name porcelain is due to confusion. The word porcelain is synonymous cowrie, a type of mollusk whose shell is white and highly esteemed, and in some places of the East were used as currency. How do
Marco Polo returned from his trip and wrote his memoirs, he commented on the beauty of Chinese ceramics and at the same time was that drew many of these porcelain shells or sea. As far the formula remained a mystery, thought maybe that pottery was made of pearl shell mollusk called porcelain. And with that name stuck. Its origin is in China, at the time of the Shui Dynasty (581-617) and had great momentum in the following years, the 618 to 906, in the T'ang period. Tradition that was Marco Polo who first talked about this type of pottery, but until mid-fourteenth century were not the first commercial imports in Europe.
In 1708 and 1709 appears true porcelain, known as hard-paste porcelain. The Alchemist (chemical) German Friedrich Böttger in the court of Dresden , under the rule of Augustus II, Elector of Saxony and king of Poland, got a formula whose result was very close to the ceramic china.
was founded in Naples Capodimonte factory at the time of Charles of Bourbon (the future Charles III of Spain ) governed the kingdom when he arrived in Spain founded a porcelain factory style he met in Naples: Royal Porcelain Factory of Buen Retiro.
In France, in the city of Sevres, near Paris, there was a soft porcelain factory in 1760 was renamed the Manufacturing Real and in 1768 she began to occur in hard-paste porcelain.
In this century the Marquis of Sargadelos (Oscos natural Ferreira de Asturias), Lugo traveled to lands to create a porcelain factory that was the first blast furnace in southern Europe. The factory remains in the XXI century and has been expanded and remodeled in accordance with modern techniques.
Of course, we can not ignore the importance of a home could be the century XVIII - XIX possession of a coffee or a set of china .... 
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