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  Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Chinese and Japanese Export Porcelain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Chinese Export Porcelain from the Reeves Collection at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia.
Gustafson, Eleanor H. "Museum Accessions" (Worcester and Chinese export porcelain donated to Historic Deerfield by Mrs.
Chinese Export Porcelain in the 19th Century: The Canton Famille Rose Porcelains in the Alma Cleveland Porter Collection.
www.si.edu /Encyclopedia_SI/nmah/chinexp.htm   (441 words)

  
  Chinese export porcelain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chinese export porcelain refers to a wide range of porcelain that was made and decorated in China exclusively for export to Europe between the 16th and the 20th century.
Chinese export porcelain from the late 17th century included Blue and white and Famille verte wares (and occasionally Famille noire and jaune).
Chinese Imari continued to be made for export into the second half of the 18th century, examples being recovered as part of the Nanking cargo from the wreck of the Geldermalsen.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_export_porcelain   (928 words)

  
 Chinese porcelain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chinese porcelain is mainly made using porcelain stone, china clay or a combination of the two materials.
Porcelain stone and china clay are both platy minerals, which is to say that they are composed to varying degrees of small platelets of high surface area (external and internal) and are capable of holding relatively large amounts of water.
Chinese ceramic wares are also often classified as being either northern or southern, so called because present day China comprises two separate, and from the geological point of view distinctly different land masses, the northern and the southern.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_porcelain   (3166 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Chinese export porcelain
Porcelain was first made by the Chinese to withstand the great heat generated in certain parts of their kilns.
Chinese export porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur.
East that Chinese porcelains began to be exported to the West...
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Chinese+export+porcelain   (818 words)

  
 Standard patterns on Chinese Export Porcelain
But, thanks to this general practice most Chinese Export porcelain of the 18th century could be dated with a high degree of accuracy within a few years of it date of production by comparison with the border designs of dated armorial porcelain.
Long ago, in the days when China was ruled by emperors, a Chinese manderin, Tso Ling, lived in the magnificent pagoda under the branches of the apple tree on the right of the bridge, over which droops the famous willow tree, and in front of which is seen the graceful lines of the fence.
The often-repeated "truth", that the export porcelain as a rule was of less quality because of some kind of contempt for the westerners, is as I see it largely a misunderstanding based on lack of knowledge.
www.gotheborg.com /qa/exportforthewest.shtml   (2617 words)

  
 Rare Chinese Export Porcelain Exhibition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Although porcelain was incidental to the success of the trade, the quantity of exported items – some 300 million pieces that are believed to have reached England over two centuries – ensured a lasting influence on Western taste and the history of ceramics.
Two extensive porcelain services featured in the exhibition are particular strengths of the Museum's collection: one group consisting of more than 200 pieces from about 1795 for the family of Samuel Chase of Baltimore, Maryland, and the other from circa 1765 that was made for the Portuguese Saldanha family.
Porcelain was only part of the extensive trade between China and the West, and cargoes were full of tea, silks, paintings, lacquerware, metalwork, and ivory.
artantiques.allinfo-about.com /weekly/features/chineseporc.html   (818 words)

  
 Antique Chinese Porcelain, Ming,Qing porcelain pottery, marks
Chinese porcelain from Kangxi, Kang Hsi, Ming and Qing Dynasty Chinese porcelain.
Antique chinese export porcelain from late Ming dynasty, such as vases, blanc de chine blue and white bowl canton emporer.
Ming vase, wucai, Canton, export, antique Chinese porcelain immortal imperial Jiajing Jingdezhen porcelain.
www.gotheborg.com   (534 words)

  
 Chinese Canton Porcelain
Most of the porcelain shipped from China to the West during the 17th Century through the 19th Century was formerly known as "China trade porcelain", although now it is commonly referred to as Chinese export porcelain, including the blue and white Canton ware.
The interest in Chinese export porcelain is reflected in the new awareness and appreciation by an increasing number of collectors as well as museum curators.
Still, the market for Chinese export ware in general, since Hong Kong’s retrieval from China may have an impact on the availability of Chinese goods and antiques, may be reflected in the monetary value of the porcelain.
aarf.com /fecant98.htm   (1153 words)

  
 Chinese Export Porcelain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Chinese porcelain was made from a combination of kaolin clay and finely ground feldspathic rock.
Like all overglaze painting on porcelain, the red and gold become unstable when buried in the ground, and the colours may cling more closely to the dirt than to the porcelain.
Batavian Chinese export porcelain is characaterized by iron wash or "dead leaf" on the vessel exterior.
www.stmarys.ca /academic/arts/anthropology/sdavis/ceramics/chinese.htm   (183 words)

