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White Gold

How Chinese porcelain became a worldwide sensation, changing tastes and the global economy.

Lauren Moya Ford | Published in History Today Volume 70 Issue 4 April 2020

Still Life with Fruit, by Osias Beert, c.1600 © Getty Images.

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