Chinese Porcelain
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Chinese Porcelain - O. du Sartel
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Introduction
Porcelain was certainly invented in China. This is acknowledged in England by the adoption of the word china
as equivalent to porcelain. Even in Persia, the only country to which an independent invention of the material has been attributed by some writers and where Chinese porcelain has been known and imitated for centuries, the word chini carries a similar connotation.
For the creation of a scientific classification of ceramic products, it may be necessary to define here the distinctive characteristics of porcelain. Porcelain ought to have a white, translucent, hard paste, to be scratched by steel, homogeneous, resonant and vitrified, exhibiting, when broken, a conchoidal fracture of fine grain and brilliant aspect. These qualities inherent in porcelain make it impermeable to water and enable it to resist the action of frost even when uncoated with glaze. Among the characteristics of the paste given above, translucency and vitrification define porcelain best. If either of these two qualities is absent, the material is considered a different kind of pottery. If the paste possesses all the other properties with the exception of translucency, it is stoneware; if the paste is not vitrified, it belongs to the category of terracotta or of faïence.
The Chinese define porcelain under the name of tz’u, a character first found in books of the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.E.-221 C.E.), as a hard, compact, fine-grained pottery (t’ao); they distinguish it by the clear, musical note that it gives out on percussion and by testing that it cannot be scratched by a knife. They do not insist on the whiteness of the paste or on its translucency, so some pieces may fail in these two points when the fabric is coarse. However, it would be difficult to separate these elements from porcelain’s character. Porcelain may be divided into two classes: hard paste, containing only natural elements in the composition of the body and the glaze, and soft paste, where the body is an artificial combination of various materials fused by the action of the fire, in which a compound called frit has been used as a substitute for natural rock. All Chinese porcelain is of the hard paste variety. The body consists essentially of two elements: the white clay kaolin, the unctuous and infusible element that gives plasticity to the paste, and the feldspathic stone petuntse, which is fusible at a high temperature and gives transparency to the porcelain.
Of the two Chinese names that have become classical since they were adopted by the West, kaolin
is the name of a locality near Jingdezhen where the best porcelain earth is mined and petuntse
, literally white briquettes
, refers to the shape in which the finely pulverised porcelain stone is brought to the potteries,