Download or read book POTTERY PRIMER (CLASSIC REPRIN written by William Percival Jervis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Pottery Primer Let us first try to understand some of the more common terms in general use. First of all comes pottery. There is a regretably restricted use of this word, and it is generally applied to ware that is opaque, as if that was its sole meaning. It has a much broader significance and is properly applied to any article made of clay and fired, whether a common sewer pipe or one of those dainty Japanese pieces of but little more than egg shell thickness and so translucent as to be almost transparent. Do not confound these two words, for there is no such thing as trans parent pottery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.