  
 Chinese Export Porcelain
Porcelain was developed in China over 1,300 years ago, but until the late 17th century the secret of porcelain manufacture was unknown outside the Orient.
Porcelain made in China for export throughout the world is termed Chinese Export Porcelain.
Chinese attempted to compete with the English products by imitating them, by the early 19th century English "china" had largely replaced Chinese Export Porcelain in the homes of Canadians.
fortress.uccb.ns.ca /archaeology/china/exporte.htm   (918 words)

  
 Oriental : Export : All Items on Ruby Lane
Chinese export porcelain bird with brown body and brown yellow and white feathers perched on green rock and vine stump.
Chinese export porcelain bird enameled in a sancai scheme with bird of turquoise body, on a rock and vine perch painted green.
Chinese export porcelain sancai egret with pale green body and aubergine beak and comb perched on darker green rock.
search.rubylane.com /search/,id=55.3.html   (1292 words)

  
 Chinese Export Porcelain and Oriental Art Cohen and Cohen Oriental Ceramics
Pair of Chinese export soup plates decorated in famille rose with a mythological scene of a goddess holding a cornucopia reclining next to a lion and a young boy, enclosed within a Meissen-style panel frame, the rim with a gilt lacework border, also copying Meissen.
Chinese export plate decorated en grisaille, iron red and gilt with a central classical scene en grisaille and at the rim a narrow border of densely scrolling lotus in rouge de fer and gilt.
A Chinese export plate painted en grisaille, iron red and gilt of a European style scene finely painted with a nymph and ram surrounded by putti in a pastoral setting, the cavetto with a gilt spear border and the rim with a Meissen style gilt lace border.
www.cohenandcohen.co.uk /oct04   (2149 words)

  
 Chinese Export Porcelain, Japanese Imari, Chinoiserie, Armorial at Arttiques.com
Chinese Export Porcelain, Japanese Imari, Chinoiserie, Armorial at Arttiques.com
Porcelain pagodas, dragons, fu-dogs and phoenixes, meditation sages, buildings with upward curving roofs, gardens and landscapes with flowering trees and rocks belonged in the image people had of China and were thus depicted on faience.
Porcelain of the reign of Kang Hsi (1662-1722), exhibits an enormous variety of forms and decorations.
www.arttiques.com /about_export2.html   (1036 words)

  
 CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN at ONE OF A KIND ANTIQUES
This Chinese porcelain vase measures 5 inches high and the top is 2 and one quarter inches in diameter, at the opening.
This Chinese porcelain planter has the most wonderful glaze and is in excellent original condition with the exception of one small star crack on its side which is clearly shown in one of the photographs provided.
This Chinese porcelain plant pot has the most wonderful painting under glaze on the underneath and is in excellent original condition and has the original under tray.
pages.antiquesandarts.com /5002/InventoryPage/912454/1.html?pageNo=1&catId=5   (1408 words)

  
 Chinese Export Porcelain in the Red Sea
The Chinese imitated a Japanese style of decoration, using red, gold, and other colored enamels on top of a cobalt blue underglaze after the piece was fired.
Our problem was in discovering the original decoration schemes for the Sadana porcelain because almost all the Sadana Island porcelains had lost their brilliant enamel colors to the unrelenting erosion of the sea.
It is possible to trace the original location of colored enamels on the porcelains because the overglaze lasts long enough to protect the fired white surface from the effects of salt water.
www.adventurecorps.com /sadana/porcelain.html   (1261 words)

  
 Chinese Export Porcelain: Sallea Antiques
The term “export porcelain” refers, however, to the pieces made expressly for the European market when, in the 18th century, the fashion in tableware among the European aristocracy shifted from base and precious metals to porcelain..
A good portion of the Chinese pieces made for export were decorated in the famille rose style which featured luminous opaque enamels in a palette of colors that ranged from pale pink to deep ruby and purple.
These colors were termed by the Chinese as “soft” colors (rose pinks in combination with light yellow, green and blue) as opposed to the “hard” colors (underglaze blue and polychrome enamels dominated by brilliant green) that had characterized the reign of K’ang His (1662-1722).
www.salleaantiques.com /exportporcelain.htm   (508 words)

  
 Magazine Antiques: Chinese export porcelain with Arabic inscriptions
The export of hard-paste porcelain until the middle of the eighteenth century was a virtual Chinese monopoly, although Japan also produced a certain amount of porcelain.
The technology of making hard-paste porcelain, until it was discovered independently at Meissen, made it worth sailing halfway around the world to acquire durable tablewares in such elegant shapes and with such colorful enameling.
Porcelain of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) in under-glaze blue became the rage in Europe and was imitated in glazed earthenware at Delft and other sites throughout the Continent and Britain.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1026/is_3_157/ai_60370499   (377 words)

