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  2. Chinese ceramics - Wikipedia

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    Chinese ceramics show a continuous development since pre-dynastic times and the first pottery was made during the Palaeolithic era. Porcelain was a Chinese invention and is so identified with China that it is still called "china" in everyday English usage. Pair of famille rose vases with landscapes of the four seasons, 1760–1795

  3. Chinese export porcelain - Wikipedia

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    Chinese export porcelain. An armorial dinner service for the American market, c. 1785–1790. Chinese blue and white export porcelain, with European scene and French inscription "The Empire of virtue is established to the end of the Universe", Kangxi period, 1690–1700. Chinese export porcelain includes a wide range of Chinese porcelain that ...

  4. Jingdezhen porcelain - Wikipedia

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    Early blue and white porcelain, c. 1335, the shape from Islamic metalwork. Jingdezhen porcelain (Chinese: 景德镇陶瓷) is Chinese porcelain produced in or near Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province in southern China. Jingdezhen may have produced pottery as early as the sixth century CE, though it is named after the reign name of Emperor Zhenzong ...

  5. Blue and white pottery - Wikipedia

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    qīng-huā. Dutch delftware vase in a Japanese style, c. 1680. " Blue and white pottery " (Chinese: 青花; pinyin: qīng-huā; lit. 'Blue flowers/patterns') covers a wide range of white pottery and porcelain decorated under the glaze with a blue pigment, generally cobalt oxide. The decoration was commonly applied by hand, originally by brush ...

  6. Porcelain - Wikipedia

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    Chinese Jingdezhen porcelain moonflask with underglaze blue and red. Qianlong period, 1736 to 1796. Porcelain (/ ˈpɔːrs (ə) lɪn /) is a ceramic material made by heating raw materials, generally including kaolinite, in a kiln to temperatures between 1,200 and 1,400 °C (2,200 and 2,600 °F). The greater strength and translucence of ...

  7. Canton porcelain - Wikipedia

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    Canton porcelain. Canton or Cantonese porcelain is the characteristic style of ceramic ware decorated in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong and (prior to 1842) the sole legal port for export of Chinese goods to Europe. As such, it was one of the major forms of exportware produced in China in the 18th and 20th centuries.

  8. China painting - Wikipedia

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    Painters' workshop at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory in Vienna c. 1830. Porcelain painting in Weimar, Germany in 1989. China painting, or porcelain painting, [a] is the decoration of glazed porcelain objects such as plates, bowls, vases or statues. The body of the object may be hard-paste porcelain, developed in China in the 7th or 8th ...

  9. Qingbai ware - Wikipedia

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    Qingbai ware (Chinese: 青白; pinyin: qīngbái; lit. 'green-white') is a type of Chinese porcelain produced under the Song Dynasty and Yuan dynasty, defined by the ceramic glaze used. [1] Qingbai ware is white with a blue-greenish tint, and is also referred to as Yingqing ("shadow green", although this name appears only to date from the 18th ...

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