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canton porcelain

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Can·ton porcelain   (kān'tŏn')   
n.  Porcelain having a blue or white underglaze, decorated in the enameling workshops of Canton (now Guangzhou) and exported from China during the 18th and early 19th centuries. Also called Chinese export porcelain.

[After Canton (Guangzhou), China.]
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