The minor English factories of the eighteenth century, such as those of LONGTON HALL, in Staffordshire, LOWESTOFT, and CAUGHLEY, were either of too short a duration to arrive at any high level of technical attainment, or were devoted almost entirely to the manufacture of commonplace wares for ordinary domestic uses. The great extension of the porcelain industry in this country, which signalised the opening of the nineteenth century, was not productive of any noteworthy results from an artistic point of view. At the short-lived Welsh factories of NANTGARW and SWANSEA, it is true, a glassy paste was invented which was shown to be capable of beautiful effects, but the numerous STAFFORDSHIRE firms and the famous ROCKINGHAM works at Swinton in Yorkshire fell under the ban of the same artistic decadence that has been noticed in speaking of Derby and Worcester; they saved themselves from financial disasters by following the demands instead of guiding the taste of a severely commercial age. Those who are in search of what is beautiful or vital in English porcelain will be content to confine their attentions to the eighteenth century.
Jar, Chinese, early Ming dynasty, with decoration in slightly raised outline filled in with coloured glazes, the rim fitted in Persia with a chased brass mount. Height, 12½ in.
Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony, 17, 65, 69, 76
Blue, mazarine, 81 powdered, 20, 85 scale, 85
Classical style, 46, 57, 62, 68, 69, 70, 83
Dresden, collection, 17 _Steinbäckerei_, 66
_Famille noire_, 23 _rose_, 25, 76 _verte_, 14, 21, 24, 52, 80
Ferdinand I., of Tuscany, 42, 45 IV., of the Two Sicilies, 46
Figures, Bow, 76 Chelsea, 77, 79 Chinese, 24 Frankenthal, 71 Höchst, 69 Ludwigsburg, 70 Meissen, 67, 76, 78 Mennecy, 54 Nymphenburg, 76 Sèvres, 59
Frederick VI., King of Denmark, 71 the Great, 71
Gold, experiments for making, 65 pink derived from, 24 leaf, decoration in, 66
India, 16 china, 27 Companies, 16, 17, 18, 27, 80, 82
Jones Collection, 16, 18, 57, 60, 61, 68, 81, 84
Louis XIV., king, 18, 50 XV., king, 55, 57, 61 XVI., king, 16, 58, 61, 68 Henri de Bourbon, 52 Philippe, duc d’Orléans, 53
Meissen, 19, 33, 44, 45, 53, 56, 60, 66, 69, 71, 78, 80
_Rose_, _famille_, 25, 76 _Pompadour_, 56, 81