Porcelain

• Blanc De Chine is a pure white porcelain with a smooth glaze made at the Dehua kilns in Fujian province, China.
• Famille Rose is so-called because a beautiful rose-color a later addition to the porcelain painter’s palette is a conspicuous color and often imparts the prevailing tone.
• Famille Verte is so-called because the prevailing or dominating color is a vivid enamel leaf-green.
• Kakiemon was connected with the works in Arita, porcelain factories were later established in this province.
• Imari Ware is the Japanese porcelain produced in the locality of Arita in southern Japan and exported around the world through the nearby port of Imari. Its manufacture, however, is still an important local industry to the present day.
• Meissen ware porcelain was the first true version of the Chinese type produced in Europe
• Doccia was founded by Carlo Ginori in 1735, as a porcelain factory at Doccia. The body made use of the paste called Masso Bastardo, a hybrid composition of soft pastes consisting of magnesium and clay from Monte Carlo.
• The Capodimonte porcelain factory was established by Charles III, King of Naples. It was characterized by Rococo motifs, later on, after the discovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum carried Classical forms.
• Sévres was created in the Rococo manner. Later, Directoire and Empire motifs were applied.
• Bow ware porcelain was made in accordance with the specification of white glassy body probably flawed by fire cracks, specked and slightly warped.
• Worcester is a tableware so closely identical with the chinaware imported from the East.
• Bristol was the joint venture of William Cookworthy and Richard Champion. Festoons and wreaths of green leaves became the characteristic motif of this ware, these wreaths sometimes enclosed medallions with a chocolate ground on which appeared classic figures in grisaille.