PORCELAIN: A HISTORY FROM THE HEART OF EUROPE AUDUBON each bead is painstakingly hand-applied

each bead is painstakingly hand-applied

and his inner life

and a mountain trek are always just an hour or two away

nineteenth-century Washington

making it easy to spot them throughout the year

PORCELAIN: A HISTORY FROM THE HEART OF EUROPE AUDUBON each bead is painstakingly hand-applied"This is the book on porcelain we have been waiting for. . . . A remarkable achievement."Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes. Porcelain was invented in medieval Chinabut its secret recipe was first reproduced in Europe by an alchemist in the employ of the Saxon king Augustus the Strong. Saxonys revered Meissen factory could not keep porcelains ingredients secret for long, however, and scores of Holy Roman princes quickly founded their