Blue and white ceramics have a long history. The tradition can trace its roots back thousands of years, to parts of Asia and Iraq, and has since been adapted in countless different contexts. Nowadays, ...

A blue and white dish produced in 17th century Persia depicts diving waterfowl amid plants and flowers. It is an example of "fritware," a type of pottery made from powdered glass.

'Blue and white in ceramics has an incredibly long history – so much so that I wonder if it’s somehow hard-wired into our aesthetic preferences,' explains Sue Ure, designer and ceramicist at ...

‘New Blue and White” at the Museum of Fine Arts is not your grandmother’s china cabinet. The contemporary art exhibit riffing on blue and white ceramics flouts the familiar forms and ...

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 ...

Archaeological classification of ceramics is an outgrowth of the study of material from 17th and 18th century sites and as such they reflect the classification system in use during those centuries. By ...

Persia and China : Safavid blue and white ceramics in the Victoria & Albert Museum 1501-1738 / Yolande Crowe Smithsonian Libraries and Archives Object Details Author Victoria and Albert Museum Crowe, ...

She said she’s open to any explanation – the public can view the ceramics, clothing and woodblock prints “Japan in Blue and White” until March 6, 2011, and come up with their own theories.

A ceramics piece spotted amid a plethora of pottery in an Oxfordshire farmhouse has been identified as a centuries-old Chinese treasure. The important object was hiding among a mixture of blue and ...