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"the kind of porcelain that you might offer to dust for an elderly relative and then "accidentally" smash."

How to ensure that your elderly relatives never ask you to help out with their housework: make your intentions clear on your blog ;)

Blue Witch | Homepage | 21.03.12 - 8:17 a.m. | #

An interesting post for me DG as its also "local to where I live, Ive never actually seen any Bow Porcelain so I shall make an effort to pop along to the V&A to have a look, thanks.

fishislandskin | 21.03.12 - 10:30 a.m. | #

so interesting ! fascinating to learn that there was such an extensive business based on importing kaolin from America ["the produce of the Cherokee nation in America, called by the natives 'unaker'"] at around the same time that china clay was discovered in Cornwall (1745) - I wonder if the Bow business could have survived if it had managed to keep going until the process for using the Cornish clay got fully under way (patented 1768) - however maybe the "hard-paste" process required for using Cornish china clay could not readily be substituted for the "soft-paste" process used in Bow with the imported unaker,

JohnHB | 21.03.12 - 7:20 p.m. | #

Interesting, thanks.

David | 22.03.12 - 4:26 p.m. | #

Nice to see an old dg series making a comeback :)

martin | 23.03.12 - 8:18 a.m. | #











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