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  2. Chinese bronze inscriptions - Wikipedia

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    mǎ horse 虎 hǔ tiger 豕 shǐ swine 犬 quǎn dog 象 xiàng elephant 龜 guī turtle 為 wèi to lead 疾 jí illness 馬 虎 豕 犬 象 龜 為 疾 mǎ hǔ shǐ quǎn xiàng guī wèi jí horse tiger swine dog elephant turtle {to lead} illness Of the 12,000 inscribed bronzes extant today, roughly 3,000 date from the Shang dynasty, 6,000 from the Zhou dynasty, and the final 3,000 from the ...

  3. Famille rose - Wikipedia

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    A selection of falangcai porcelains Bowl with peacock in falangcai painted enamels, Yongzheng reign. National Palace Museum. The origin of famille rose is not entirely clear. It is believed that this colour palette was introduced to the Imperial court in China by Jesuits, achieved through the use of purple of Cassius, initially on enamels used on metal wares such as cloisonné produced in the ...

  4. Transitional porcelain - Wikipedia

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    Vase with landscape, mid-century Dragon dish, Late Ming, c. 1640. Transitional porcelain is Jingdezhen porcelain, manufactured at China's principle ceramic production area, in the years during and after the transition from Ming to Qing. As with several previous changes of dynasty in China, this was a protracted and painful period of civil war.

  5. Tongzhi porcelain - Wikipedia

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    Imperial Presentation Vase, Tongzhi Mark and Period, Nantoyōsō Collection, Japan. Tongzhi porcelain is Chinese porcelain from the reign of the Qing dynasty Tongzhi Emperor (1862–1874), which saw the reconstruction of the Jingdezhen official kilns after the Taiping Rebellion of the 1850s completely devastated the cities of Nanjing and Jingdezhen.

  6. Chinese ceramics - Wikipedia

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    Chinese ceramics show a continuous development since pre-dynastic times and the first pottery was made during the Palaeolithic era. Porcelain was a Chinese invention and is so identified with China that it is still called "china" in everyday English usage. Pair of famille rose vases with landscapes of the four seasons, 1760–1795

  7. Chinese ritual bronzes - Wikipedia

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    Móu (鍪): A vase with two handles. Vessels of this type are classed as hú (壺) in the Xiqing gujian. Píng (瓶): Tall vase with a long slender neck opening up to a narrow mouth. Pǒu (瓿, pronounced bù in China): A small bronze wèng (甕). Wèng (瓮 or 甕): Round mouthed, round bellied jar with no foot for holding water or wine. Now ...

  8. Canton porcelain - Wikipedia

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    Canton or Cantonese porcelain is the characteristic style of ceramic ware decorated in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong and (prior to 1842) the sole legal port for export of Chinese goods to Europe.

  9. Doucai - Wikipedia

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    Small cup with the "Five Treasures", Chenghua reign mark, 2.9 × 7 cm, PDF.767. Doucai (Chinese: 斗彩; Wade–Giles: tou-ts'ai) is a technique in painting Chinese porcelain, where parts of the design, and some outlines of the rest, are painted in underglaze blue, and the piece is then glazed and fired.

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