Ming Dynasty
Chinese Ceramics – ‘Knowledge Comes from Seeing Much’
Chinese ceramics became known to the wider world from the Tang Dynasty (618- 907) onward; the word ‘China’ eventually became the generic name for porcelain
Ming Magic
A description of the manufacture of porcelain in 1713 by French Jesuit priest Father D’Entrecolles, a resident in Peking, relates the firing of blue and white porcelain ‘A beautiful blue colour appears on the porcelain after having been lost for some time. When the colour is first painted on, it is pale black; when it [...]
First Stirrings of the China Trade Precious Cargoes of Cathay
Ceramic traditions since ancient times have undergone many cross fertilizations by their exposure to various cultures. The first stirring of what we now describe as the China Trade began when Europe was still emerging from the medieval period and would build momentum slowly peaking during the nineteenth century.
CIVILISED – At the Beginnings of Art – Day 10 Precious Cargoes from Cathay
Marco Polo said….let us now…travel into Cathay, so.. you may learn something of its grandeurs and… treasures… inspiring the notion at the turn of the fourteenth century China was a land, unlike any other; an idea that found fertile ground in the imagination of western people. We survey Chinese ceramics including those of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) when the most splendid wares made for the Imperial Court, as well as the more exacting home markets of China, attracted connoisseurs and collectors, especially Imperial yellow monochromes.
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