LIST OF WORKS ON OTHER SUBJECTS REFERRED TO IN THE TEXT, xxxv CHAPTER I. Introductory and Scientific, 1 CHAPTER II. The Materials: Mixing, Fashioning, and Firing, 14 CHAPTER III. Glazes, 30 CHAPTER IV. Decoration by means of Colour, 38 CHAPTER V. The Porcelain of China. Introductory--Classification--The Sung Dynasty--The Mongol or Yuan Dynasty, 49 CHAPTER VI. The Porcelain of China (_continued_). The Ming Dynasty, 78 CHAPTER VII. The Porcelain of China (_continued_). The Manchu or Tsing Dynasty, 96 CHAPTER VIII. The Porcelain of China (_continued_). Marks, 117 CHAPTER IX. The Porcelain of China (_continued_). King-te-chen and the Père D’Entrecolles, 123 CHAPTER X. The Porcelain of China (_continued_). Forms and uses--Descriptions of the various Wares, 137 CHAPTER XI. The Porcelain of Korea and of the Indo-Chinese Peninsula, 168 CHAPTER XII. The Porcelain of Japan, 177 CHAPTER XIII. From East to West, 208 CHAPTER XIV. The First Attempts at Imitation in Europe, 233 CHAPTER XV. The Hard-Paste Porcelain of Germany. Böttger and the Porcelain of Meissen, 244 CHAPTER XVI. The Hard-Paste Porcelain of Germany (_continued_). Vienna--Berlin--Höchst--Fürstenberg--Ludwigsburg--Nymphenburg --Frankenthal--Fulda--Strassburg. The Hard and Soft Pastes of Switzerland, Hungary, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, and Russia, 259 CHAPTER XVII. The Soft-Paste Porcelain of France. Saint-Cloud--Lille--Chantilly-- Mennecy--Paris--Vincennes--Sèvres, 277 CHAPTER XVIII. The Hard-Paste Porcelain of Sèvres and Paris, 305 CHAPTER XIX. The Soft and Hybrid Porcelains of Italy and Spain, 316 CHAPTER XX. English Porcelain. Introduction. The Soft-Paste Porcelain of Chelsea and Bow, 326 CHAPTER XXI. English Porcelain (_continued_). The Soft Paste of Derby, Worcester, Caughley, Coalport, Swansea, Nantgarw, Lowestoft, Liverpool, Pinxton, Rockingham, Church Gresley, Spode, and Belleek, 350