A bull in a china shop

Can you please tell me where/how this phrase originated? Thank you...Sax

The Oxford English Dictionary says very little about it and gives an example of its use from 1841. The phrase may be older than that.

Bull in a China Shop, Like a. Out of place in a siyuation; dealing too roughly with a delicate problem. It's a vivid simile, even though it is most unlikely that a real bull was loose in a china shop. Since the fine porcelain known as china was not introduced into urope until the 16th century and was not manufactured there until the 18th century, the notion of a bull in a china shop is fairly recent. An early example is in Frederick Marryat's _Jacob aithful_ "Whatever it is that smashes,
rs. T. always swear it was the most _valuable_ thing in the room. I'm like a bull in a china shop."
From _The Dictionary of Cliche_ by James Rogers