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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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in made at many famous factories long beforeSpodes time. If there be one ingredient in these porcelains ofwhich ccinstancy in amount can be predicated more than any other,it is either the silica or the phosphate of lime, but, in most cases,the latter. In endeavouring to separate the productions of Bow from thoseof Chelsea and of other factories there are very great difficulties.The pieces were more frequently unmarked than marked, even ifwe are right in assigning such signs as the dagger or Latin crossassociated with an anchor, and an arrow with an annulet onthe shaft, to the Essex factory. The only sure guides whichconnoisseurs possess at present are founded on a comparison ofthe paste and decoration of Crafts bowl in the British Museum,and of the fragments disinterred on the site of the Bow works, withsuch extant specimens of old soft porcelain which might otherwisebe attributed to Chelsea. The Bow memorandum books andadvertisements of sales before referred to, aid us in making such
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Fig. 16.—BOW : DESSERT DISH. Museum of Practical Geology.

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