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  • Finding Out More About Antique Thimbles And China Porcelain  By : Victor Epand
    This article talks about marks on thimbles and dishes and how to go about finding out more on the pieces.
  • Porcelain - The Best of Chinese  By : Mitch Johnson
    Among different types of ceramic, porcelain is one of the most beautiful and expensive Chinese-made ceramic. Though it has been firstly made by Chinese, later it spread all over Europe and many people started making it. In this article you will learn more about porcelain.
  • Chinese Pottery and Porcelain - Great Progress in Style and Design  By : Mitch Johnson
    Ching-te-chen, the southwestern of Nankin, became a centre of manufacturing porcelain in the fourteenth during the Ming dynasty. These products of porcelain spread the fame of China throughout the civilized world exporting them to western countries. Let us have a look at the details of the Chinese pottery and porcelain history.
  • Porcelain in Scandinavia and Russia  By : Mitch Johnson
    The Scandinavian and Russian porcelain were made with the soft paste in the initial stages and a different type of paste was also introduced for a short time and then the hard paste was used to make figures and vases like cups and mustard pots.
  • The History of Porcelain in Belgium, Holland and Switzerland  By : Mitch Johnson
    Belgium made a good progress in the eighteenth century copying both the Sevres and Meissen styles but their original works was mostly done in the tablewares and figures. Tourney was one of the important places in Belgium, Amsterdam and The Hague in Holland and Zurich and Nyon near Geneva in Switzerland.
  • Porcelain in Germany - Its Begining and End  By : Mitch Johnson
    The porcelain produced since 1710 is called Meissen in Germany. Johann Bottger successfully experiments in making a hard red ware, he was able to make a white one and in 1710 the Royal Saxon Manufactory was established.

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