Late bloomers: The Purple Foliage Workshop

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The second quarter of the eighteenth cen­tury is thought of as the golden age of Chinese export porcelain, and with good reason. This is the period just following the intro­duction of the famille rose enamel, a period of innovation and experimentation when European porcelain manufacture was in its infancy and Eu­rope was crying out for the very best that the …