Artificial soft paste porcelain, France, Italy, Spain and England
Edwin Atlee Barber's 1907 New York survey of artificial soft paste porcelain from France, Italy, Spain and England, written for collectors and scholars of ceramics. The plates are half-tone photographs of individual pieces, each captioned with maker, place and date, such as Saint-Cloud, Chantilly, Vincennes and Bristol wares from the eighteenth century. For a designer they offer a catalogue of eighteenth-century European porcelain forms, painted floral sprays, moulded relief handles and gilt rim borders that can be studied for motifs and proportion.
