Articles on Antique Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
Chinese Cultural Development - The Chinese Dynasties
20 Mar 2021
Neolithic era (around 10,000 B.C.) Chinese civilisation originated in the Neolithic era, from the development of settled communities built up around the main river systems, (namely the Yellow ri...
Chinese Armorial Porcelain
20 Mar 2021
Chinese Armorial Porcelain – Why collect ? Chinese Armorial Porcelain is often collected for its designs or for the armorials on the different services. However, collecting Chinese Armorial Porc...
The Eight Daoist Immortals
20 Mar 2021
Zhongli Quan Zhongli Quan is the official leader of the Eight Immortals, and is commonly depicted with his bare belly showing. He is known to have many powers, including transmutation and t...
Chinese Kangxi Blue and White Porcelain
Chinese Kangxi porcelain
20 Mar 2021
Comparing Kangxi and Earlier Porcelain Chinese Kangxi blue and white porcelain at its best is superb and rivals any other Chinese blue and white produced during the earlier periods. It may not h...
Buddhist Figures and their Asian Context
Introduction to Buddhist Sculpture
20 Mar 2021
The rapid increase in travel over the last century has led to many people globally becoming familiar with the figure of the Buddha, and very many Buddhist statues are now to be found in the West, f...
The Use of Copper Red in Chinese Ceramics
20 Mar 2021
Fig.1 Towards the end of the Tang dynasty (618-906), the kilns at Tonghuan near Changsha were producing over two hundred different forms of ceramic for export, and were also the site of the...
Stories on a Plate
Chinese Blue and white porcelain stories
20 Mar 2021
Chinese porcelain pots, bowls and dishes, particularly those of the seventeenth century, are often decorated with scenes derived from Chinese stories and novels. Part of the pleasure in colle...
Brief History Of Chinese Drawings On Pith Paper
20 Mar 2021
Chinese watercolours 1 Pith seems not to have been adopted for painting until about 1820. Some European museums claim that their paintings on pith (often erroneously called “rice paper” or “m...
Observations on famille verte porcelain
By Jeffrey Stamen
27 Jan 2025
The sixty-year reign of the Qing emperor Kangxi is widely considered to have begun a golden age in the long tradition of Chinese ceramic production. After the chaos of the fall of the ear...
Chinese Reign Marks
Interpreting Ming and Qing reign marks
8 Oct 2019
The practice of painting marks on porcelain on a regular basis was established during the Xuande reign near the beginning of the Ming period, in the early 15th century. The mark usually consisted o...
