| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - With allusion to the fineness, beauty and fragility of this ware, porcelain has been used figuratively, especially of a woman or her complexion, since the first half of the C17th, e.g.: ???She is herself the purest piece of Purslane??? that e???er had liquid sweetmeats lick???d out of it.??? (Richard Brome, The Sparagus Garden, 1640)
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