The body of Chinese blue-and-white porcelain is made from a fine ... I think Americans are always looking forward, whereas people in old countries like China and India are often looking back.

But it was Aylieff's immersion into China's blue-and-white ceramics production that marked ... and their "universal" resonance. "I am very old-fashioned in the fact that I love beautiful things ...

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) ...