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  • Vitreous colormaking might begin with a ceramic form, a useful or decorative one, something made of soft - or hard-paste porcelain, stoneware, or earthenware.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Vitreous china and porcelain enamel are still commonly found in kitchens and bathrooms; some new hard plastics have been developed, but these have by no means elbowed the older materials aside.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Vitreous china and porcelain enamel are still commonly found in kitchens and bathrooms; some new hard plastics have been developed, but these have by no means elbowed the older materials aside.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Vitreous china is fired twice to render it glassy and nonporous.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Vitreous china is both tough and nonporous, and is therefore all but universally chosen for this purpose.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Vitreous china is fired twice to render it glassy and nonporous.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Vitreous china is both tough and nonporous, and is therefore all but universally chosen for this purpose.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Vitreous china is both tough and nonporous, and is therefore all but universally chosen for this purpose.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Vitreous china and porcelain enamel are still commonly found in kitchens and bathrooms; some new hard plastics have been developed, but these have by no means elbowed the older materials aside.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Vitreous china is fired twice to render it glassy and nonporous.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

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