Hanley when Pankhurst became bankrupt in 1882. In 1980 “Bull in a China Shop” used as a brand name for Wedgwood group Creative Tableware Division inc. G Meakin, Midwinter, Unicorn and Franciscan. 1342 tomb of Katarina Vilioni, member franciscan ware an Italian trading family, in Yangzhou.
Given textual and archaeological evidence, it is thought that thousands of Europeans lived in Imperial China during the period of Mongol rule. Mainly located in places such as the Mongol capital of Karakorum, European missionaries and merchants traveled around the Mongol realm during a period of time referred to by historians as the “Pax Mongolica”. The Italian merchant Marco Polo, preceded by his father and uncle Niccolò and Maffeo Polo, traveled to China during the period of Mongol rule. Before the 13th century AD, instances of Europeans going to China or of Chinese going to Europe were very rare.
Subsequently, there was a series of Roman embassies in China lasting from the 2nd to 3rd centuries AD, as recorded in Chinese sources. Byzantine Greek historian Procopius stated that two Nestorian Christian monks eventually uncovered how silk was made. Marco Polo accurately described geographical features of China such as the Grand Canal. His detailed and accurate descriptions of salt production confirm that he had actually been in China. When visiting Zhenjiang in Jiangsu, China, Marco Polo noted that Christian churches had been built there. Seal of Güyük Khan using the classical Mongolian script, as found in a letter sent to the Roman Pope Innocent IV in 1246.
Letter from Arghun, Khan of the Mongol Ilkhanate, to Pope Nicholas IV, 1290. In Zaytun, the first harbour of China, there was a small Genoese colony, mentioned in 1326 by André de Pérouse. The most famous Italian resident of the city was Andolo de Savignone, who was sent to the West by the Khan in 1336 to obtain “100 horses and other treasures. Other Venetians lived in China, including one who brought a letter to the West from John of Montecorvino in 1305. In 1339 a Venetian named Giovanni Loredano is recorded to have returned to Venice from China.
A tombstone was also discovered in Yangzhou, in the name of Catherine de Villioni, daughter of Dominici, who died there in 1342. The Italian explorer and archbishop Giovanni da Pian del Carpine and Polish friar and traveler Benedykt Polak were the first papal envoys to reach Karakorum after being sent there by Pope Innocent IV in 1245. Oghul Qaimish, the widow of Güyük Khan, ruled as regent over the Mongol realm from 1249 to 1251. China by Pope Nicholas III in 1279. On 15 March 1314 the killings of Francis de Petriolo, Monaldo of Ancona and Anthony of Milan occurred in China. This was followed by the Killing of James, Quanzhou’s bishop, in 1362. His predecessors were Andrew, Peregrinus, and Gerard.
The Franciscan Friar Odoric of Pordenone visited China. Friars in Hangzhou and Zhangzhou were visited by Odorico. In 1333, John de Montecorvino was officially replaced by Nicolaus de Bentra, who was chosen by Pope John XXII. There were complaints of the absence of the archbishop in 1338. In 1370, following the ousting of the Mongols from China and the establishment of the Chinese Ming dynasty, the Pope sent a new mission to China, comprising the Parisian theologian Guillaume du Pré as the new archbishop and 50 Franciscans.