Chuck
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You mentioned how valuable it can be.
The world auction record for Chinese porcelain was set about, I don't know, in 2014, when the Mayan Tang chicken cup was sold for $36 million.
And, you know, why is anything valuable?
It's because there's not many of them.
It was crafted between 1465 and 87, when
Porcelain was just peaking at its quality, but they were producing the lowest amount.
So it was just super rare.
So that's why it fetched $36 million.
Yeah, for sure.
I mean, you said bone porcelain.
If you've ever heard bone china, that was something the English did, and that's actual bone.
I think when they were sort of first searching out how to make this stuff, before they cracked the code, they would use like eggshell and stuff like that to no avail.
And finally, they landed on actual human bone ground down.
Obviously, a very strong thing, bone ash would be.
Not from humans, apparently from farm animals.
And it would really strengthen that stuff.
And bone china, you don't have to fire as high.
You can fire at lower temps.