For many centuries China held the secret to making the ... The body of Chinese blue-and-white porcelain is made from a fine, white clay. The blue designs are painted on the piece before it is ...

That quality is one of the biggest draws of porcelain, along with its accessibility and style. Still, it comes with a few downsides. Just like fine china, porcelain can be expensive, and it's not ...

China kept porcelain’s ingredients and production ... Limoges also produced faience earthenware, or fine in-glazed pottery. The heritage of ceramics and decoration was deeply woven into the ...

The fine white ceramics discovered at this site ... making these wares the earliest discovery of "high quartz porcelain" in China. According to Zhu Cunshi, head of the Ningxia Institute of ...