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1368–1644 CEIn-depth study

Court-commissioned Jingdezhen storage jar, Xuande reign (1426–1435), with a cobalt-blue dragon beneath transparent glaze.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 37.191.1 · Gift of Robert E. Tod, 1937 · Public domain / CC0 · Resized and converted to WebP · Licence terms

Asia / Trade

Ming China: porcelain, court demand and archaeology

Jingdezhen porcelain links specialist production and imperial consumption to international exchange—and to excavations that revise the familiar chronology.

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