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| c. 1620 |
| | | Delft becomes the centre for tin-glazed earthenware in nothern Europe, specializing in the blue-and-white Chinese style | |
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| 1662 |
| | | Jean-Baptiste Colbert buys the Gobelin family workshops in Paris and transforms them into a royal factory for Louis XIV | |
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| c. 1670 |
| | | Members of the Sakaida Kakiemon family are producing exquisitely decorated porcelain ware in Japan | |
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| c. 1675 |
| | | Dutch traders purchase Kakiemon wares in Japan for import to the Netherlands | |
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| c. 1690 |
| | | Chinoiserie becomes the new craze in Europe, after Jesuit reports of the Chinese civilization | |
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| 1708 |
| | | The secret of true porcelain is at last discovered in the west, at Dresden, by Johann Friedrich Böttger | |
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| c. 1720 |
| | | The lighter rococo style, beginning in France, becomes an extension of the baroque | |
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| 1759 |
| | | Staffordshire potter Josiah Wedgwood sets up a factory of his own in his home town of Burslem | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Francisco de Goya begins a series of designs for tapestries to be made in Spain's Royal Tapestry Factory | |
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| 1807 |
| | | English collector Thomas Hope publishes his Greek and Egyptian designs in Household Furniture and Interior Decoration | |
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