Vintage Japanese Fine China Vase With Pastel Florals – Marbled Pearlized Glaze - Etsy

……… The Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL, UK. This incredible museum in South Kensington has one of the greatest collections of ceramics in the world. This little video shows a fraction of the collection of Chinese porcelain and pottery in the museum. If you look carefully, you might just see two Turkish dishes. The Chinese porcelain and pottery shown here includes Song ceramics, Ming porcelain and pottery, Chinese export porcelain, blue and white porcelain and much more.

www.orientalceramics.com An unusual Kangxi Porcelain beaker and saucer c.1700-1720 decorated in Holland or possibly England, c.1710-1730. This finely potted Kangxi porcelain beaker and saucer was probably intended for hot chocolate and is very thinly potted as well as very translucent. The only Chinese part of the decoration is the under-glaze blue diaper pattern and the mark to the base. The Dutch (or possibly English) over decoration is in over-glaze iron-red and gilding in the Baroque style w