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The vases have been described as the "best-known porcelain vases in the world" [1] and among the most important blue-and-white Chinese porcelains. [ 2 ] Though they are fine examples of their type, their special significance comes from the date in the inscriptions on the vases. [ 1 ]
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 ...
The Vase with the Poet Zhou Dunyi is a traditional Chinese porcelain vase produced in 1587, during the Ming Dynasty. [1] The Vase can be identified by its Wanli Mark and period qualities, constituting its cobalt blue paintings decorating the transparent glazed porcelain. [ 1 ]
The collection concentrates on pieces in the "Chinese taste" rather than export ware, and on Imperial porcelain, much of it Jingdezhen ware. It includes examples of the rare Ru and Guan wares and two important Yuan dynasty blue and white porcelain temple vases (the "David Vases"), the oldest dated blue and white porcelain pieces, from 1351. [2]
Qingbai in Chinese literally means "clear blue-white". The qingbai glaze is a porcelain glaze, so-called because it was made using pottery stone. The qingbai glaze is clear, but contains iron in small amounts. When applied over a white porcelain body the glaze produces a greenish-blue colour that gives the glaze its name.
It has produced a great variety of pottery and porcelain, for the Chinese market and as Chinese export porcelain, but its best-known high quality porcelain wares have been successively Qingbai ware in the Song and Yuan dynasties, blue and white porcelain from the 1330s, and the "famille rose" and other "famille" colours under the Qing dynasty.