"In life, no one, my dear; but there are many things in Chinese art that are not much like living objects."
DRESDEN CHINA.
"I suppose you have all heard of Dresden china," presently continued her uncle.
"Oh yes, sir!" cried Al. "Aunt Susie had a Dresden tea-pot that belonged to her grandmother, and she said the tea always tasted better out of it than from anything else."
"Well, here is an excellent French copy of an old Dresden figure. It is a pretty flower-girl. See how gracefully she reaches for a nosegay from her basket. I have seen bouquets of Dresden porcelain that you could hardly distinguish from real flowers," said Uncle Jack.
"You'd hardly think that such a beautiful thing was made from common earth," said Will.
"Nor is it," said his uncle. "This kind of china is made from a very fine and very rare clay that, for a long time, was found only in China and the Corean islands; but about a hundred and sixty years ago, a noted chemist of Meissen, in Saxony, named Böttcher, discovered a bed of it there, and manufactured the first true porcelain made in Europe," said Uncle Jack.
"Why couldn't they get the fine clay from China and make their porcelain anywhere?" asked Will.
