18th and 19th Century Porcelain Analysis by Howell G. M. Edwards

Author:Howell G. M. Edwards
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030421922
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Specimen

Type

Date

Analyst(s)

SiO2

Al2O3

CaO

P2O5

K2O

Na2O

MgO

Fe2O3

PbO

Fulham Pottery

Shards

~ 1680

Tite et al. (1986) and Spataro et al. (2008)

76.9

18.0

0.3

–

2.7

0.4

0.3

0.6

–

Burghley House

Virtues Jar

~1675

Spataro et al. (2008)

66.8

18.2

0.6

–

4.5

1.6

1.5

1.1

2.2

Small Jar

~1675

69.0

18.9

1.4

0.1

5.8

1.4

0.5

0.6

1.7

In summary, it can be stated with some confidence that recent research has shown very conclusively that there was a English porcelain and vitreous ceramics industry operating in the late seventeenth century which occupied the attention of some of the finest intellectuals and experimental scientists, and that porcelain was possibly being successfully made perhaps some 35–40 years prior to the claim by Meissen in 1709. The question as to whether or not this advance was led by John Dwight and his associates at Fulham must still remain unanswered. Expert opinion is still divided on this, with Ramsay and Ramsay (The Evolution and Compositional Development of English Porcelains from the 16th Century to Lund’s Bristol c. 1750 and Worcester c. 1752 – the Golden Chain, 2017) being supportive of the advent of the production of seventeenth century porcelain in England but Spataro et al. (2008) alternatively casting some doubt upon this. Of course, neither the early English nor the German porcelains can be regarded now as being in the category of “true” porcelains as befits the Chinese formulations and recipes, which were very different from them compositionally, for their export wares had not yet reached Europe in large quantities, and indeed did not do so until later in the first quarter of the eighteenth century.

References

B. Adams, True Porcelain Pioneers: The Cookworthy Chimera, 1670–1782 (B. Adams, Dawlish, 2016)

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