Writing from the city in 1712 the French Jesuit missionary Père François Xavier d'Entrecolles records that "...the porcelain that is sent to Europe is made after new models that are often eccentric and difficult to reproduce; for the least defect they are refused by the merchants, and so they remain in the hands of the potters, who cannot sell them to the Chinese, for they do not like such pieces".
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From the mid-18th century, even copies of Meissen figures such as Tyrolean dancers were made for export to Europe.
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