Assertion: porcelain | /r/AtLocation | china
Facets:
value: exclusively
type: DEGREE
value: originally
type: OTHER
value: certainly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Porcelain was first made in China
text: Certainly porcelain was being made in China in the Tang dynasty (618–907 AD).
text: Porcelain is known as “china” because it was originally made in China; Portuguese traders introduced it to Europe in the 16th century and dubbed it “porcelain,” but it wasn’t actually manufactured in Europe until the 18th century.
text: Although porcelain was first made in China, the Chinese traditionally do not recognise it as a distinct category, grouping it with stoneware as "high-fired" ware, opposed to "low-fired" earthenware.
text: It was only after the sixteenth century, when the Portuguese and the Dutch established their commercial trade routes to the Far East, that there emerged a robust market of export ware: porcelain exclusively made in China for Europe.
text: In this period the enormous quantities of porcelain made in China seem to have led to low prices and a loss of prestige, at court and in Chinese society in general.