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Porcelain is a material made from well-chosen porcelain clay or pottery stone through technological processes. which has tougher texture, more transparent body and finer luster. Porcelain is also called china in English because it was first made in China, which fully explains that the delicate porcelain can be the representative of China.

Porcelain is the creative fruit of the working people of ancient China. Since the Han and Tang Dynasties, porcelain has been exported worldwide. It promotes economic and cultural exchange between China and the outside world, and profoundly influences the traditional culture and lifestyle of people from other countries.

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Porcelain is the creative fruit of the working people of ancient China. Since the Han and Tang Dynasties, porcelain has been exported worldwide.

Glowing Porcelain

Also called Transparent Porcelain. It was developed on the basis of skeleton technique in Ming Dynasty. It has a thin inner body with lined tiny holes. It seems transparent but leak-free.

Blue and white pottery

“Blue and white pottery” covers a wide range of white pottery and porcelain decorated under the glaze with a blue pigment, generally cobalt oxide. The decoration is commonly applied by hand, originally by brush painting, but nowadays by stencilling or by transfer-printing, though other methods of application have also been used.Blue and white decoration first became widely used in Chinese porcelain in the 14th century. It was widely exported, and inspired imitative wares in Islamic ceramics, Japanese porcelian, and European porcelain.

Glowing PorcelainColor Glaze Porcelain

It Ceramic glaze is an impervious layer or coating of a vitreous substance which has been fused to a ceramic body through firing. Ancient Chinese craftsmen added different metal oxides in the glaze. At different temperatures and flames, the glaze appeared in different colours.

Famille Rose Porcelain

Also called soft decorative porcelain. Around the end of the Kangxi period (Qing Dynasty), famille rose, or ‘pink family’ enamels, were introduced in China. Composed largely of opaque white and pink enamels derived from colloidal gold, introduced through the Jesuits serving at the Qing court, this new palette became very popular during the subsequent reigns in Qing Dynasty.

West Porcelain

Porcelain was a kind of valuable merchant traded from China to the west during the Old Days of Silk Road, and had prolonged impact on the European aesthetic and lifestyle.

Meissen china was the first European hard-paste

porcelain. In 1710, Meissen porcelain was brought to

the market and gradually became one of the most famous

porcelain manufacturers. The mark of the crossed swords

is one of the oldest trademarks in existence.

It dominated the style of European porcelain until 1756.

However, all of the success had been inspired by the charm

of those from China!

You’ve been more familiar with the name of Wedgwood of Britain?

Wedgwood, is a fine china, porcelain, and luxury

accessories company founded on 1 May 1759 by

English potter and entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood.

But, you can also hear a lot about how the British had

studied the Chinaware from China!