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| Porcella was brought to Europe by Portuguese trading vessels around the middle of the 16th century; however, Chinese potters guarded their secret of making hard-paste porcelain so closely that it was 1710 before a somewhat similar porcelain was produced at Meissen. Ceramic shrinks about one-sixth to one-seventh in firing. Hard-paste is fired in the region of 1300. Asians fired only once but the Europeans fired twice. |
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