The three basic English porcelains can loosely be called glassy, soapy or bony.Īlthough, it is said that all English 18thC factories used soft paste, there are three exceptions, in the factories of Plymouth, Bristol and New hall, who all used a hard paste mixture. One type used soapstone (soapy) in the mix and the other used bone ash (bony). In trying to improve the recipes two other basic types of soft paste porcelain were made in England. The English started making porcelain rather late compared with the rest of Europe, and several of the English factories used the glassy type of soft paste. The soft pastes all include a fair proportion of glass in their formulas which allowed for the production of some magnificent French porcelain. Then in the 18thC by St Cloud, Mennency, Chantilly, Vincennes and Sevres. The alternative formula for soft paste porcelain was first made in Europe by the Medicis in Florence in 1575, and later made in France from the latter part of the 17thC at Rouen. Hard paste porcelain is a mixture of kaolin and petunse, or china clay and china stone, mixed and then fired to a temperature of about 1350C degrees. It differs significantly from the recipe for true or hard paste porcelain, which was first discovered by the Chinese about a 1000 years ago then rediscovered by Meissen about 1710. Soft paste porcelain is porcelain made to a different formula It was replaced in the 18th century by refined stonewares, salt-glazed stoneware, fine earthenwares, creamware and pearlware, made mainly in Staffordshire, the heart of the English porcelain industry. This type of pottery is known as delftware in England, and it flourished in London, Bristol and Liverpool in the 17th and 18th centuries. They brought with them the production methods for tin-glaze pottery manufacture. In 1567 two European potters arrived in England, from Holland Recommended Reference Works on Antique English Porcelain.ġ8th Century antique english porcelain manufacturers followed in the steps of the French in that the vast majority of porcelain produced was of the soft paste type.Factory marks on Antique English Porcelain.Lesser known English Porcelain Factories.A Chronological History of Antique English Porcelain Factories.Soft paste porcelain is porcelain made to a different formula.In 1567 two European potters arrived in England, from Holland.
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