Thirty Lectures on Blue and White Porcelain

Author: Liu Li / Tang Hongquan (editors)
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: The Shang Dynasty people could already fire primitive celadon, and by the Eastern Han Dynasty, the production technology of porcelain had become quite mature. Especially the use of cobalt blue in Tang Sancai glaze from Gongxian and the white porcelain from Gongxian created conditions for the emergence of blue-and-white porcelain. This book poses thirty questions in sequence, providing a detailed introduction to when blue-and-white porcelain first appeared in China, in which dynasty the blue-and-white porcelain with a clear excavation date was found, why blue-and-white porcelain is considered pivotal in the history of Chinese ceramics, how academia classifies blue-and-white porcelain, what the four essential elements of blue-and-white porcelain production are, what production processes are involved in its making, what the content, basis, and methods of identifying blue-and-white porcelain are, what the techniques of faking ancient works are, and what terminology should be mastered in the process of identifying porcelain. Illustrated with images and text!