Excerpt from An Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of Rare Old Persian Pottery: With Historical and Other Notes Pertaining to a Private Collection That the Persian potters tried to make porcelain is sufficiently shown by their close imitations, in fine earthenware, of the design and colours appearing on Chinese models which they possessed at the time. There is, on the other hand, no true porcelain, as we know it to-day, to be found among the older products of Persian manufacture, unless (and for want of a better name) the white semi-translucent ware some what resembling the transparent porcelain of China may be so described. It has been called faience trans lucide, and also porcelains blanche dc Persc, which terms by French authorities might be accepted as properly covering the subject, although the paste of even the finest examples from Persia, on examination of the foot or of a fracture, will show them to be essentially earthen, therefore unlike in resemblance to the hard and pure white texture to be noted on foot or fracture of true kaolinic vitrified porcelain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.

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