Soft Paste Pink Lusterware Cup Saucer Biscuit Plate Set China Porcelain Antique

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Please ready below info. about Soft Paste and Lusterware This is a beautiful set and so hard to find matching pieces. The biscuit plate has a small age crack, shown in photos, does not go through to bottom. There is also a small repaired chip on edge, shown in photo. Measures 7 3/8" in diameter The cup and saucer have no damage. I would date this piece pre-1830s. Please email with anyquestions and thank you for bidding! International Buyers including US Protectorates, HI, AK please read: Have recently opened up my auctions to International Sales! Will calculate actual shipping charge at close of auction. Shipping charge will be actual shipping for Priority Mail + insurance + $2.00 handling charge (due to extra packing I will need to ship overseas – it will be packed very very well). Please feel free to email me ahead of time if you need a shipping estimate – keep in mind that it is an estimate only until close of auction when item is packed and ready to ship and weight and size can be determined exactly. Soft Paste Porcelain Soft-paste porcelain was developed in Europe in an attempt to imitate Chinese hard-paste porcelain. Experimenters used a wide variety of materials in their efforts to produce a substance that was hard, white, and translucent. They eventually developed soft-paste porcelain by using mixtures of fine clay and glasslike substances. The first soft-paste in England was demonstrated by Thomas Briand to the Royal Society in 1742. It does not hold up to the extremely high firing temperatures of hard paste and so, soft-paste porcelain, is fired at lower temperatures and does not completely vitrify--that is, it remains somewhat porous which gives it a multi-dimensional effect. Although soft-paste porcelain was invented as an English and French imitation of Chinese porcelain, it has merits of its own. Most of it is creamy in tone, and some people prefer this color to pure white. In addition, the colors used to decorate it merge with the glaze to produce a soft, silky effect that appeals to many collectors. Lusterware From Wikipedia Lusterware or Lustreware is a type of pottery or porcelain with a metallic glaze that gives the effect of iridescence , produced by metallic oxides in an overglaze finish, which is given a second firing at a lower temperature in a " muffle kiln ", reduction kiln , which excludes oxygen. The first use of lustre decoration was as painting on glass . Lustre glazes were applied to pottery in Mesopotamia in the 9th century; the technique soon became popular in Persia and Syria .[6] Lusterware was later produced in the 10th-12th centuries. While the production of lusterware continued in the Middle East , it spread to Europe where it was used to enhance maiolica . Metallic lustre of another sort produced English lustreware , which imparts to a piece of pottery the appearance of an object of silver, gold or copper around 1800. Very dilute amounts of powdered gold or platinum were dissolved in aqua regia and added to spirits of tar for platinum and a mixture of turpentine, flowers of sulfur and linseed oil for gold. The mixture was applied to the glazed ware and fired in an enameling kiln, depositing a thin film of platinum or gold. Platinum produced the appearance of solid silver, and was employed for the middle class in shapes identical to those uses for silver tea services , ca. 1810-1840. Depending on the concentration of gold in the lustring compound and the under slip on which it was applied, a range of colours could be achieved, from pale rose and lavender, to copper and gold. The gold lustre could be painted or stenciled on the ware, or it could be applied in the resist technique, in which the background was solidly lustred, and the design remained in the body color. Lustreware became popular in Staffordshire during the 19th century, where it was also used by Josiah Wedgwood , who introduced pink and white lustreware simulating mother o' pearl effects in d... read more

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