Chapter II: Preface: , v

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, xii

SELECTED LIST OF WORKS ON PORCELAIN, xxvi

KEY TO THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LIST, xxxiii

LIST OF WORKS ON OTHER SUBJECTS REFERRED TO IN THE TEXT, xxxv

CHAPTER I. Introductory and Scientific, 1

CHAPTER II. The Materials: Mixing, Fashioning, and Firing, 14

CHAPTER III. Glazes, 30

CHAPTER IV. Decoration by means of Colour, 38

CHAPTER V. The Porcelain of China. Introductory--Classification--The Sung Dynasty--The Mongol or Yuan Dynasty, 49

CHAPTER VI. The Porcelain of China (_continued_). The Ming Dynasty, 78

CHAPTER VII. The Porcelain of China (_continued_). The Manchu or Tsing Dynasty, 96

CHAPTER VIII. The Porcelain of China (_continued_). Marks, 117

CHAPTER IX. The Porcelain of China (_continued_). King-te-chen and the Père D’Entrecolles, 123

CHAPTER X. The Porcelain of China (_continued_). Forms and uses--Descriptions of the various Wares, 137

CHAPTER XI. The Porcelain of Korea and of the Indo-Chinese Peninsula, 168

CHAPTER XII. The Porcelain of Japan, 177

CHAPTER XIII. From East to West, 208

CHAPTER XIV. The First Attempts at Imitation in Europe, 233

CHAPTER XV. The Hard-Paste Porcelain of Germany. Böttger and the Porcelain of Meissen, 244

CHAPTER XVI. The Hard-Paste Porcelain of Germany (_continued_). Vienna--Berlin--Höchst--Fürstenberg--Ludwigsburg--Nymphenburg --Frankenthal--Fulda--Strassburg. The Hard and Soft Pastes of Switzerland, Hungary, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, and Russia, 259

CHAPTER XVII. The Soft-Paste Porcelain of France. Saint-Cloud--Lille--Chantilly-- Mennecy--Paris--Vincennes--Sèvres, 277

CHAPTER XVIII. The Hard-Paste Porcelain of Sèvres and Paris, 305

CHAPTER XIX. The Soft and Hybrid Porcelains of Italy and Spain, 316

CHAPTER XX. English Porcelain. Introduction. The Soft-Paste Porcelain of Chelsea and Bow, 326

CHAPTER XXI. English Porcelain (_continued_). The Soft Paste of Derby, Worcester, Caughley, Coalport, Swansea, Nantgarw, Lowestoft, Liverpool, Pinxton, Rockingham, Church Gresley, Spode, and Belleek, 350

CHAPTER XXII. English Porcelain (_continued_). The Hard Paste of Plymouth and Bristol, 375