The envy of potters and collectors in Europe and the Middle East, Chinese blue-and-white porcelain owed its excellence to the fine clay available to the Chinese as well as to their high ...

These porcelains from the collections of the Freer Gallery are part of a 1,500-year-old tradition of making porcelains in Jingdezhen, China. Porcelain production during the Kangxi period (1662–1722) ...

But it was Aylieff's immersion into China's blue-and-white ceramics production that marked a new beginning in her career, as ...

The London-based artist is fascinated by blue-and-white porcelain and the way certain pieces inspire familiarity.

a renowned Chinese master of traditional craftsmanship and fine arts. They were profoundly impressed by an array of exquisite blue-and-white porcelain pieces. Among these, the most striking was ...

Cobalt for blue-and-white ceramics, for example, came from Iran; it was not recovered from ore in China until much later. Although Arab mariners clearly plied the Maritime Silk Route, trading on a ...

it's Chinese blue-and-white porcelain. We now think of blue-and-white as quintessentially Chinese, but as we shall discover, this is not how it began. This archetypal Chinese aesthetic comes in ...