Chinese Porcelain Across Cultures
Europeans first discovered true porcelain in Chinese blue and white wares of early to mid 1500s. It was love at first sight. Western merchants imported millions of porcelain items, prompting the English critic and writer Samuel Johnson to call it “the contagion of China fancy”. Others called it a “porcelain disease”, an obsessive desire to posses something that seemed exotic. For over a thousand years Chinese porcelain was greatly admired throughout the world, not just in Europe. Rocket Chinese reviews It influenced every ceramic tradition in the world, including Asia, Africa, Middle-East, and South America. Egyptian and Turkish potters combined Chinese porcelain decoration with Ottoman designs.
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