Porcelain Porcelain Porcelain () is a ceramic material made by heating materials, generally including kaolin, in a kiln to temperatures between . The toughness, strength, and translucence of porcelain, relative to other types of pottery, arises mainly from vitrification and the formation of the mineral mullite within the body at these high temperatures. Though definitions vary, porcelain can be divided into three main categories: hard-paste, soft-paste and bone china. The category that an object belongs to depends on the composition of the paste used to make the body of the porcelain object and the firing conditions. Porcelain slowly evolved in China
Picasso's Rose Period period, from the French word for pink, which is "rose". Picasso's third highest selling painting, "Garçon à la pipe (Boy with a pipe)" was painted during the Rose Period. Other significant Rose Period works include: "Woman in a Chemise (Madeleine)" (1904–05), "The Actor" (1904–1905), "Lady with a Fan" (1905), "Two Youths" (1905), "Harlequin Family" (1905), "Harlequin's Family With an Ape" (1905), "La famille de saltimbanques" (1905), "Boy with a Dog" (1905), "Nude Boy" (1906), "Boy Leading a Horse" (1905-06), and "The Girl with a Goat" (1906). Picasso's Rose Period Picasso's Rose Period represents an important epoch in the life and