---- ---- the ‘three colours’ of Ming enamels, 89, 97 ---- ---- relation to Kishiu ware, 98 Saracenic glass, enamels on, 88 ---- ---- found in China, 88 _note_ ---- motives and forms in Chinese porcelain, 76, 140 ---- origin of enamelled porcelain, 87, 88 Sassanian influence on Far East, 70 _note_ Sawankalok, porcelain made at, 173, 212 _note_ Sceaux, porcelain made at, 288 _Schneeball-vasen_, 254 _Schnorrische Erde_ used by Böttger, 250 Seggars, preparation and arrangement in furnace, 28-29 ---- arrangement in Chinese furnaces, 133 ---- late introduction in Japan, 188 Sei-ji, Japanese term for celadon, 64 Sentoku, Japanese reading of Hsuan-te, 92 Seto, village in Owari, connection with Japanese porcelain, 180, 202 Seto-mono, Japanese equivalent to ‘china,’ 202 Sève for Sèvres, 290 _note_ ‘Severe’ or kaolinic porcelain, 17-18, 385-386 Sèvres, experimental work at, 15 ---- hard paste, two types, 17 ---- the new porcelain, 18 ---- the soft paste of, 289-304 ---- porcelain works removed to, 292 ---- edicts against competing works, 295 ---- the factory a fashionable lounge, 295 ---- date of the best work, 297 ---- soft paste abandoned, 303 ---- ---- repainted at later dates, 304 ---- the hard paste of, 305-312 ---- German workmen at, 305 ---- Macquer succeeds Hellot, 305 ---- early hard paste of mild type, 306 ---- the new mild type of hard paste, 307, 390 ---- proposed withdrawal of State support, 310, 311, 312 ---- hard paste, analysis of, 386 ---- contemporary porcelain, 389, 390 ---- laboratory, chemical and technical researches on Chinese porcelain, 47-48, 55 ---- porcelain sold at Versailles, 292 ---- ---- biscuit figures, 296 ---- ---- royal dinner-services, 297-298 ---- ---- colours of grounds on, 299 ---- ---- turquoise enamel, how prepared, 299 ---- ---- _Rose carnée_ or _Pompadour_, 300 ---- ---- gilding on, 301 ---- ---- date-marks on, 302 ---- ---- jewelled decoration, 302 ---- ---- artists’ marks on, 303 ---- ---- felspathic glaze, 306 ---- ---- glaze on early hard paste, 306 ---- ---- big vases of, 307-308 ---- ---- the Napoleonic decoration, 308 ---- ---- changes in decoration illustrate history, 310 ---- ---- coloured pastes, 311 ---- ---- pictorial plaques, 271, 311 ---- ---- later developments, 312, 390 ‘Shaping,’ term explained, 20 _Sha-t’ai_ or ‘sand-bodied’ relation to _hua-shi_, 132 ---- ---- used as slip, 154 Shonsui, first made porcelain in Japan, 181 Siamese porcelain, 172-175 ---- ---- primitive methods of support in kilns, 174, 211 ---- ---- Buddhist emblems, 175 ---- ---- decorated at Canton, 175 Signatures of painters on _famille rose_ plates, 108 Silica, proportion of, in hard pastes, 7, 385 Silver plate replaced in France by porcelain, 285 Slip or _barbotine_, 19, 312 ---- decoration of Chinese porcelain, 146, 147, 154 Slop-blending, 16 Snuff-bottles of Chinese porcelain, 113-114, 140 Soft pastes, how distinguished, 277 _note_