Herend, a Hungarian manufacturer established in 1826 as a pottery factory, pivoted in 1839 to producing beautifully hand-painted porcelain and presented a new dinnerware pattern at the first World ...

For all the China-bashing that seems to be the norm in America these days, few countries have a longer history of trade. In particular, elaborately hand-decorated tableware was the rage among early ...

Introduction -- The porcelain city: Jingdezhen in the eighteenth century -- The secrets of porcelain: China and the west in the eighteenth century -- The creation of porcelain: China and Eurasia, 2000 ...

Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe. By Suzanne Marchand. Princeton University Press; 544 pages; $35 and £30. IT SOUNDS LIKE a fairy-tale. A visionary alchemist, arrested by a tyrannical ...