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porcelain services decorated to order were enamelled at Canton,
such as the green ware with flowers, birds, insects, etc., painted
He believes that all of the came from the
on it.
porcelain
'
'
north, except a rough willow-pattern ware, and the sister
ginger-pots in blue and white, which were made in the south.
This ware shows no of
certainly quality translucency.
"
My maternal grandmother was an American, and, ignorant
of the of a Worcester service with the
origin barley-ear pattern
borders, of Flight's or Flight and Barr's period, she sent a
specimen to China early in the last century to replace pieces
that had been broken. From Canton there came back what
was a pretty good match, showing that, in or near that city,
there was in the white to be decorated to
porcelain waiting
order. I have a or two of each.
piece
" ' '
The name of Fitzhugh I have never heard explained,
but have always regarded it as a compliment to the distin-
guished Virginian family of that name, allied with the chief
families of the United States."
Messrs. Jones McDuffee & Stratton Co., the firm in Boston
"
referred to by Mr. Winthrop, write : The willow pattern is
also on the same of thin china as the
produced grade Fitzhugh,
'
and much more than in the so-called Canton
carefully painted
china.' There is a deal of china painted (over the
great glaze)
in Canton in a of The itself
variety styles. Fitzhugh pattern
is decorated there in
frequently green, red, and more or less
gold tracery."
"TRANSFER PRINTING."
Before leaving this plate we must take up the question of
"
transfer-printing," which, in connection with Chinese porce-
lain, is by no means an easy one. Some people hold that this
process was practised by the Chinese, others that it was used
in with and is therefore difficult to
conjunction hand-painting,
tell ; while those who should be best able to
perhaps judge,
including men who live by repairing and re-painting china,
maintain that there is no such as transfer-work to be
thing
met with in the whole oriental section.
Marryat, at p. 292, awards the doubtful honour of the
invention of to. Dr. Wall, who founded a
transfer-printing