A fact from Fonthill Vase appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 July 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the Fonthill vase(pictured) is the earliest documented example of Chinese porcelain to have reached Europe, in the middle of the 14th century?
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The Wrightsman Coll catalogue Vol 4 by the Met has a good passage on this, at the start of the mounted porcelain section - more and better info. Fully online. Johnbod (talk) 00:37, 28 August 2018 (UTC)Reply