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The Willow pattern is a distinctive and elaborate chinoiserie pattern used on ceramic tableware. It became popular at the end of the 18th century in England when, in its standard form, it was developed by English ceramic artists combining and adapting motifs inspired by fashionable hand-painted blue-and-white wares imported from Qing dynasty ...
Chinese export porcelain made for European markets was a well-developed trade before Japanese production of porcelain even began, but the Japanese kilns were able to take a significant share of the market from the 1640s, when the wars of the transition between the Ming dynasty and the Qing dynasty disrupted production of the Jingdezhen porcelain that made up the bulk of production for Europe ...
The Topkapi Palace then had the largest collection of Chinese porcelain outside China. [3] European visitors to Istanbul in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are recorded as having purchased Chinese porcelain there. [4] Some other pieces came via the Portuguese settlement of Malacca; King Manuel I had several acquired from Vasco da Gama.
Mino ware square dish with autumn grasses design, grey Nezumi-Shino type, Azuchi-Momoyama to Edo period, 16th–17th century Mino ware cornered bowl in Oribe type, Edo period, 17th century Mino ware ( 美濃焼 , Mino-yaki ) is a style of Japanese pottery , stoneware, and ceramics that is produced in Mino Province , mainly in the cities of ...
Shino ware (志野焼, Shino-yaki) is Japanese pottery, usually stoneware, originally from Mino Province, in present-day Gifu Prefecture, Japan. It emerged in the 16th century, but the use of shino glaze is now widespread, both in Japan and abroad. It is identified by thick white glazes, red scorch marks, and a texture of small holes.
According to tradition, the Korean potter Yi Sam-pyeong (d. 1655), or Kanagae Sanbee (金ヶ江三兵衛), is often considered the father of Arita ware porcelain. [2] [3] This narrative is however disputed by many historians.
Chintzware, or chintz pottery, describes chinaware and pottery covered with a dense, all-over pattern of flowers (similar to chintz textile patterns) or, less often, other objects. It is a form of transferware where the pattern is applied by transfer printing as opposed to the more traditional method of painting by hand.
The decorative patterns used in these export wares may be referred to as Rose Canton, Rose Mandarin and Rose Medallion. [ 18 ] Famille rose enamels were known to have been used in Europe before its usage became established in China, for example in Vienna porcelain made by the Du Paquier factory in 1725. [ 9 ]