Planter: Seals 2nd epoch of J.Chapelle. around 1760

Earthenware small fire

If the British use the terms China or Bone china to respectively designate hard porcelain and a softer porcelain widespread in the United Kingdom, this ceramic is called porcellana by the Italians who bring it back from China in the 15th century.
It is so named in reference to the appearance of the Cypraea type shells from which they believed it was extracted.
Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus and Johann Friedrich Böttger discovered its manufacturing process in 1708 while working for the Meissen factory in Germany. While kaolin deposits had been discovered in Saxony from the beginning of the 17th century, it was not until 1768 that the deposits of Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche to the south of Limoges were discovered, which finally made it possible to reproduce in France hard porcelain.

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