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Kriterier fastställda 2021-11-24.

FIRST SORTING

Bone china

This applies to all parts of bone china when delivered from Gustavsberg Porcelain Factory unless otherwise stated below:

Approved as first sorting:

  • Max 3kiln support marks on footring
  • Max 3 pin head-sized dots on the front

or

  • Max 1 larger dot on the front.
  • Color variations according to the designer’s décor idea.
  • Trim/polish structures, i.e. you can see the hand moved sponge structure through colored porcelain.
  • Colored porcelain: The “middle knob” appears on the front of the plate.
  • Colored porcelain: Glaze that floats together when burned.
  • Bottom stamp – may be unclear or oblique.
  • Embossing may occur in the porcelain.
  • Orange skin, i.e. the surface is partially slightly porous.

Unapproved:

  • Crack that goes through the porcelain.
  • Cracking in the glaze.
  • Splinter out of the edge.
  • Nothing sharp must occur so that there is a risk of cuts.
  • Badly attached or lose cup ear.
  • Pipe holes (enter the porcelain so glaze is missing) larger than pinhead.
  • Burned debris larger than a pinhead.
  • Missing glaze (i.e. lack of glaze outside the foot ring).
  • Colored porcelain: Do not have visible schatts due to uneven mass.
  • Edge line must not have any bleeding (i.e. more than 1 mm).
  • Color variations on border greater than approved above.
  • Glaze whit bubbles, i.e. you see several bubbles.

Porcelain with relief décor

Approved as first sorting:

  • Colored glaze: richer coloring in the relief edges and ditches.
  • Some variation on the prominence of relief.

Decoration graphic (Lindberg’s decorations, etc.)

Approved as first sorting:

  • Max 6kiln support marks on footring
  • Max 3 smaller splashes of paint from prints in white fields outside the décor or 1 larger.
  • Max 1 “break” where, for example, black line in Ribb is completely off.
  • The placement of decor can vary slightly between e.g. plate and plate as this is done entirely by hand.
  • Slightly color variations in décor.
  • Rib: Color variation when overlapping graphic screen prints.
  • Adam: blue dots that float out slightly and give a certain color variation.
  • Max 3 white dots in print per goods in e.g. Berså  and  Red Aster. can have of several tightly seated dots where white shines through.

Unapproved:

  1. Rib: Broken brown stripe, e.g. cracked in the middle

Stoneware

Approved as first sorting:

  • Max 3kiln support marks on footring
  • Max 8 pinhead-sized dots in visible place.

Or

  • Max 3 larger dots in visible place.
  • Color variations according to the designer’s décor idea.
  • Colored porcelain: The “middle knob” appears on the front /inside.
  • Colored porcelain: Glaze that floats together when burned.
  • Plaster stripes, i.e. you can see how a hand pulled with a plaster sponge through colored porcelain.
  • Max 3 pinhead-sized pipe holes in visible place.

or

  • Max 1 pipe hole (enters the porcelain so glaze is missing) larger than pinhead.
  • The bottom stamp may be unclear or oblique
  • Embossing may occur in the porcelain.
  • Orange skin, i.e. the surface is partially slightly porous.

Not approved:

  • Crack (which goes through the porcelain).
  • Cracking in the glaze.
  • Splinter out of the edge.
  • Nothing sharp must occur so that there is a risk of cuts.
  • More than 1 pipe hole, larger than pinhead.
  • Burned debris larger than a pinhead in a visible place.
  • Edge line must not have any bleeding (i.e. more than 1 mm).
  • Glaze whit bubbles, i.e. you see several bubbles.