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Biscuit porcelain, bisque porcelain or bisque is unglazed, white porcelain treated as a final product, [1] [2] with a matte appearance and texture to the touch. It has been widely used in European pottery , mainly for sculptural and decorative objects that are not tableware and so do not need a glaze for protection.
Books and price guides have been published about Hummel figurines. [15] Some of these works supported the secondary market interest of collector speculators; The Official M.I. Hummel Price Guide: Figurines and Plates, 2nd Edition, by Heidi Ann Von Recklinghausen is a current price guide, published in 2013.
A bisque doll or porcelain doll is a doll made partially or wholly out of bisque or biscuit porcelain. Bisque dolls are characterized by their realistic, skin-like matte finish. They had their peak of popularity between 1860 and 1900 with French and German dolls. Bisque dolls are collectible, and antique dolls can be worth thousands of dollars.
Capodimonte porcelain (sometimes "Capo di Monte") is porcelain created by the Capodimonte porcelain manufactory (Real Fabbrica di Capodimonte), which operated in Naples, Italy, between 1743 and 1759. Capodimonte is the most significant factory for early Italian porcelain, the Doccia porcelain of Florence being the other main Italian factory .
TODAY reports that opaque, brightly colored pieces that feature floral and geometric designs tend to resell for the highest price. Pyrex products made between 1915 and the late 1970s are ...
The oven can fire biscuit porcelain in 15–16 hours and glass or glazed porcelain in 11–12 hours. One firing requires 25 cubic metres of wood, which is burnt over 48 hours using a specialised technique in order to raise the temperature.
Royal Copenhagen, officially the Royal Porcelain Factory (Danish: Den Kongelige Porcelænsfabrik), is a Danish manufacturer of porcelain products and was founded in Copenhagen in 1775 under the protection of Danish Dowager Queen Juliane Marie.
Vincennes soft porcelain cup, 1750–1752 Vincennes soft-porcelain vase, 1753 Vincennes plant pot, c. 1753 The unexpected deaths in 1750 and 1751 of both brothers Fulvy created a financial impasse [ 6 ] that was resolved when the King stepped in and made of Vincennes the object of royal patronage, though less than a manufacture royale ; it ...