Ceramic art the raw material of porcelain in Arita and produced first true porcelain in Japan. In the 17th century, conditions in China drove some of its potters into Japan, bringing with them the knowledge to make refined porcelain. From the mid-century, the Dutch East India Company began to import Japanese porcelain into Europe. At this time, Kakiemon wares were produced at the factories of Arita, which had much in common with the Chinese Famille Verte style. The superb quality of its enamel decoration was highly prized in the West and widely imitated by the major European porcelain manufacturers. In 1971 it
Pacte de Famille Pacte de Famille The Pacte de Famille (, "Family Compact"; ) is one of three separate, but similar alliances between the Bourbon kings of France and Spain. The first of these ("Primer Pacto de Familia") was made on November 7, 1733 by King Philip V of Spain and King Louis XV of France in the "Treaty of the Escorial". Philip V was the grandson of Louis XIV and had become the first Bourbon King of Spain in 1700 upon the extinction of Spanish Habsburgs. After a long war, the War of the Spanish Succession, he was recognized as king by