Chinese blue and white porcelain

Author: Li Dejin
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: This book is rich in data and offers unique arguments, providing multi-angle introductions and explorations of early Chinese blue-and-white porcelain as objects, artifacts, and artworks. It focuses on the origins of blue-and-white porcelain in the Tang Dynasty, its development in the Song Dynasty, and the reasons for its rise in the Yuan Dynasty. It also elaborates on the relationship between the colors "blue and white" and the long-standing customs and religious traditions of various ethnic groups. With fresh perspectives and a wealth of little-known historical and technological hand materials from China and Persia, this book presents a completely new picture of the history and circulation of early Chinese blue-and-white porcelain to scholars worldwide, making it a book worth preserving.