Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Dresden China

DRESDEN CHINA, a delicate, semi-transparent, highly-finished china made at Meissen, near Dresden. The manufacture resulted from an accidental discovery made by Böttger, a young chemist, in 1710.

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