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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
This was the area where the great majority of early Japanese porcelain, especially Japanese export porcelain, was made. In English usage "Arita ware" was traditionally used for the export wares in blue and white porcelain, mostly copying Chinese styles. The wares with added overglaze colours were called Imari ware or (a sub-group) Kakiemon.
Western materials such as bone china were introduced and developed using Nikko’s own advanced technologies. Today all aspects of production from glaze formulation to mould making are manufactured in-house by Nikko’s team of craftspeople. The resulting pieces are some of the finest quality ceramics in Japan.
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The earliest document that introduces Nabeshima ware to the western world is said to be Japan and China subtitled Their History Arts and Literature (1901) by Francis Brinkley. Physicist and House of Peers member Masatoshi Ōkōchi (1878-1952) was also a noted ceramics researcher, is credited with the first work on Nabeshima ware in Japanese ...