  
 Chinese Export Porcelain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Porcelain is a hard, high fired glass-like ceramic which has a translucent quality.
Chinese porcelain was produced from a mixture of kaolin clay and very finely ground feldspathic rock.
Eight hundred and forty-six specimens of Chinese Export Porcelain were recovered from Central Trust.
museum.gov.ns.ca /arch/sites/central/porcel.htm   (145 words)

  
 East and West: Chinese Export Porcelain | Thematic Essay | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Porcelains were only a small part of the trade—the cargoes were full of tea, silks, paintings, lacquerware, metalwork, and ivory.
Porcelain decorated only in blue pigment painted under the glaze dominated the export trade until the very end of the seventeenth century.
With the appearance of porcelain factories in Europe in the early eighteenth century, the demand for Chinese export porcelain began to diminish, and by the second half of the century the trade was in serious decline.
www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/ewpor/hd_ewpor.htm   (959 words)

  
 David Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, Chinese and Japanese ceramic, porcelain, and pottery books.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This was written for the exhibition of Japanese export porcelain at the British Museum.
An excellent survey of the China trade in export porcelains including chapters on the early history, technical aspects, blue and white, evolution of polychrome decoration, blanc de Chine, celadons, scenes and subjects, and all of the various countries involved in the trade.
The very interesting perspective of the "private traders" in Chinese export ceramics as opposed to that of the East India Company is explored by the author.
ceramicbooks.com /orient.htm   (2373 words)

  
 Chinese Export Porcelain
Chinese Export was made in China exclusively for export, between the years 1780 and 1880 and a little into the 20th century.
However, the quality of porcelain produced for trade with the West was never high enough to be acceptable to the Chinese themselves.
Indeed, early export porcelain was quite heavy, perhaps to provide greater weight as non-spoiling ballast on the tall-masted clipper ships.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/antiques_and_collectibles/14726   (440 words)

  
 Article-Chinese Export Porcelain, Standard Patterns and Forms, 1780-1880- Standard Patterns and Forms
Chinese Export Porcelain, Standard Patterns and Forms contains over 1000 items illustrated in fl and white and 49 color plates.
Chinese Porcelain: Art, Elegance, and Appreciation (Art of China) (Art of China (San Francisco.
The popularity of Japanese ceramics in the West caused a vast and delightful variety of wares to be made in the late nineteenth century for export.
www.minihttpserver.net /z_book/A_chinese_export_porce-0916838013.htm   (403 words)

  
 DUOMO ANTIQUES Antiques,Decorative Art,Ceramics Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Porcelain covered jar painted in underglaze blue with a standing crane flanked by evergreen trees and another crane in flight.
Set of six Chinese Export Porcelain cups and saucers with grisaille decoration showing a man sitting on rocks holding a staff with a castle in the background.
Large Chinese Export Porcelain Washbasin decorated on the outside with four flowering sprigs, the rim with a Nanking border and the inside of bowl with flowering sprigs and central roundel.The inside wall of basin has a heavy stain from usage.
www.duomoantiques.com /catalog/Antiques:Decorative_Art:Ceramics.html   (383 words)

  
 Chinese Export Porcelain, Mottahedeh, Antique China at Arttiques.com
From the 17th century, immense quantities of Chinese porcelain were carried by trading ships to Europe.
The first Chinese porcelain to reach the American continent came to the west coast in the 16th century on Spanish ships from the Philippines.
Chinese Export Porcelain: From the Museum of Anastacio Goncalves, Lisbon
www.arttiques.com /about_export.html   (362 words)

  
 Chinese Porcelain Trade
Chinese taste type of porcelain is all that was made mainly for the Asian markets; this can further be divided into two categories.
Porcelain trade took on the form of a near revolution in the way it not only spread but also created new varieties and forms of exquisite porcelain from different parts of the world due to the cultural exchange brought about by trade.
While Chinese manufacturing and skill had great impact on the European Ceramic industry, the Chinese ceramic world was also enriched by the various art styles with increased contact with Europe.
www.asianartmall.com /chineseporcelainarticle.htm   (610 words)

  
 Magazine Antiques: Chinese export porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur - Winterthur - ...
Mary was one of many in a long line of connoisseurs and collectors captivated by the allure of Chinese export porcelain.
One of the leading collectors of Chinese export porcelain in the United States was Henry Francis du Pont (p.
The Hodroff Collection is especially rich in pieces that show the influence of European design on the forms and decoration of export porcelain, providing an opportunity to examine the complex interaction between East and West that produced the objects that had, and continue to have, such appeal.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1026/is_1_161/ai_81891363   (409 words)

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