Look up Royal Copenhagen some time, and see how beautiful it is.
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Denmark gave a real contribution to the world in its Copenhagen ware, a type of white porcelain decorated beneath the glaze in cobalt.
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One of the most perfect of English porcelains, known as Spode, was produced by combining with this type of paste pulverized bones.
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Didn't the English ever make any real hard paste china?" asked Theo. "It is said that between 1730 and 1744 they did make some; and this product is supposed to be the only true porcelain ever made in England.
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We call everything dating up to 1800 Old Sèvres, and you will probably find it so marked in both public and private collections."
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Sky blue!" put in Theo. "There was also a rare canary yellow; an apple green; a fine tone of violet; and a bright red that had not been seen before in the china world.
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King's blue," murmured Theo. "Bleu Celeste, a turquoise blue made from copper——"
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At the present time a color known as Rose du Barry brings the highest price in old Sèvres.
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Satsuma is a pottery in which they excelled. It has a body of cream-colored earthenware not unlike Wedgwood's Queen's ware, and this is richly decorated in dull colors and gold. In order to please the Dutch traders the Japanese
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before even such a simple article as a cup was completed it frequently passed through as many as seventy pairs of hands.