The term Meissen is frequently misused. Meissen is a town in Germany where a porcelain factory was built about 1710. Over the years, country borders were redrawn by numerous wars, so although the Meissen factory never moved from its original location, its address changed to Saxony, then Prussia, and finally Germany.
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