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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. Cover a bit worn hence only good. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Until the mid-eighteenth century the manufacture of hard porcelain was limited to China and the Far East by the lack of a substance kaolin which makes the single firing of hard porcelain possible. With the discovery of deposits of kaolin in France began a period of fine and far-ranging production of some of the most beautiful porcelains in the western world. In this first study to date on the porcelains of Paris Madame de Guillebon traces the history of the manu- facture of porcelain using previously unpublished documents as source material. She thus situates the production of porcelain in an historical and economic context-something that has never before been done. PARIS PORCELAIN deals with the era from the first tentative production of French hard porcelain through the middle of the nineteenth century. A historical survey of the major factories includes the workshops of the Comte d’Artois the Comte de Provence the Queen of France the Duc d’Angoul?me the Darte Brothers Dihl and Gu?rhard Dagoty and Honor? and Jacob-Petit. Among the illustrations are photographs of chinaware from museums and private and public collections in France Great Britain the United States Spain Portugal Sweden and Switzer- land. (OS)