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EARLY 17TH CENTURY GLACIER
When trade between the Western world and China was sufficiently well established for an easy flow of pioducts, one of those products most desired in the West was Chinese porcelain, for in all its centuiies of working with day the West had never developed so fine or so delicate a product from its kilns. The demand for porcelain -in Emope and in England became so great that rhany attempts were made to establish porcelain works, and rivalries grew so intense that potters who reputedly knew the secret of true porcelain were often bribed or even kidnapped by proprietors wishing to establish new factories. „ One of the most successful of the English factories was that founded at Worcester. Its date may be’casily fixed by the date of the lease tor the house where operations were to take place, May 16, 1751. By 1763 it was acknowledged to be the maker of die finest hard paste porcelain in England. In fact, some dealers had it shipped to France,, decorated and reimpoited to England as French ware!
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