Porcelain in England in 1748 in order to compete with imported porcelain, bone china is now made worldwide. The English had read the letters of Jesuit missionary Francois Xavier d'Entrecolles, which described Chinese porcelain manufacturing secrets in detail. One writer has speculated that a misunderstanding of the text could possibly have been responsible for the first attempts to use bone-ash as an ingredient of English porcelain, although this is not supported by researchers and historians. In China, kaolin was sometimes described as forming the 'bones' of the paste, while the 'flesh' was provided by the refined rocks suitable for the porcelain
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