The envy of potters and collectors in Europe and the Middle East, Chinese blue-and-white porcelain owed ... is an example of porcelain produced for export. NOVA: Can you explain the differences ...

Porcelain production during the Kangxi period (1662–1722) expanded China’s export trade with Europe, sparked the Chinamania craze in the nineteenth century, and bolstered the East-West exchange that ...

Thanks to the long Chinese habit of writing on objects, we know exactly who made the two blue-and-white porcelain vases in this programme ... with its defining export. The savagery of the Mongol ...