Chinese | Chinese language | Han Chinese | Chinese people | Mandarin Chinese | Chinese cuisine | Chinese: | Chinese New Year | Chinese Academy of Sciences | porcelain | Chinese dragon | Chinese Civil War | Chinese Taipei | Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference | Chinese American | Chinese University of Hong Kong | Traditional Chinese characters | Chinese Academy of Social Sciences | Chinese yuan | Standard Chinese | Chinese poetry | Chinese characters | Meissen porcelain | Chinese zodiac | Chinese painting | Chinese culture | Yue Chinese | traditional Chinese medicine | Simplified Chinese characters | Overseas Chinese |
William Cookworthy, a Quaker Pharmacist of Plymouth, was greatly interested in locating in Cornwall and Devon minerals similar to those described by Père François Xavier d'Entrecolles, a Jesuit missionary who worked in China during the early eighteenth century, as forming the basis of Chinese porcelain.
In the painting Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window, there is a large Chinese porcelain bowl in the foreground (standing on a Turkish carpet), and Brook uses this to introduce the subject of trade with China.
In Italy, the first known depiction of Chinese porcelain bowls is from the The Feast of the Gods by Giovanni Bellini (1514).
While underglaze blue designs and overglaze enamel paintings began to appear on Chinese porcelain in the fifteenth century, during the sixteenth they became markedly bolder and more exuberant in design and color.