clay-porcelain

Updated: July 10, 2026

As to the aristocracy of our order, made of the finer clay-porcelain peers and peeresses; the slabs, and panels, and table-tops, and tazze; the endless nobility and gentry of dessert, breakfast, and tea services; the gemmed perfume bottles, and scarlet and gold salvers; you saw that they were painted by artists, with metallic colours laid on with camel-hair pencils, and afterwards burnt in.

Charles Dickens - Reprinted Pieces