BLUE ET WHITE CHINESE

Acknowledgements                                                                7

Introduction                                                                            8

ORIGINS                                                                             11

The origins of blue and white in the Yuan c-dynasty

PATTERN AND PERCEPTION                                         35

Blue and white porcelain and its perception

DESTINY                                                                             59

Asia, Africa, Syria and Egypt

CHANGE                                                                             79

The decline of the Mongols and the early Ming dynasty

CELADON AND COPPER RED                                     107

Parallel developments in Chinese ceramics

EMPIRES                                                                           127

Portuguese and Spaniards, sultans and shahs

IMITATION AND RIVALRY                                         153

Korea and Japan

SURVIVAL                                                                       168

Shipwrecks, China and the West

COLLECTORS AND EXCAVATORS                            193

Collectors and chinoiserie, excavators and scholars

Notes                                                                                   196

Bibliography                                                                        199

Illustration credits                                                               203

Index                                                                                   204

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