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bone china bone china
bone china variety of porcelain developed by English potters in the last half of the 18th and early 19th cent. The clay is tempered with phosphate of lime or bone ash. This innovation greatly increased the strength of the porcelain during and after firing. Bibliography: See B. and T. Hughes,... Read more
porcelain porcelain
porcelain [Ital. porcellana ], white, hard, permanent, nonporous pottery having translucence which is resonant when struck. Porcelain was first made by the Chinese to withstand the great heat generated in certain parts of their kilns. The two natural substances used were kaolin, also known as... Read more
Alexandre Brongniart Alexandre Brongniart
Alexandre Brongniart , 1770-1847, French geologist, mineralogist, and chemist. As director of the Sèvres porcelain factory from 1800, he was responsible for its international fame. He was professor of mineralogy at the Museum of Natural History in Paris from 1822-47. Brongniart established... Read more
Louis Jacques Thenard Louis Jacques Thenard
Louis Jacques Thénard , 1777-1857, French chemist. He became professor at the Collège de France (1802), dean of the Faculty of Sciences, Paris (1821), chancellor of the Univ. of Paris (1832), and was made a baron in 1825. He collaborated with Gay-Lussac in studies of boron, chlorine,... Read more
Henri Victor Regnault Henri Victor Regnault
Henri Victor Regnault , 1810-78, French physicist and chemist. He was professor of chemistry at the École polytechnique, Paris, from 1840 and at the Collège de France from 1841; he became chief engineer of mines (1847) and director of the porcelain manufactory at Sèvres (1854).... Read more
Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (b Limoges, 25 Feb. 1841; d Cagnes-sur-Mer, 3 Dec. 1919). French Impressionist painter. He was born into a poor family and in 1854, aged 13, he began work as a painter in a porcelain factory in Paris, gaining experience with the light, fresh colours that were to distinguish... Read more
decalcomania decalcomania
decalcomania. A technique for producing pictures by transferring an image from one surface to another. It is thought to have been invented by the Spanish Surrealist Oscar Domínguez (1906–58) in Paris in about 1935, although the term had been applied in the 19th century to a similar... Read more
Sevres Sevres
Sèvres , town (1990 pop. 22,057), Hauts-de-Seine dept., N central France, on the Seine River; a residential suburb SW of Paris. The famous Sèvres ware porcelain is made in the town, which has a ceramics museum founded by Alexandre Brongniart and a ceramics school. Explosives,... Read more
earthenware earthenware
earthenware form of pottery fired at relatively low temperatures, so that the clay does not vitrify (become glassy), as do stoneware and porcelain clays. Occasionally, earthenware is used as a general term for all kinds of pottery.... Read more
Chalkboard Chalkboard
Chalkboard Background The chalkboard is a flat, vertical writing surface on which anything can be inscribed by means of a piece of chalk. The device is generally used for educational purposes, but it can also be found in the workplace, the home, and restaurants. While... Read more

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