| The history of porcelain began in China around the | | | | precious commodity. Thus, as the porcelain is |
| seventh century of our calendar. | | | | designated by the word china in English, Europeans |
| Vitreous Porcelain of Chinese porcelain were | | | | named this Country China became China into |
| producing high quality, scenery and engraved with | | | | French. |
| enamel colors can range from ivory to dark | | | | Vitreous Chinels European ceramists admired for |
| brown through green and blue the faintest. The | | | | its whiteness and transparency. They have long |
| celadon and porcelain with a very pale green, are | | | | sought to pierce the secret in the first European |
| among the most numerous. The first models | | | | ceramists then might lead to the birth of the |
| were exported porcelain blue and porcelain Qingbai | | | | "bone china". It has the look of Chinese porcelain, |
| Te Hua, a particularly brilliant white called Chinese | | | | but has neither the hardness nor the sound. It |
| white. However, the reputation of Chinese | | | | misses the main element: kaolin, still unknown at |
| porcelain body actually does at the beginning of | | | | this time in Europe. In the early eighteenth |
| the fourteenth century with the onset of blue | | | | century, it manages to produce in Saxony of the |
| china Vitreous china is imported Chinela by Marco | | | | "hard-paste porcelain" from a local kaolin deposit, |
| Polo in Europe since the sixteenth century during | | | | found by chance: the first manufacture of |
| his trip on the Silk Road. | | | | "hard-paste porcelain" outside China is then |
| Marco Polo Chinese porcelain compared to a pearl | | | | established. |
| shell whose Italian name is "Porcellana", hence its | | | | Thus, it took more than four centuries to the |
| name. | | | | West to discover the secret of Chinese porcelain, |
| Europe was so impressed by the Chinese | | | | and born of Limoges porcelain. |
| porcelain that has given China the name of this | | | | |