Mitsuru Cope on sun 21 jan 01
I have been searching for a Parian ware recipe in archive for five hours but
no luck. Can anyone help me?
"Parian is a hard paste china resembling marble in texture, translucent,
with a fine granular surface."
It's sound wonderful, isn't it?
Mitsuru Cope
Snail Scott on mon 22 jan 01
At 06:05 PM 1/21/01 -0500, you wrote:
>I have been searching for a Parian ware recipe in archive for five hours but
>no luck. Can anyone help me?
>Mitsuru Cope
Hamer&Hamer give this recipe:
China Clay 33
Cornish Stone 66
Fire to 2192F or 1200C. (around ^6)
I don't know what you've got in mind,
but it is my (possibly unfounded) belief
that it was used mainly for slip-casting.
I don't know that it would throw very well.
-Snail
Tom Buck on tue 23 jan 01
M Cope:
Robert Tichane cites this Parian recipe in his book "Clay Bodies"
30 Kaolin
10 Ball clay
60 Feldspar
He says it fires to Cone 8.
Earlier in his book he says H. Seger cited this recipe:
45 Feldspar
54 Kaolin (free from quartz)
1 Calcium carbonate (Whiting)
and that Seger made a grog from this mix and used 30% grog to 70% claybody
above. Again, it fires to C8/9.
good mixing. BFN> Peace. Tom B.
Tom Buck ) tel: 905-389-2339
(westend Lake Ontario, province of Ontario, Canada).
mailing address: 373 East 43rd Street,
Hamilton ON L8T 3E1 Canada
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Mitsuru Cope wrote:
> I have been searching for a Parian ware recipe in archive for five hours but
> no luck. Can anyone help me?
>
> "Parian is a hard paste china resembling marble in texture, translucent,
> with a fine granular surface."
>
> It's sound wonderful, isn't it?
>
> Mitsuru Cope
>
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Janet Kaiser on tue 23 jan 01
Dear Mitsuru
I have not seen a reply to your Parian ware
question. I cannot help with a recipe, but
wonder if you know it is rather a historical
term? It describes a hard porcelain-type body
also known as "statuary porcelain" which was
first introduced in the 19th century and mostly
(but not exclusively) used for making busts and
statues. If I remember rightly it was first used
at Copeland, although I have seen examples of
Parian ware made by Minton and Wedgwood. I do
not recall seeing anything made any later than
mid 19th-early 20th century though. Not really
surprising because busts and statues have rather
gone out of fashion.
It must have been produced in the USA too,
because I have seen a gorgeous blue and white
jug made of Parian ware... Very Art Nouveau. Was
it Bennington? I am afraid I do not remember.
Germany and Sweden also produced busts using
it... It has always been slip ware as far as I
could tell. If you would like some more
historical background, I could do some digging
for you.
My own introduction to 'Parian', was two
figurines which my mother had been given by an
old lady in lieu of money for cleaning... I had
them in my garden as a child! They disappeared
at some point, so I never did know their origin,
but they were finely modelled and in the Meissen
dancing "Shepherd and Shepherdess" tradition and
signed. Stood about 20-24 inches high. Funny how
these things come back!
Good luck with your search and do let us all
know if you make anything!
Janet Kaiser
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----- Original Message -----
> I have been searching for a Parian ware recipe
in archive for five hours but no luck. Can
anyone help me?
Marjorie Beynon on wed 24 jan 01
There is a CM Booklet "Glaze Projects by Richard Behrens" which has recipe
for a casting and throwing body for Parian ware. Page 36. Also a cone 4
recipe for glazing this body. Do not know if this booklet is still
available and I am hesitant to send recipe. MarjB
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