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Kaolin, or china clay, is the essential ingredient of hard porcelain and bone china. The Chinese discovered its use in making porcelain at least a thousand years before the Western world. Imitation being the truest form of flattery, the West so admired the magnificent white, hard and translucent material that they gave their attempts to imitate it the term of china.
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Chinese Porcelain Cann from the Nanking Cargo
This unusually stout mug was a part of 128,000 pieces of porcelain recovered from an East India ship...
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Price: $1,150.00
French Parcel Gilt Porcelain Ink Stand
Raised on French, scrolled feet, this stand was fashioned with a swagged front, housing a flat pen s...
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Price: $1,250.00
English Wedgwood Creamware Tea Cake Server
This lovely tea cake server was fashioned with a handled, raised center over a sectioned, round pla...
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Price: $1,750.00
German Dresden Porcelain Mirrored Double Display Shelf
c. 1880 W 26" D 8" H 21"...
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Price: $1,850.00
French Limoges Enamel Portrait of a Lady
Marked: "FJR, dupres Henner". Portrait of a beautiful lady in a red dress with flowing brown hair. A...
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Price: $1,950.00
Early 18th Century Oval Ivory Box
Tortoise shell trim and lining. Portrait of Gentile Roman at her piano forte. D 3" H 1"...
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Price: $2,750.00
Pair of Oriental porcelain hand painted Satsuma palace urns
Pair of Chinese porcelain hand painted Satsuma palace urns with clusters of fruit. c.1900. $12,500 p...
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Price: $12,500.00
