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Minton’s,  Stoke-upon-Trent,  and  28  Walbrook,  London.
—This  well-known  firm  made  a  fiue  display  of  china  and
earthemvare,  diuner,  dessert,  tea,  and  toilet  Services;  china,
majolica,  and  parian  vases,  statuettes  and  other  Ornaments;
enamelled  tiles  for  walls,  grates,  liearths,  and  flower-boxes.
To  this  enumeration  must  be  added  a  novelty  in  British
manufacture,  pätesur-päte  decoration,  a  process  which  originated
  at  Sevres  in  1847,  under  Ebelman,  though  kuown  long
before  in  China.  A  series  of  plates  and  some  vases  gave
satisfactory  evideuce  of  the  complete  success  which  has  attended
  the  efforts  to  introduce  the  process  in  England,  by
the  aid  of  M.  Solon,  from  Sevres,  who  removed  to  England
duriug  the  Franco-German  war.  The  nature  of  the  process
is  indicated  by  the  name:  the  design  is  worked  upon  the
plate  in  paste  or  thin^porcelain  body,  the  same  as  the  body
of  the  plate  itself.  Bat  the  body  of  the  plate  or  foundation
for  the  design  is  previously  colored  a  pale  celadon  grcen  or  a
darker  color  (some  were  dark-brown  or  black),  and  the  design, ­
  bcing  worked  over  this,  permits  the  color  to  be  seen
through  the  thin  or  depressed  portions  after  vitrification,  and
thus  deepens  or  forms  the  shades,  while  the  thicker  portions
of  the  paste  show  less  of  the  ground-work  color,  are  hio-her.
and  give  the  lights  an  appearance  of  a  higher  degree  of  relief
to  the  surface  than  actually  exists.  When  the  design  is
finished  and  the  piece  is  fired  and  glazcd,  the  translucency  of
the  design  is  heightened,  and  the  whole  forms  a  homogeneous
mass.
This  series  of  specimens  attracted  great  attention,  and  all
were  sohl  before  the  close  of  the  exhibition  to  various
museums,  as  high  as  $100  being  paid  for  a  single  plate.
One  of  these  plates  may  be  seen  at  the-Boston  Athenanun.
Pate  Changeante.
The  Messrs.  Minton  also  make  the  peculiar  chameleon
wäre,  or  pgte  changeante,  which  appears  of  one  color  by  solar
light  and  another  by  artificial  light.  In  the  daylight  it  is  a
grayish  or  celadon-green,  and  at  night  is  pink  or  crimson.
This  kind  of  paste  was  iuvented  by  the  chemist  Regnault,
when  Director  of  the  S«$&§Hfi?tttblishinent.