POTTERY

is a very ancient form of art, and, by the time of the Greeks, had attained to great perfection in the matter of form. Glazed ware has been found in the Egyptian and Babylonian ruins, but the Arabs were the first to introduce it into Europe via Spain, and from there the Italians carried it to Majorca, which gave its name to ‘Majolica’ ware. The Dutch began to manufacture heavier ware at Delft, at the end of the x6th century, and they also introduced porcelain from the East about the same time. In modern times, porcelain comes naturally from countries in which there are old granites that have * weathered ’ into white clay. Thus, Stoke and Derby owe their porcelain trade to the ease with which the decayed granite of Devon and Cornwall can be brought to the Staff ords hire coal-field. Karlsbad owes a similar trade to the white clay found round it and to its nearne to the Prague and Pilsen coal-fields. Mei en, the centre of 4 Dresden * china, is on the Zwickan coal-field, just acro the Erzgebirge from Karlsbad.