china vs porcelain

china

noun
  • Chinaware: porcelain tableware. 

  • Synonym of porcelain, a hard white translucent ceramic made from kaolin, now (chiefly US) sometimes distinguished in reference to tableware as fine or good china. 

  • Synonym of China rose, in its various senses. 

  • A kind of drum cymbal approximating a Chinese style of cymbal, but usually with Turkish influences. 

  • Synonym of China root, the root of Smilax china (particularly) as a medicine. 

  • Synonym of mate (rhyme of china-plate). 

porcelain

noun
  • Synonym of china: porcelain tableware. 

  • Synonym of cowrie. 

  • A kind of pigeon with deep brown and off-white feathers. 

  • An object made of porcelain, (particularly) art objects or items of tableware. 

  • A hard white translucent ceramic, originally made by firing kaolin, quartz, and feldspar at high temperatures but now also inclusive of similar artificial materials; also often (figurative) such a material as a symbol of the fragility, elegance, etc. traditionally associated with porcelain goods. 

How often have the words china and porcelain occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )