欧洲瓷器发展历史较晚,由西亚、北非等地,如波斯、土耳其和埃及等国辗转传入。约在15世纪,阿拉伯人开始在西班牙烧造中国式瓷器,而后制瓷方法传入意大利,为欧洲陶瓷史开辟了一个新的纪元。17世纪下半叶起,德国、法国、荷兰、英国、意大利等国都纷纷仿造中国瓷器。但研制瓷器的道路并不是一帆风顺,Jan Divis在《欧洲瓷器》一书中写道:“十七、十八世纪之 The history of European porcelain development is late, passed from West Asia, North Africa and other places, such as Persia, Turkey and Egypt. About the 15th century, Arabs began to burn Chinese-style porcelain in Spain and porcelain-making methods were introduced to Italy, opening up a new era for European ceramic history. From the second half of the 17th century, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Britain, Italy and other countries all copied Chinese porcelain. However, the development of porcelain is not a smooth sailing, Jan Divis in ”European porcelain,“ a book wrote: ”Seventeenth and eighteenth Century