Porcelain arrived in Europe 700 years later. The discoverer and adventurer Marco Polo brought the first porcelain objects to Europe around 1300. Porcelain goods were transported to Europe via trade routes and the sea route from the 16th century onwards. Ships of the British, Danish, French, and Swedish fleet delivered over 1 million pieces of Chinese porcelain into European countries. Great amounts of those pieces were brought to the fine homes of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston but the method of production was still a mystery. The Saxon King August the Strong, was a particularly big fan. He commissioned Johann Friedrich Böttger and Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus to crack the code, which they succeeded in doing and produced the first porcelain object in Dresden, Germany, in the year 1708.