The Arcanum: The Extraordinary True Story
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ISBN: 0446674842 / Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, January 2000
The #1 bestseller in England tells the story of the obsessive pursuit of the secret formula to 18th-century Europe's most precious commodity -- fine porcelain.
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Tells the story of how the West learned to make porcelain, focusing on Bottger, who discovered the arcanum, or secret formula; and Herold and Kandler, artists at the new Meissen Porcelain Manufacture.
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