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Leather bookbindings, pigments for paints and majolica (white-glazed pottery) all came from the East, although the Venetians never succeeded in imitating the perfect ruby glaze of Iznik pottery.
ECONOMIST: Venice and the East
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The blossoms can either be matte white (known as bisque in the pottery world) or glazed.
WSJ: Porcelain Flowers Never Die
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Sotheby's said the bowl is a "remarkable and exceptionally beautiful example of Song pottery, celebrated for its thin potting, fine near-white body and ivory coloured glaze".
BBC: NY garage $3-bowl sells for $2.2m at auction