Hard Paste Porcelain

Hard Paste Porcelain

Hard paste porcelain is typically separated into three categories of identification: Chinese, Japanese, and European. For the purposes of this collection, the broader hard paste porcelain category is used to separate these pieces from those in the soft paste porcelain category. Hard paste porcelain has an extremely compact and highly vitrified paste with a clear, glassy glaze. The paste is often made of kaolin and a finely ground feldspathic rock, but there is some variation within this depending on the place of origin.

Hard paste porcelain is typically fired at 1250-1500° C, but those in the European category are fired twice, like soft paste porcelain, between 1300-1400° C. these European porcelains were very common in North America between 1880 and 1920 (Majewski and O’Brien 1987:128). Most hard paste porcelain is decorated in an underglaze print, but there is variation depending on the origin of production.

https://apps.jefpat.maryland.gov/diagnostic/Porcelain/PorcelainWareDescriptions/HardPastePorcelain-intro.html

https://apps.jefpat.maryland.gov/diagnostic/Porcelain/PorcelainWareDescriptions/ChinesePorcelain-intro.html

https://apps.jefpat.maryland.gov/diagnostic/Porcelain/PorcelainWareDescriptions/EuropeanHardPastePorcelain-intro.html

https://apps.jefpat.maryland.gov/diagnostic/Porcelain/PorcelainWareDescriptions/JapanesePorcelain-intro.html

Majewski, Teresita, and Michael J. O’Brien
1987 The Use and Misuse of Nineteenth-Century English and American Ceramics in Archaeological Analysis. Archaeological Method and Theory 11:117.  

Early 1800s-mid 1900s

Historic Ceramic

p1642/ACC 133, p547/ACC 170, p547/ACC 170, p547/ACC 170, p1/ACC 133, p1/ACC 133, p1/ACC 133, p1203/ACC 140, p303/ACC 190, p303/ACC 190, p303/ACC 190, p303/ACC 190, p908/ACC 133