a priceless collection of English porcelain

decorative 17th and 18th century porcelains

But not this little porcelain pontiff right here.

A country as vast as China with so long-lasting a civilization has a complex social and visual history, within which pottery and porcelain play a major role.

The ceramics fall into three broad types—earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain—for vessels, architectural items such as roof tiles, and modeled objects and figures.

One of the most far-reaching examples is the impact of the fine ninth-century AD. Chinese porcelain wares imported into the Arab world.

So admired were these pieces that they encouraged the development of earthenware made in imitation of porcelain and instigated research into the method of their manufacture.  

In the seventeenth century, the trading activities of the Dutch East India Company resulted in vast quantities of decorated Chinese porcelain being brought to Europe, which stimulated and influenced the work of a wide variety of wares, notably Delft.  

Then I studied ceramic engineering at school.

It's a technique used to attach hair to porcelain dolls.

There were lilies everywhere in tall white porcelain vases.

a porcelain figurine

Porcelain plates