The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Story of Porcelain, by Sara Ware Bassett,
Illustrated by Isabel W. Caley

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

Title: The Story of Porcelain

Author: Sara Ware Bassett

Release Date: October 1, 2006 [eBook #19423]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF PORCELAIN***

E-text prepared by Sigal Alon, La Monte H.P. Yarroll, and the Project
Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/)

Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this
file which includes the original illustrations.
See 19423-h.htm or 19423-h.zip:
(http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/9/4/2/19423/19423-h/19423-h.htm)
or
(http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/9/4/2/19423/19423-h.zip)

THE STORY OF PORCELAIN

by

SARA WARE BASSETT

Author of
"The Story of Lumber"
"The Story of Wool"
"The Story of Leather"
"The Story of Glass"
"The Story of Sugar"
"The Story of Silk"
etc.

Illustrated by Isabel W. Caley

[Illustration: "IT WAS NO ORDINARY DOG"]
[Illustration]

The Penn Publishing
Company Philadelphia
1919
Copyright 1919 by The Penn Publishing Company

[Illustration]

The Story of Porcelain

_To_

_Margaret Huxley_

_this book is affectionately inscribed_

THE BOWL

Some master-craftsman, maker of porcelains, to the Emperor,
the Son of Heaven,
Having attained the paradise of artists, who mould in life and fire,
Fashioned this day:

A bowl blue as the iris within the sacred gardens,
Based with a low design of brown bare hills,
A pine or two new-tipped with tender needles,
With oak buds, pink and saffron,
And birds red, brown, and blue.

Into this bowl, exquisite and perishable,
The Patron of all artists heaps light and more light;
Then holding high the brimming chalice, quaffs,
And folds it in his altar-cloth of stars.

Carl H. Grabo. (_From the Nation_.)

Contents

I. Into the Woods

II. Mr. Croyden Keeps His Promise

III. Theo Meets with a Calamity

IV. Mr. Croyden's Story

V. The Potter Who Burne