Evening Star Newspaper, April 6, 1930, Page 130

Berore THE TORCH WAS | APPLIED W MAN LEARNED T0 BAKE POTTERY. [ INTHE LATE STONE SEARCHING THROUGH THE EMBERS OF SUCH A PYRE, SOME MAN NOTED FOR THE. LR IVIA N AGE CERTAIN TRIBES | USED.TO CREMATE (BReae={ THE BODIES OF : ' THEIR DEAD CHIEF- TAINS ON HUGE BOUT A CENTURY BEFORE THE BIRTH OF CHRIST THE CHNINESE BEGAN TO PROPUCE EXQUISITE WHITE POTTERY,-PORCELAIN—, BETTER KNOWN AMONG THE WESTERN NATIONS AS “"CHINA". Z Z Z S o A FTER |6 YEARS OF EXPERIMENT- ING(I558),ME HAD IMPOVERISHED HIMSELF AND, AT LAST,TOO POOR TO BUY FUEL,HE TORE UP THE FLOORS OF HIS HOUSE TO FEED HIS OVEN. ——— e HiS FAMILY THOLIGHT HiM A MADMAN. WOMAN OF ST. Y RIELX ,WHILE LOOK- ING FOR BERRIES,CAME UPON A LARGE PATCH OF GREASY WHITE BARTH THAT LOOKED LIKE SOAP. {Copyright, 1930, by J. Carroll Mansfield) = — 3 ; ‘ ARTICLES A TNAT THE DCGCEASED MIGHT NEED ii IN THE NEXT [ . LIFE WERE PLACED ON THE PYRE. NOTE! PORCELAIN ASIT CAME FROM THE KILN WAS WHITE . IT WAS THEN DECORATED. TO BE INTRODUCED INTO EUROPE WAS SENT AS A GIFT TO LORENZO PE MEDIC),DUKE OF FLORENCE, FROM THE SULTAN OF EGYPT IN 1487, A.D BlaLssy FaiLen 1o pupLicaTE THE CHINESE PRODUCT BUT SUCCEEDED IN MAKING BEAUTI- Al !HE TOOK SOME OF THE "'SOAP” HOME WITH NER AND SHOWED IT TO HBR NEIGHBORS. LOCAL POTTERS AT ONCE RECOGNIZED THE SUBSTANCE AS A CLAY FAR SUPERIOR TO ANY THEY HAD BEEN ABLE TO OBTAIN. —— © WP ) e A AS STONE — © HENCEFORTH irs PURE WHITENESS, HARPAESS AND TRANSLUCENCY WAS THE DESPAIR OF EUROPEAN POTTERS, WHO TRIED FOR MANY YEARS TO DUPLICATE \T BUT WITHOUT SUCCESS. /), oo 20 L A - WESECRET OF PORCELAIN LAY NOT IN THE MANUFACTURE BuT IN THE CLAY OF WHICH T WAS MADE - A WONDERFUL CLAY CALLED "KAOLIN" THAT TOOK \TS NAME HE WAS LATER REWARDED WATH! FROM A HILL IN CHINA WHERE IT ,/ .HE NEWS OF THIS DISCOVERY STAIIED A WIDE SEARCH FOR KACLIN WITH THE RESULT THAT OTHER DEPOSITS OF THMLS CLAY WERE LOCATED, AND POTTERS ALL OVER WESTERN EUROPE AND IN AMERICA BEGAN PRODUCING CHINA. iERNARI? PALISSY, A FRENCH POTTER,BELIEVED THE SECRET LAY IN FIRING THE WARE UNDER INTENSE MEAT, AND BEGAN TO MAKE EXPERIMENTS IN HIS OWN HOME.—* = el S , A NEARBY TOWN WHERE PORCELAIN FIRST WAS MAD! BECAME THE GREAT CENTER OF THE INDUSTRY AND> BY THE (8TH CENTURY HAD NO LESS THAN 3,000 KILNS, .s TIME WENT ON THE QUALITY OF CHINA WAS STEADILY IMPROVED, DURING THE 18™ CENTURY GREAT PORCELAIN FACTORIES, GENERALLY UNDER ROYAL PATRONAGE, WERE ESTABLISH- £5 IN MANY LANDS. ABOUT THIS TIME THE ENGLISH DEVELOPED A NEW KIND OF CHINA ~BONE CHINA, BY ADDING CALCINED OX BONES TO THE OTHER. ; INGREDIENTS .~ conmvuenfil