Oriental Porcelain - China and Japan - By: Old And Sold, 2009-08-07

Europe was made acquainted with the wonderful progress of Chinese ceramic art through the Portuguese who in 1518 introduced the Chinese wares. That the Oriental workmen were acquainted with porcelain manufacture at a remoter period than this we cannot doubt, for among the remains of the Egyptian tombs are those wonderful little bottles with Chinese inscriptions which have baffled the research of all scholars to the present time.

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