Excerpt from Artificial Soft Paste Porcelain, France, Italy, Spain and England<br><br>The Art Primers of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art are designed to furnish, for the use of collectors, his torical and art students and artisans, the most reliable information, based on the latest discoveries relating to the various industrial arts. Each monograph, complete in itself, contains a historical sketch, review of processes, description of characteristic examples of the best produc tions, and all available data that will help to facilitate the identifica tion of specimens. In other words, these booklets are intended to serve as authoritative and permanent reference works on the vari ous subjects treated. The illustrations employed, unless otherwise stated, are reproductions of examples in the Pennsylvania Museum collections.<br><br>In reviewing the branches of ceramics, the geographical arrangement used by other writers has given place to the natural or technical classi fication, to permit the grouping together of similar wares of all coun tries and times, whereby pottery, or opaque ware, is classified according to glaze, its most distinctive feature, and porcelain, or translucent ware, is grouped according to body, or paste.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.