NOVA: And what makes Chinese porcelain so durable ... potters first encountered in the late Yuan to early Ming period (14th century) was imported from the Near East. Its cobalt was a type with ...

White Gold The history of porcelain in Europe starts with Marco Polo. In the 14th century, the explorer brought a small jar from China back to Europe with him and Chinese porcelain became a ...

The 14th-century David vases were once described by Perry as the “Rosetta Stone for Chinese porcelain”. Master potter Edmund de Waal, who wrote The White Road in 2015 about learning the ...