词汇 | spode |
词源 | Spode. “Josiah Spode produced a better porcelain than any that had yet been made in England,” wrote Alexandre Brogni- art, director of the French plant producing the famous Sèvres ware. “He endeavoured to equal the soft porcelain of Sèvres, which his paste closely resembled. He introduced, or at any rate perfected, the use of calcined bones in the body of the ware.” Brogniart was referring to English potter Josiah Spode (1754–1827), who developed his formula of bone ash and feld- spar at Stoke-on-Trent in 1799. England’s leading chinaware manufacturers all adopted Spode’s formula to produce the du- rable, fine bone china much esteemed ever since as Spodeware, or Spode. |
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