François Xavier d'Entrecolles, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French Jesuit priest
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Place of Birth: Limoges, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
About François Xavier d'Entrecolles
- François Xavier d'Entrecolles (1664 in Lyon – 1741 in Beijing; Chinese name: ???, Yin Hongxu) was a French Jesuit priest, who learned the Chinese technique of manufacturing porcelain through his investigations in China at Jingdezhen with the help of Chinese Catholic converts between 1712 and 1722, during the rule of the Kangxi Emperor.
- His observations were published in a long letter in 1712, and carefully studied in several European countries, even though Meissen porcelain was already making hard-paste porcelain in Germany by then.
- The letter's author was given as Père d'Entrecolles ("Father d'Entrecolles"), and he is still very often referred to as this.
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