How it arrived in Hungary is unknown, but Mazerolle in 1897 suggested it may have arrived with an embassy of Nestorian Christians who visited Pope Benedict XII in 1338 from Yuan China...
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Also worth noting that it's not actually the first piece of Chinese qingbai ware porcelain known to have reached Europe, despite what is commonly said, as parts of a small qingbai bowl have been recovered from a 13th-century context in the medieval castle at Lucera, Italy...
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For interest, a distribution map of Chinese late 10th- to 15th-century qingbai ware in Arabia and Africa: http://journals.openedition.org/afriques/1836 pic.twitter.com/B1EmUGIrLu
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It's beautiful!! What are the raised designs called? Not filigree...
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