Antique Dish Info

The Chinese were the first to invent porcelain a staggering 1000 years before the rest of Europe.  Porcelain is actually made by heating a form of clay called kaolin and other minerals in a kiln to temperatures of between 1200 and 1400 C.  Porcelain can be described as translucent and glassy.  When held up to the light you can see through it.  A common name for porcelain still to this day is ‘China’ which the West called it because China was the sole producers of it originally.  

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