Note 224 — Chapter XX · ENGLISH PORCELAIN INTRODUCTION—THE SOFT-PASTE PORCELAIN OF CHELSEA AND BOW

Mr. Burton points out that it would be quite impossible to make a translucent ware with the materials of the first patent. He doubts also the use of bone-ash in the earlier porcelain of Bow, the paste of which is distinctly of the Saint-Cloud type. I think, however, that there can be little doubt but that the ‘virgin earth’ refers to bone-ash, and the fragments from Bow in which this substance has been found seem to be derived from an early ware.