Antique porcelain digest / by Cleo M. Scott and G. Ryland Scott, Jr.
1961, First Edition. Newport : Ceramic Book Co. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #437110
Physical description; xvi, 200 pages 180 plates (some color) 29 cm. Notes; Illus. (some col.) incl. plates and facsimiles of marks. Includes bibliographical references (page 141). Contents; Incomplete contents Foreword -- Introduction -- General information: Ceramic art -- True or hard past porcelain -- Artifical or soft paste porcelain -- Bone china -- Ch. 1. Oriental porcelain -- Chinese porcelain (618-1796) -- Japanese or Korean porcelain (1650-1700) -- Ch. 2. German and Austrian porcelain -- The Meissen factory (1709-1750) -- The Böttger period (1709-1719) -- Johann Gregor Herold at Meissen (1720-1735) -- The Kändler, or Plastic Period (1735-1750) -- Vienna porcelain (1718-1800) -- The six major German factories (after Meissen) -- Lesser German facotires (1758-1800) -- Ch. 3. Scandinavian, Swiss and other continental factories (1758-1800) -- Ch. 4. Italian porcelain (1575-1800) -- Ch. 5. French porcelain (1673-1800) -- Ch. 6. English porcelain -- Ch. 7. American porcelain. Subjects; Geschichte. Porcelain History. Porcelain Collectors and collecting. Porcelain.
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