Porcelain Qingbai
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A brief history of china porcelain
The history of porcelain began in China around the seventh century of our agenda.
Vitreous china of China porcelain were producing a high quality landscape, and recorded with enamel colors can range from ivory to dark brown to green and blue the weakest. The celadon and porcelain with a very pale green, are among the most numerous. The first models were exported porcelain and china blue Qingbai Te Hua, particularly so-called Chinese white bright white. However, the reputation of china porcelain body really done at the beginning of the fourteenth century with the arrival of blue glazed porcelain china is imported Chinela by Marco Polo in Europe since the sixteenth century during their journey on the Silk Road.
Marco Polo Porcelain China, compared with an Italian pearl shell named "Porcellana", hence its name.
Europe was so impressed china, china China has given the name of this scarce resource. Therefore, as porcelain is appointed by the Chinese word in English, the Europeans called the China Country China became French.
European potters Chinels vitreous admired for its whiteness and transparency. They have long sought to pierce the secret first European ceramists could then give rise to the "porcelain". It looks like the china, but has neither the strength nor sound. It misses the main element: the kaolin, it is uncertain at this time in Europe. In the eighteenth century in Saxony is possible to produce the "hard-paste porcelain" a local kaolin deposit, found by chance: the first factory of "hard-paste porcelain" out of China is then established.
So, it took more than four centuries the West to discover the secret of porcelain china and Limoges porcelain was born.
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