PORCELAIN AND FAIENCE. 
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kaolin, 0 to 15 of Cornish stone, or 40 to 50 per cent. of tkese 
clay materials, to which is added 25 to 45 per cent of sul- 
phate of barytes, 0 to 10 per cent. of flint, and 0 to 2 per 
cent. of gypsum. Twenty per cent. of calcined bone is 
soraetimes added. Half of one per cent. of cobalt gives this 
body a blue color; one per cent. of clirome, a dark green; 
nickel, a light green; copper, bluish green. Basalts and the 
Egyptiau wäre are made by introducing some forty per cent. 
of burnt ochre, and sometimes ten per cent of mill iron cin- 
der.* In additiou to the bas-relief unglazed, and jasper 
wäre, the establishment now turns out annually large quanti- 
ties of the ordinary stoue-china glazed wäre, plain and dec- 
orated. Full dinner-servicqs, ornamented with fern leaves, 
flowers, or autumn leaves, can be had at the works for be- 
tween £10 and £11. The printing of armorial bearings, 
crests, or monograms upon the wäre from engraved copper- 
plates, is an important brauch of the decorative work. 
Plates so ornamented to order, and with a single band of 
color at the edge, can be had at 7s. Gd. the dozcn. 
No porcelain is now made. Its production was carried on 
for a short time about the year 1808 by the nephew of Mr. 
Wedgwood. A small amount of majolica is manufactured, 
and some ornamental objccts, among them examples of the 
" email ombrant,” which consists of dcpressed desigus, chi'efly 
of human ffgures and animals, into which transparent colored 
enamel is allowed to flow. 
The following list of picces, composing complete dinner 
and dessert Services, and a scale of prices for Services and for 
pieces sepalately, at Etruria, will be found useful for refer- 
ence and comparison :— 
* Beckwith’s Pottery, etc., p. 24. 
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