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Show '' 'J'fl c KINGS RESERVE PORCELAIN r " ''I - - ' 1 fChinawar Was So Beautiful That ' 1 .. ' It Waa Never Exported, but , , Waa Held for Emperors. "' -s'! Z The Arabs mentioned porcelain ,' - factories nnd stores In their wrlt- Jngs about 800 A. D. The Arabian 'i' ',,1 joogrnpher, Mohammed-el-Efrldl, Z Who lived In Sicily at the court of -.; .,,'. " ' . Roger II, published, about 1154, n l ' : ! : geographic work In which he told I: , t the town of DJankow, where - . ; S "Chinese glass" was made. He 'O1 ,i atiLiu-that there was "po nner and : 11 , niore esteemed profession In Djan-i Djan-i -' . kow than that of a potmaker or a f, j pot designer." Toward the middle i 3 ' ' of the Fourteenth century, Ibn i '-.' f Batuta, the Arabian traveler, de-'i. de-'i. . c Scribed Chinese ceramic as the . most beautiful In the world. The . '. ' n Chinese manufactured dishes and t porcelain ware for a very long I i. l -, time. In the history of the great , ''i ' C Chinese empire one reads that only i 4a ! certain towns and villages went In t ! for porcelain Industry. The finest i " - chlnaware was made In the prov-i. prov-i. .y j i lnce of SaxlJ. It was so beautiful : I and so much like the finest crystal ' : - that It never was exported, but ' ) Was exclusively reserved for the ,':(' : b use of the Chinese emperors. |