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These early wine bottles and small dish were made before Chinoiserie became widely popular. All three are close copies of real Chinese blue-and-white porcelain, which first was imported into England around 1600 by the English East India Company. English potters still did not understand the delicate art of making porcelain, a ware distinguished by its glass-like body that could be potted so thin that it let light through. Instead late seventeenth-century potters made earthenware imitations that have opaque white glaze adorned with blue cobalt—a technique introduced to England by Christian Wilhelm and other immigrant Dutch potters.

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