China Clay
China clay was discovered on the southern slopes of Dartmoor in 1755, and was found to be an excellent raw material for the production of pottery goods. Working of the china clay started at Lee Moor in 1835 by J & W Phillips, but the cost and inconvenience of transport from this relatively remote location to market was a significant factor.
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Famous quotes containing the words china and/or clay:
“Riot in Algeria, in Cyprus, in Alabama;
Aged in wrong, the empires are declining,
And China gathers, soundlessly, like evidence.
What shall I say to the young on such a morning?—
Mind is the one salvation?—also grammar?—
No; my little ones lean not toward revolt.”
—William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)
“As ye of clay were cast by kind,
So shall ye waste to dust.”
—Thomas Vaux, 2d Baron Vaux Of Harrowden (1510–1566)