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...ris 36 Joel Harris “Disconnected” 37 Rebecca A. Shaw “Hope” 51 Susan Strohm “The Goddess of Bridgedale High” 54 James Pinkstone “An Ambulance for the Porcelain People” 57 Anthony Tresselt “Uncertain Reconciliation” 66...

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... her haste to say something, she waved her hand toward a Kang table where a bowl of porcelain flowers sat. “Sammie recently bought it for Royce at ... ...ie recently bought it for Royce at La Cristallerie Paradis in Paris. It’s High Fire Porcelain.” He twitched his nose at it. “Sammie gets it back... ...ere.” The chair he selected was a squat, green-cushioned chair by the fireplace. A porcelain screen, scrawled in Chinese letters, protected the hea...

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... Li Zhanbing……………38 Chapter 4. Ningbo — A Culture‐flourishing Land on the Shore of East China Sea – by Lin Rongchen……………53 Chapter 5. Jingdezhen: Porcelain Capital of the World – by Li Xiaomin……………66 Chapter 6. Haimen : Charming City ‐ by Wang Ping & Jiang He……………71 Chapter 7. Changsha: Cultural Name Cards – by Wang Peiyun & Tang Yuming……………82...

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... Bell (re- nowned for truffled turkeys, despatched in the most won- derful porcelain jars to the uttermost parts of the earth), the famous innkeeper o... ...t, to estab- lish a Royal Paper Manufactory; like the Gobelins, the Sevres porcelain works, the Savonnerie, and the Imprimerie royale, which so far ha...

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... loaded with pictures, statuettes, frames, wood-carving, ivories, enamels, porcelains, and the like. He had sunk the greater part of his patrimony, no... ...ure sales, and these Pons had sifted through year by year. Pons had Sevres porcelain, pate tendre, bought of Auvergnats, those satellites of the Black... ...endre.” “What is Frankenthal ware?” asked Cecile. “That is the name of the porcelain made by the Elector of the Palatinate; it dates further back than... ...bars, Mayence by the wheel, and Sevres by the two crossed L’s. The queen’s porcelain is marked A for Antoinette, with a royal crown above it. In the e... ...e it. In the eighteenth century, all the crowned heads of Europe had rival porcelain factories, and workmen were kidnaped. Watteau designed services f... ... ingenious, very clever; they make modern copies of their ‘grand mandarin’ porcelain, as it is called. But a pair of vases of genuine ‘grand mandarin’... ...ng, cousin. A dinner service of Sevres pate tendre (and pate tendre is not porcelain)—a complete dinner service of Sevres pate tendre for twelve perso... ...ncs. If we could but know the history of such and such a service of Sevres porcelain, pate tendre, we should find that all the in- tellect, all the di... ...- craft—with ivories and bronzes, wood-carvings and enam- els, jewelry and porcelain. As soon as Elie Magus entered the sanctuary, he went straight to...

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...as the French East India company was in prosperity. The consumption of the porcelain of China, of the spiceries of the Moluccas, of the piece goods of...

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...erful beautiful but outlandish pagoda, a structure plated with hard bright porcelain, coloured and figured and adorned at the overhanging eaves with si... ...nevertheless quite as if she had sounded with a tap or two one of the rare porcelain plates. She had knocked in short—though she could scarce have sai...

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...a ware, such as you call it in England, or as it is called in our country, porcelain.” – “Well,” says I, “such a thing may be; how big is it? Can we c... ...me; and fine statues set up in rows on the walks, en- tirely formed of the porcelain earth, burnt whole. As this is one of the singularities of China,...

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...d of a curious clock, in the shape of an elephant supporting on its back a porcelain tower which was filled with the choicest flowers; two candelabra ... ...he flower-stands was placed in the middle of the room, and above it hung a porcelain chandelier de- signed with wreaths of flowers. The bed on which t...

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...n Echo, and Mrs. Mountstuart Jenkinson pronounced to be “a dainty rogue in porcelain”. Vernon’s fancy of her must have sprung from her prompt and most... ...For once Mrs. Mountstuart Jenkinson was unsuccessful. Her “dainty rogue in porcelain” displeased Sir Willoughby. “Why rogue?” he said. The lady’s fame... ...George Meredith “Why rogue?” he insisted with Mrs. Mountstuart. “I said—in porcelain,” she replied. “Rogue perplexes me.” “Porcelain explains it.” “Sh... ...g princess!” “I find her perfect.” “And still she may be a dainty rogue in porcelain.” “Are you judging by the mind or the person, ma’am?” “Both.” “An... ...imagine life-long amusement in her company. Attend to my advice: prize the porcelain and play with the rogue.” Sir Willoughby nodded, unilluminated. T... ... that sort.” “Of what sort?” Sir Willoughby asked, impatiently. “Rogues in porcelain.” “I am persuaded I shall never comprehend it.” “I cannot help yo... ...ung lady that struck him as consentaneous with Mrs Mountstuart’s “rogue in porcelain”, and alarmed him as the independent observations of two world-wi... ... suggested to Mrs Mountstuart Jenkinson her indefensible, absurd “rogue in porcelain”. Idea there was none in that phrase; yet, if you looked on Clara... ...one in that phrase; yet, if you looked on Clara as a delicately inimitable porcelain beauty, the suspicion of a delicately inimitable ripple over her ...

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...a labo ratory. On broad tables were test tubes, basins and baths of white porcelain, measuring glasses, and utensils of all sorts; but the surprising... ...gs, and an absurd squat body, so that it looked like a Chinese mandarin in porcelain. In another the trunk was almost like that of a human child, exce...