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El primer palacio que existió en Aranjuez, población cercana a Madrid, situada en un fértil paraje entre los ríos Tajo y Jarama, fue mandado construir en 1387 por don Lorenzo Suárez de Figueroa, Gran Maestre de la Orden Militar de Santiago. Cuando los Reyes Católicos asumieron los maestrazgos de todas las órdenes militares dicho palacio pasó a ser propiedad de la corona española. Después de ser e
Chinese products, especially silks and porcelains, had long been known in the West. The earliest imported porcelains were mostly blue-and-white pieces from the period of Emperor Ming, Wan Li. Chinese makers soon grasped that Europeans knew little of porcelain and began producing export products that were accepted as authentic artworks in the West, despite their vulgar appearance and even their imp
This sort of English painted enamel object was first made around 1725, but little is known of the early production, in part because this was a very modest craft. It reached its zenith between 1753 and 1756, when such pieces were manufactured by a London firm in Battersea that even employed decorative artists from the nearby Chelsea porcelain factory. This firm declared bankruptcy in 1756 and its m
