That said the Prussian king 1728 in a letter on occasion of his visit at the Saxon court. Not coincidentally, the date of the discovery of European porcelain falls into an era, whose pompous and lavish art found an adequate mean of expression in this material - the Baroque. Before that, the "White Gold" was imported from China by for extremely glossy rivalling courts of Europe, often at the cost of the weight of its metallic counterpart. Over the centuries the image of porcelain dusted a bit, something like strewn florets belong to another era in which it was good form to present the coffee only on certain occasions in the parlour. Janett Noack tries to give the apparent honesty of porcelain her own tangy note, in elaborate ornamentation hide little erotic motifs that convey an original baroque zest for life.
Sources:
[1] Walcha, Otto: "Meissen Porcelain", VEB Verlag der Kunst Dresden, 1975, p.91
WHITE GOLD
"On the other hand, the local Magnificence is so big that I think it could not possibly be greater at Louis XIV.
And as for the dissolute life, I'm only two days here,
but I can truly say that I never seen anything like that before. "[1]