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CHAPTER 2 The Production of Enamelled Porcelain and Knowledge Transfer
Figure 2-7 Getting porcelain out of the kiln.
After porcelain with decoration was taken out of the kiln and cooled down,
enamel colours were then painted on the body, and were fired again at a lower
temperature. As section 2 of this chapter shows, the production of enamelled porcelain
had already begun in the fourteenth century onwards in Jingdezhen. In the eighteenth
century, it was the production of enamelled porcelain that was innovative, as I will
demonstrate in the following section.
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