Word: bottger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tails & Top Hats. Meissen dates back to the early 18th century, when it became Europe's first true china manufacturer. Alchemist Johann Friedrich Bottger was employed by Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, to find a way to turn base metal into gold; instead he discovered an ancient Chinese method of making porcelain. Augustus set Bottger up in a medieval castle in the cathedral city of Meissen. There the factory turned out its china until 1865, when it was moved to its present site on a slope overlooking the town. Because Meissen...