ISBN-13: 9780691182339 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 544 str.
ISBN-13: 9780691182339 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 544 str.
A sweeping cultural and economic history of porcelain, from the eighteenth century to the presentPorcelain 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 lon