Porcelain tableware, including plates, has been a sign of the consistency of the owners and their excellent taste for more than one century. It is only necessary to try such products once in a business, as all the other dishes will seem to you boring, uncomfortable, not enough refined.
The assortment of porcelain plates is great. This is a deep, and small, and dessert porcelain plates. Not to mention the ways of decorating, due to what sometimes these products more like a work of art. However, white porcelain plates with modest gold monograms look no less noble.
Particularly interesting are antique, antique porcelain plates, preserved to this day in museums and collectors. Samples of such dishes are truly magnificent and priceless.
How to distinguish this china?
In the store, we can not evaluate the composition of the dishes at the break and the properties of the material. So how to distinguish this porcelain from pottery and ceramics?
First of all, look at the plate, sending it to the light. Porcelain shines through, and faience does not. You also need to look closely at the bottom of the plate - there should be no glaze on the rim, as double firing of porcelain assumes that the second time it is already done with the glaze applied. And if the icing at this time will be on the bottom, it will melt, and the plate will stick to the surface. Before the second firing, the glaze from the bottom of porcelain (plates and figurines) is removed.
Of course, trying to forge faience, the manufacturer can clean the layer of glaze from the rim under the plate with ordinary pencil. But there are other sure ways to determine the authenticity of the product. You need to listen to porcelain: when tapping and even light touch, it has a clear and high tone, whereas in faience, even the finest, it is deaf and lower.
Over time, even the best quality faience is covered with a network of small cracks - this is not considered a defect, because it is a natural process. But a porcelain plate will never be covered with such a spider's web. Cracks are inadmissible for her.
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