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Chinese blue-and-white ware were copied in Europe from the 16th century, with the faience blue-and-white technique called alla porcelana. Soon after the first experiments to reproduce the material of Chinese blue-and-white porcelain were made with Medici porcelain. These early works seem to be mixing influences from Islamic as well as Chinese ...
Qingbai ("Blueish-white") glazed bowl with carved peony designs, Jingdezhen, Southern Song, 1127–1279 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.
Blue Willow china and its legends appear in Lee Blessing's play Going to St. Ives. In Terry Pratchett's novel Interesting Times, an oriental artist is about to paint (on a plate) a picture of a garden scene when some sumo wrestlers and guards come crashing through and destroy his entire palette except for blue. He resolves to paint, in just ...
In 1970 a small fragment of a blue and white bowl, again dated to the 11th century, was also excavated in the province of Zhejiang. In 1975, shards decorated with underglaze blue were excavated at a kiln site in Jiangxi and, in the same year, an underglaze blue and white urn was excavated from a tomb dated to 1319, in the province of Jiangsu.
Kraak Ware Dish, early 17th century; Chinese for the European market; Hard paste; Diam. 11 1 ⁄ 4 in. (28.6 cm); Metropolitan Museum, New York City, 1995.268.1 ; Pair of Chinese Blue and White Kraak Ware Dishes, Wanli Reign; Christie's, London: Lot 478/Sale 5093, 29 March 2007; Kraak ware collection in the Princesshof Museum, Leeuwarden ...
It was believed that early blue-and-white ware was produced only for export, and that blue-and-white was denigrated in China before it gained acceptance. The early Ming work Gegu Yaolun (格古要論) described blue and multi-coloured ware as "exceedingly vulgar". However, the David vases showed that blue-and-white porcelains were produced for ...