hard paste
true porcelain, made with kaolin, feldspar, quartz, or petuntse.
Origin of hard paste
1- French pâte dure.
- Compare soft paste.
Words Nearby hard paste
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How to use hard paste in a sentence
These specimens are mostly of hard paste in the form of bowls, plates, tureens, &c.
The Collector's Handbook to Keramics of the Renaissance and Modern Periods | William ChaffersThere was a manufactory of hard paste porcelain here towards the end of the 18th century.
The Collector's Handbook to Keramics of the Renaissance and Modern Periods | William ChaffersA factory for hard paste porcelain was established at Sept Fontaines about 1806, by the brothers Boch.
The Collector's Handbook to Keramics of the Renaissance and Modern Periods | William ChaffersThere was also a factory for hard paste established by Greiner and Haman here in 1762.
The Collector's Handbook to Keramics of the Renaissance and Modern Periods | William ChaffersThe theory that hard paste was made at Lowestoft or that Chinese porcelain was painted there has now been abandoned.
The Collector's Handbook to Keramics of the Renaissance and Modern Periods | William Chaffers
British Dictionary definitions for hard paste
porcelain made with kaolin and petuntse, of Chinese origin and made in Europe from the early 18th century
(as modifier): hard-paste porcelain
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