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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 370856, member: 2844&quot;]Pleasure, Aaron. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, nicely complicated. And they were allowed to call it Delfts, because they were Dutch.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie83" alt=":smug:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Delfts simply means Delftish, or from the town of Delft. </p><p>To complicate matters more: Outside the Netherlands the name Delft became synonymous with non-Oriental blue and white ware. Simply because the Dutch were the first to step into the gap when the Chinese emperor closed the borders to any foreign influence and instituted an import and export ban. </p><p>The Dutch were the main foreign traders with China at the time, and there was great demand for Oriental style ware. So they decided to make it themselves, except they didn&#039;t know yet how to manufacture porcelain and had no kaolin clay to even try it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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