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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 1027984, member: 8267&quot;]True. The Arab Emirate in Sicily did not last as long, only until the Norman conquest in the late 11th cen., and subsequent expulsion of all Muslims by the mid 13th cen. The technology for tin glazed ceramics does not seem to have been transferred to greater Europe until the early Renaissance. Don&#039;t know why. Perhaps the direct importation of Chinese porcelains into Europe about that time sparked interest in creating their own white ceramics, and the tin glazes were the closest they could achieve. Once they found ways of creating true porcelains in Europe, interest in the tin-glazed wares seems to have declined.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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