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Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe

by Suzanne Marchand

Porcelain was invented in medieval China—but its secret recipe was first reproduced in Europe by an alchemist in the employ of the Saxon king Augustus the Strong. Saxony’s revered Meissen factory could not keep porcelain’s ingredients secret for long, however, and scores of Holy Roman princes quickly founded their own mercantile manufactories, soon to be riv

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780691204239