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Five such bone china prototypes were made. The subsequent unlimited batch production was in porcelain, this having a bluer colour than the original bone china. In 2008, she began experimenting with a whiter porcelain, closer to the character of bone china. This teapot is the first to be made in this whiter porcelain body. 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