It would be a new innovation that Europe had not seen before that hence begun the art of making porcelain, first made in the white and later on around 1720 embellished in the styles of silver and gold vessels so popular in the period. By 1710 for security reasons the Albrechtsburg castle in Meissen began the home to making for resale ‘stoneware imitations of Yixing wares popular in China since the Song period of AD 900. It would be Bottger who would gain recognition to take away the prize and become known as the inventor of hard paste porcelain only after he made the mistake of convincing Augustus the Strong he could turn clay into gold.ĭuring 1708 after numerous experiments failed that the production to making hard paste porcelain in Europe began in Saxony. The chemist and and mathetician Einfried Walter Tschirnhaus aided by his protege Johann Freiderich Bottger discovered the formula that would become known as the Arcanum (the secret of making hard paste porcelain in Europe). Since around AD 700 China had dominated porcelain making before the discovery of making porcelain at Meissen in 1707. The Story of the origins of the Meissen Crossed Swords Trade Mark The Plate above illustrates the main Meissen Trade Marks since 1720
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