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Yingqing porcelain,
Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), ht. 29 cm
Gift of Gerald Weisbrod,
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria 87.36
v Aiguiere Porcelaine Yingqing,
Dynastie Yuan (1271-1368)
vi Stemcup
white porcelain with Shufu type glaze,
Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368)
Gift of the Chen King Foh Family,
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria 72.95
vi Coupe � pied
Porcelaine blanche avec couverte de type Shufu, Dynastie Yuan (1271-1368)
painted underglaze blue floral and geometric decorations have been unearthed. These ceramics are believed to have come from the Gongxian kilns in Henan province. The cobalt blue on these wares found at Yangzhou is believed to have been imported from the Near East. During the Tang dynasty, Yangzhou was a port city frequented by Muslim traders.
Excavated Song dynasty blue and white examples-an underglaze blue porcelain bowl dating to about 977 from the Jinsha pagoda in Longquan county and a sherd with an underglaze blue decoration dating to about 1265 from the Huancui pagoda at Shaoxing, both in Zhejiang province-also contribute to the dating dilemma. However, these isolated cases of blue and white wares from the Tang and Song dynasties are so insignificant in number, that at the present time, one might conclude they could have been purely experimental and may not have even influenced or been related to the early chronological progression of the Chinese blue and white porcelain of Jingdezhen, as we know it.
A crude blue and white covered urn found in a tomb at Jiujiang, Jiangxi province, dating to 1319, has also pushed the traditional date for Yuan blue and white back a few years. Blue and white wares must have begun their development early in the first half of the 14th
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