Michael Plant > wrote:
>
>I think I know the material you mention, but I don't remember it as being
>quite as thin as thin porcelain. I notice that Jing's cobalt blue painted
>gaiwans come in "lower" and "higher" qualities, the former being thinner
>and drawn with a more spontaneous hand, so the drawing retain a painterly
>quality. The higher priced ones are heavier, although not heavy, and the
>paintings are more even in shade and deeper in tone. I much prefer the
>former. I have both in my collections.

It is not as thin as the best thin porcelain, but it is still pretty thin.
You could pass it off as mid-grade porcelain and get away with it, I think.

>Tell me more about the vitrified hotelware.

You now know about all I do. It's some kind of super-high-firing glasslike
stuff, even higher firing than porcelain. Whatever it is, I like it.
--scott
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