1) German porcelain 2) Porcelain from Germany 3) Town in Saxony
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(from the article `Coburg`) ...10th century, and it was first mentioned in a document of 1056. The counts of Henneberg inherited the city in 1248, and it was chartered in 1331. ... In central Germany the margraves of Meissen of the Wettin dynasty thrust steadily eastward and received the electorate of Saxony in 1423, when the ... ......
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city, Saxony Land (state), southeastern Germany. It lies on the Elbe River just northwest of Dresden. It grew out of the early Slavic settlement of ...
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The first true porcelain producer in Europe, some 12 miles (19 km) from dresden, in what is now the south-eastern part of Germany. The man responsible was Johann bottger, Meissen's first director in 1710, who discovered the secret of making white hard-paste porcelain c.1708 - over 800 years after the Chinese. Superb modelling and painting were char …...
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