit, when we view acandle through them, a number of moon-like discs, scatteredabout the pieces irregularly, and more translucent than therest of the material. They seem to be due to an irregular andexcessive aggregation of that vitreous part of the frit wh

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