A Chinese porcelain-ware displaying battles between dragons， Kangxi era (1662-1722)， Qing D Fonthill vase is the earliest Chinese porcelain object to have reached E It was a Chinese gift for Louis the Great of Hungary in Porcelain is generally believed to have originated in C Although proto-porcelain wares exist dating from the Shang Dynasty about 1600 BCE， by the Eastern Han Dynasty (100-200 BCE) high firing glazed ceramic wares had developed into porcelain， and porcelain manufactured during the Tang Dynasty period (618–906) was exported to the Islamic world， where it was highly [4] Early porcelain of this type includes the tri-color glazed porcelain， or sancai Historian SAM Adshead writes that true porcelain items in the restrictive sense that we know them today could be found in dynasties after the Tang，[5] during the Song， Yuan， Ming， and Qing DBy the Sui (about 580 AD) and Tang (about 620 AD) dynasties， porcelain had become widely Eventually， porcelain and the expertise required to create it began to spread into other areas; by the seventeenth century， it was being exported to EKorean and Japanese porcelain also have long histories and distinct artistic
