Tabulated View.--Brongniart's Division: Its Objections.--Classification adopted.--Leading Features and Advantages.--Distinctions between Different Bodies and Different Glazes.....54
Hard and Soft Pottery and Porcelain.--COMPOSITION OF PORCELAIN: Kaolin--Its Derivation and Ingredients--Petuntse--How prepared in China.--The European Process.--Differences between Chinese and European Porcelains.--Chemical Analysis.--English Porcelain and its Peculiarities: Its Average Composition.--How English Clay is prepared.--French Artificial Porcelain.--Parian.--COMMON EARTHEN-WARE: Table of Ingredients of different kinds.--General Table.--GLAZES: Classes.--Brongniart's Classification.--Difference between Enamel and Glaze.--Silicious Glaze.--History.--Use of Oxides.--Egyptian Processes.--Metallic Lustre.--Stanniferous Enamel: Its History.....59
Divisions of Chapter.--Japanese Method of Preparing Porcelain Clay.--Old Sèvres Soft Porcelain.--Pug-Mill.--Blunger.--Early Italian Methods.--Shaping the Clay.--Moulding among the Egyptians, Greeks, Italians, and at the Present Day.--Moulding Porcelain.--Japanese Method.--European.--Throwing.--The Potter's Wheel in all Countries.--Baking and Firing.--Egyptian, Greek, Italian, and Japanese Kilns.--Those of Modern Europe and America.--Times of Firing.--Glazing and Painting.--Metallic-Lustre Majolica.--Japanese Methods.--Glazing Stone-ware.--Natural and Artificial Porcelain.....66
The East the Cradle of Art.--The Antiquity of Egypt: Its Claim to Notice in every Branch of Inquiry.--The Fountains of Oriental and Greek Art.--The Nile Clay.--Egypt's Early Maturity.--Limitation of Material.--Effect of Religion upon Art.--Two Periods in Art History.--Ancient Religion.--Various Symbols.--UNGLAZED POTTERY--_Sun-dried_: Bricks.--Moulds, Stamps, etc.--Vessels.--_Baked Ware_: Its Early Date.--Color of Vessels and Bricks.--Coffins.--Cones.--Figures.--Sepulchral Vases.--Amphoræ and other Vessels.--Decoration.--Græco-Egyptian Pottery.--GLAZED WARE, miscalled Porcelain: Its Nature, and how Colored.--Wall Tiles.--Inlaying of Mummy Cases.--Personal Ornaments.--Images.--Beads, etc.--Vases.--Bowls.--Glazed Schist.--Stanniferous Enamel.....82
Possible Priority to Egyptian Pottery.--Similarity between Assyrian and Egyptian.--The Course followed by both Arts.--Unbaked Bricks.--Baked Bricks.--Writing Tablets.--Seals.--Vases.--Terra-cottas.--Porcelain.--Glazing and Enamelling.--Tin.--Colored Enamels.--Babylonian Bricks.--Glazes.....97