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Book Beauties of England and Wales

Download or read book Beauties of England and Wales written by Britton and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nantgarw and Swansea Porcelains

Download or read book Nantgarw and Swansea Porcelains written by Howell G.M. Edwards and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a detailed account of the holistic research carried out on the analytical data obtained historically on the products of the Nantgarw and Swansea porcelain manufactories which existed for a few years only during the second decade of the 19th Century. A background to the establishment of the two factories, which are linked through the persons of the enigmatic William Billingsley and his kiln manager, Samuel Walker, involves the sourcing of their raw materials and problems associated with the manufacture and distribution of the finished products. A description of the minerals and additives used in porcelain production is recounted to set the scene for the critical evaluation of the comprehensive analytical data which have been published on Nantgarw and Swansea porcelains. For the first time, the author has adopted a nondestructive technique, Raman spectroscopy, to interrogate perfect samples of Nantgarw and Swansea porcelain, as well as a selection of shards from an archaeological excavation carried out at a waste dump at the Nantgarw China Works site. Following these experiments, several questions relating to the porcelain bodies of Swansea and Nantgarw china can be answered and a protocol established for the preliminary evaluation of items of suspect attribution to confirm or not the correctness of their assignment to these Welsh porcelain factories.

Book Welsh Armorial Porcelain

Download or read book Welsh Armorial Porcelain written by Howell G. M. Edwards and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armorial porcelains comprised the output of most European ceramics factories in the 18th and 19th Centuries in response to the large quantity of armorial porcelain services that were being imported from China bearing the coats of arms and crests of aristocratic families. Whereas these armorial services have been identified and covered for most porcelain manufactories the information relevant to their production by the two relatively short-lived Nantgarw and Swansea China Works has not been addressed as a theme until now. As an integral component of the holistic forensic appraisal of porcelain, a functional and decorative artwork manifestly part of our cultural heritage and its ongoing preservation , the recording and identification of such artefacts is material for the future establishment of a database of factory production . The Nantgarw and Swansea factories only operated for a limited period in the second decade of the 19th Century and their porcelains were much appreciated for their high quality and desirability by Georgian households. Today, examples are to be found in many museums and ceramics collections and continue to excite the interest of specialists and the general public . This text provides the first comprehensive assessment of armorial porcelains from these two factories and the methodology and procedure for the identification of unknown armorial bearings and crests is illustrated; individual bearings are discussed in detail and existing incorrect assignments in the literature are re-appraised. The difficulties in attribution of armorial heraldic achievements that are only minimally depicted are considered and directions for further studies using historical documentation are invoked. This book therefore fills a currently existing gap in the ceramics literature of the 19th Century.

Book The Beauties of England and Wales  Or  Delineations  Topographical  Historical  and Descriptive  of Each County  pt  1  Shropshire   Somersetshire

Download or read book The Beauties of England and Wales Or Delineations Topographical Historical and Descriptive of Each County pt 1 Shropshire Somersetshire written by Edward Wedlake Brayley and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Beauties of England and Wales

Download or read book The Beauties of England and Wales written by and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Beauties of England and Wales  Or  Original Delineations  Topographical  Historical  and Descriptive of Each County

Download or read book The Beauties of England and Wales Or Original Delineations Topographical Historical and Descriptive of Each County written by J. Nightingale and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chelsea Porcelain

Download or read book Chelsea Porcelain written by B. Elizabeth Adams and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Adams charts the progress of Sprimont's venture and describes in detail the wares now known as Chelsea. She reconstructs the history of the Chelsea porcelain factory, from its setting up to its final destruction.

Book The Antiquary

Download or read book The Antiquary written by Edward Walford and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Armorial Porcelain

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  • Author : Rachel L. Denyer
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 3031637453
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book Armorial Porcelain written by Rachel L. Denyer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 18th and 19th Century Porcelain Analysis

Download or read book 18th and 19th Century Porcelain Analysis written by Howell G. M. Edwards and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the contributions made by analytical chemistry to the characterisation of 18th and early 19th Century English and Welsh porcelains commencing with the earliest reports of Sir Arthur Church and of Herbert Eccles and Bernard Rackham using chemical digestion techniques and concluding with the most recent instrumental experiments, which together span more than a hundred years of study. From the earliest experiments which required necessarily the sacrifice of significant portions of each specimen, which may already have been damaged , to the latest experiments which needed only microsampling or the non-destructive interrogation of valuable perfect specimens a comprehensive survey is undertaken of more than twenty manufactories of quality porcelains. The correlation is made between the quantitative elemental oxide determinations of the scanning electron microscopic diffraction and Xray fluorescence data and the qualitative molecular spectroscopic Raman data to demonstrate their complementarity and use in the holistic forensic assessment of the origin of the fired procelains ; this will form the groundwork for the adoption of analytical techniques for the attribution of unknown or questionable procelains to their potential source factories . The book will also examine the perception of what constitutes a porcelain and its definitions and examines the assignment of porcelains to types which currently employs the definitions of hard paste , soft paste , hybrid , magnesian and bone china from the conclusions derived from the analytical data and a consideration of the raw materials employed in their manufacturing processes. During the discussion of this analytical evidence several themes and protocols have been established for its utilisation in the potential identification of porcelains and several case studies undertaken for this purpose are cited. The book will be of interest to analytical scientists , to museum ceramics curators and to ceramics historians.

Book The Connoisseur

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  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 804 pages

Download or read book The Connoisseur written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cyclop  dia of Useful Arts  Mechanical and Chemical  Manufactures  Mining and Engineering      Illustrated by Forty Steel Engravings  Etc  Edited by C  Tomlinson

Download or read book Cyclop dia of Useful Arts Mechanical and Chemical Manufactures Mining and Engineering Illustrated by Forty Steel Engravings Etc Edited by C Tomlinson written by Charles Tomlinson and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Antique Dealer and Collectors  Guide

Download or read book The Antique Dealer and Collectors Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales  Adapted to the New Poor law  Franchise  Municipal and Ecclesiastical Arrangements  and Compiled with a Special Reference to the Lines of Railroad and Canal Communication as Existing in 1845 6

Download or read book The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales Adapted to the New Poor law Franchise Municipal and Ecclesiastical Arrangements and Compiled with a Special Reference to the Lines of Railroad and Canal Communication as Existing in 1845 6 written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Swansea and Nantgarw Porcelains

Download or read book Swansea and Nantgarw Porcelains written by Howell G.M. Edwards and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes a holistic study of the porcelain manufactured at Nantgarw and Swansea in the first quarter of the 19th Century, using both scientific analytical data and historical provenancing. This porcelain is acclaimed as some of the finest and most translucent porcelain ever produced. These two porcelain factories are linked through the artistic and creative activities of the enigmatic William Billingsley and had a strictly limited production over only three or four years during the period 1812-1820. The earliest chemical analysis of these porcelains were undertaken almost 100 years ago and are compared with the results of more recent analyses The chemical composition of these porcelains, their artistic decoration and the struggle to maintain quality production is reviewed. Scientific explanations are proposed for the characteristic Swansea duck-egg porcelain translucency and for the Nantgarw iridescence. The book is well illustrated throughout and affords a good basis for the further in-depth study of Swansea and Nantgarw porcelains.

Book The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales

Download or read book The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: