---- his memoir on the Sèvres works, 290 ---- quoted, 294, 295, 296, 301 Bacon, John, modeller at Bow, 348 Barbin at Mennecy, 287 _Barbotine_, or slip, 19, 312 Batavian porcelain, 102 ---- ---- term how used, 223 Baxter, family of enamellers, 362-363, 369 Belleek porcelain, 374 Bemrose, Mr., on Derby porcelain, 350 Berlin, Meissen staff removed to, 262 ---- Wegeli’s earlier porcelain, 262 ---- contemporary porcelain, 389, 391 ---- porcelain and Frederick the Great, 262 ---- ---- methods of sale, 263 ---- ---- marks on, 264 Bertin, the French minister, his Chinese porcelain, 52 _note_, 298 _note_ Billingsley, W., 366, 367-368, 371 Bing and Gröndhal factory at Copenhagen, 388, 393 Binns, Mr., documents relating to English porcelain, 357, 358 Biscuit oven, 27 Bismuth used in glaze, 374, 388, 390 Black glazes on Chinese porcelain, 149 Bloor, Robert, at Derby, 356 ‘Blue and white,’ origin of Chinese, 75, 156 ---- ---- of Ming period, 81-85, 157 ---- ---- how distinguished, 83 ---- ---- of Wan-li period, 95, 157 ---- ---- Chinese name for, 155 ---- ---- Chinese porcelain, 155-160 ---- ---- earliest Chinese, 156 ---- ---- origin of Chinese, 156 ---- ---- Chinese porcelain, with hatched lines, 160 Blue decoration _sous couverte_, 43 ---- enamel, difficulty of successful application, 99 _note_ ---- ---- used with _famille verte_, 101 Boccaro ware, made in China, 166 ---- ---- imitated by Böttger, 247 Bohemia, Northern, contemporary porcelain, 392 Bondy, Rue de, Paris, factory at, 313 Bone, Henry, employed at Bristol, 381 ---- ---- paints on slabs of porcelain, 381 Bone-ash in English porcelain, 329, 330, 338, 343, 372-373 Borneo, Chinese porcelain found in, 156, 209-210 ---- Chinese trade with, 209 Böttger, his life, 246-248 ---- as an alchemist, 246, 248 ---- his porcelain at the Leipsic Fair, 247, 249 ---- compared with other great potters, 250 ---- assistance from Dutch potters, 250 _note_ ---- the number of his experiments with enamels and glazes, 252 Böttger-ware, polished, 248 ---- with enamel colours, 249 ---- with brown glaze, 249 Boucher, his models used at Sèvres, 296 Bourbon, Duc de, and Chantilly, 286 Bow, fragments of porcelain found at, 343 ---- nature of porcelain there made, 344-345 ---- Craft’s punch-bowl, 345-346 ---- marks on porcelain, 348 ---- factory, origin of, 342 ---- ---- bought by Duesbury, 352 ---- porcelain, 342-348 Brameld, Thomas, and Rockingham porcelain, 372 Brancas Lauraguais, experiments with kaolin, 305, 313, 378, 379 Brinkley, Captain, on Japanese ceramics, 194 ---- ---- quoted, 196 Bristol porcelain, 379-386 ---- ---- marks on, 380 ---- ---- colours on statuettes, 381-382 ---- ---- medallions with floral wreaths, 382 ---- ---- ‘cottage china,’ 382 ---- ---- glaze on, 382 ---- ---- hardness of paste, 384 ---- ---- great infusibility, 384 ---- ---- composition, 384 ---- ---- plasticity of clay, 384 British Museum, Oriental porcelain in, 53