Chinese Export Porcelains

The blue and white porcelain objects exported by China in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are an important and usefully fashion‐sensitive category of antique artefacts. This guide provides a comprehensive and copiously illustrated account of Chinese export porcelain which gives both a broad overview and detailed identification for the most common styles and motifs. The focus is on the manufacture dates based on data from armorial decorations, cargoes from dated shipwrecks, and other archaeological excavations.

This book is the first of the Guides to Historical Artifacts, a series of illustrated guides to categories of historical artefacts commonly found...