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  2. Factory mark - Wikipedia

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    20th-century Jingdezhen ware, with factory mark: 中国景德镇 ("China Jingdezhen") and MADE IN CHINA in English. A factory mark is a marking affixed by manufacturers on their productions in order to authenticate them. Numerous factory marks are known throughout the ages, and are essential in determining the provenance or dating of productions.

  3. 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

  4. Dehua porcelain - Wikipedia

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    Dehua porcelain ink brush holder, with design of carved cranes and lotuses worked into the paste. Late 17th–18th century (Qing dynasty), 9.7 cm (3.8 in) tallDehua porcelain (Chinese: 德化陶瓷; pinyin: Déhuà Táocí; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tek-hòe hûi), more traditionally known in the West as Blanc de Chine (French for "White from China"), is a type of white Chinese porcelain, made at Dehua ...

  5. Famille jaune, noire, rose, verte - Wikipedia

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    Genuine famille noire wares were made in the Kangxi era, although some clobbered wares had the black added to famille verte porcelain in the 19th century. They may have a copper-green lead-based enamel painted over dry black cobalt ground on the biscuit, and a transparent green glaze was then applied, giving it a near-iridescent appearance.

  6. 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.

  7. Arts of China - Wikipedia

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    The arts of China (simplified Chinese: 中国艺术; traditional Chinese: 中國藝術) have varied throughout its ancient history, divided into periods by the ruling dynasties of China and changing technology, but still containing a high degree of continuity. Different forms of art have been influenced by great philosophers, teachers ...

  8. Debenhams - Wikipedia

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    Debenhams agreed to become the anchor store at the Riverside shopping centre in Shrewsbury. [61] By September 2012, the company announced that like-for-like sales had risen by 3.3% in the six months up to that date. [62] Debenhams, Bradford. Debenhams moved to a new headquarters in 2013, in Brock Street, London built by British Land.

  9. 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. As such, it was one of the major forms of exportware produced in China in the 18th and 20th centuries.