Soft-paste porcelain its soft-paste and hard-paste varieties is fraught with misconceptions", and various categories based on the analysis of the ingredients have been proposed instead. Some writers have proposed a "catch-all" category of "hybrid" porcelain, to include bone china and various "variant" bodies made at various times. At least in the past, some sources dealing with modern industrial chemistry and pottery production have made a completely different distinction between "hard porcelain" and "soft porcelain", by which all forms of pottery porcelain, including East Asian wares, are "soft porcelain". Chinese porcelain, which arrived in Europe before the 14th century, was much admired and
Une double famille known for his achievements in the genre of melodrama. His talent as a portraitist, however, shines through in the character of Caroline, a talent he displayed and refined throughout the writing of "La Comédie humaine". Une double famille Une double famille ("A Second Home") is a lengthy short story by Honoré de Balzac. The story first appeared in 1830 under the title "La femme vertueuse" ("The Virtuous Woman"). It was subsequently published in 1832 by Mame et Delaunay as part of Balzac's "Scènes de la vie privée" ("Scenes from Private Life"). In 1835 it appeared, in an edition by Madame