Beginnings of the Bohemian porcelain
For one thousand years, China succeeded to keep its secret of porcelain fabrication. When Johann F. Böttger discovered porcelain for the second time in 1709 in Meissen, Saxony did not manage to keep his “arcanum” for more than ten years. Tradition has it that the first one to find it out was a military agent of the Austrian court who then established in Vienna his own porcelain factory, which he later had to sell to the state because of his debts…
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