Francois Xavier d'Entrecolles, Chinese Porcelain, and the Question of Industrial Espionage Sunday, March 22, 2026
Francois Xavier d'Entrecolles did not invent porcelain in Europe, but his letters from Jingdezhen helped strip Chinese porcelain of its aura of mystery and recast it as an intelligible industrial process. That matters because Sèvres, English porcelain makers, and the broader European ceramics trade developed not in isolation but in the long shadow of Chinese achievement.
