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Bow first patent porcelain: new discoveries in science and art.(William Cookworthy )
The first recognized discovery and production of a hard-paste porcelain body in England has been attributed to William Cookworthy (1705-1780) of Plymouth. (1) He apparently modeled the composition of his porcelain after the recipe contained in the letters of the Jesuit priest Francois Xavier d'Entrecolles (1664-1741), who resided and worked at the Chinese center for porcelain manufacture Jingdezhen and wrote accounts of Chinese ceramic practices in 1712 and 1722. These letters were in turn published in Paris in 1717 and 1722 and were then incorporated in Jean Baptiste Du Halde's Description geographique ... de l'empire de la Chine ... (Paris, 1735), which was published as ...
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