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true porcelain

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true porcelain [′trü ′pȯr·slən]
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They're worth pounds 3, 000-pounds 4,000' A large pair of Dogs of Fo, made in about 1680 and crisply modelled in blanc-de-Chine, the name given by European collectors to the undecorated hard paste true porcelain made in China and much prized in the West.
Until then, only the Chinese were capable of making true porcelain but in 1707, an apprentice pharmacist called Johann Friedrich Bottger managed to make a fine red stoneware.
MEISSEN was the first European factory to "re-invent" hard paste or true porcelain, thanks to the fixation of its founder, Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, who possessed the largest collection of Oriental porcelain in Europe.
 
 
 
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