Denoting true porcelain made of fusible and infusible materials (usually kaolin and china stone) fired at a high temperature. Developed in early medieval China, it was not made in Europe until the early 18th century.
硬（质）瓷
Example sentencesExamples
In 1787 the count hired Pierre Cloostermans, a Flemish ceramic painter living in Paris, to continue making creamware and to develop a formula for hard-paste porcelain.
Augustus ‘The Strong,’ King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, was a devoted collector of ceramics, particularly of the delicate Asian white, hard-paste porcelain known to Europeans as ‘White Gold.’
The following year Augustus established the Meissen porcelain manufactory, which dominated the production of hard-paste porcelain in Europe for many years.
The export of hard-paste porcelain until the middle of the eighteenth century was a virtual Chinese monopoly, although Japan also produced a certain amount of porcelain.
His strength lay in his ability to draw, and evidently he had some difficulty at first with the hard-paste medium, which he soon mastered.
Definition of hard-paste in US English:
hard-paste
adjectiveˈhärdˌpāst
Denoting true porcelain made of fusible and infusible materials (usually kaolin and china stone) fired at a high temperature. Developed in early medieval China, it was not made in Europe until the early 18th century.
硬（质）瓷
Example sentencesExamples
Augustus ‘The Strong,’ King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, was a devoted collector of ceramics, particularly of the delicate Asian white, hard-paste porcelain known to Europeans as ‘White Gold.’
His strength lay in his ability to draw, and evidently he had some difficulty at first with the hard-paste medium, which he soon mastered.
In 1787 the count hired Pierre Cloostermans, a Flemish ceramic painter living in Paris, to continue making creamware and to develop a formula for hard-paste porcelain.
The following year Augustus established the Meissen porcelain manufactory, which dominated the production of hard-paste porcelain in Europe for many years.
The export of hard-paste porcelain until the middle of the eighteenth century was a virtual Chinese monopoly, although Japan also produced a certain amount of porcelain.