Antique Chinese Porcelain Collector's Help and Info Page

Welcome to the antique Chinese porcelain collectors page. This fully searchable web site is the largest research database on Chinese antique porcelain collector's information available anywhere.

A website which A large and friendly community for Chinese and Japanese Porcelain collectors; right now with 34,843 messages in 4,058 pages under 55 topics. To collectors of Asian ceramics this is an indispensable resource that helps you appreciate the pieces you have, help you avoid fakes, and introduces you to friends of similar interest all over the world.You can search it by google.com.

You can also just scroll down this page and start reading. Here and entirely for free you will find more than 1000 Porcelain Marks, A Glossary of Porcelain Terms, Porcelain History, Stories from visits to kiln sites and Questions & Answers. You will also find two different search boxes to help you. On main for the info, marks and glossary sections (top right) and a separate at the Webshop Collection. Just go there, type in what you are looking for and hit 'search'. Enjoy.

Glossary of Chinese Porcelain Terms

Glossary of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain Terms, Decorations and Symbols. More than 520 terms explained and illustrated. The glossary is constantly updated. Click here to go directly to the Glossary.
Quick Email Consultation

If you need a quick answer about any Chinese porcelain question you might have you are welcome to email me personally at this website.

China and Sweden - Porcelain Exhibition in Beijing

During September to December 2005 an exhibition of Chinese pottery and porcelain was held at the Wumen Exhibition Hall, Palace Museum (Gugong) in Beijing. The exhibition focused on 18th century Chinese porcelain exported to the West but highlighted Neolithic pottery and some Imperial wares, from ruyao to Qianlong in Swedish collections.

I hope here can grow into a large and friendly meeting place for Chinese Porcelain Collectors.

If you are the slightest interested in collecting Asian ceramics, this is for you. Please remember that this is for collectors' discussions. No advertising or 'commercial intent' is allowed.

Porcelain Marks and Backstamps

Marks section, with more than 1100 translated and dated Chinese Porcelain Marks. Illustrated, dated and translated.
Click here to go directly to Chinese Marks.

The Manufacture of Porcelain

The history of Chinese porcelain, as described by Tangyin in 1743, in his Twenty Illustrations on the Manufacture of Porcelain.
Historical documents and recent visits, describing how Antique Chinese Porcelain was made.

Q&A Porcelain Info Section

Large Q&A Porcelain Info Section with pictures of Chinese porcelains, popular styles, shapes and decorations.
FAQ Page and the Guest Book

An ever growing list of recommended books on Chinese Pottery and Porcelain.
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Travel reports
Visits to Jingdezhen 1991 and 1992

Only a few yards from this spot at the river banks of the Chang River, flowing through the city of Jingdezhen, the Chinese Imperial kiln was built during the Yuan dynasty. The production grew and continued here during the entire Ming and Qing dynasty. At this very spot the porcelain was loaded onto the same type of small boats as you can see on the picture, to be sent out all over the world, from the 13th century and onwards almost up until today.
For the last 1000 years all kinds of Chinese porcelain shards and kiln debris has been dumped here as the city grew. So much in fact that the city of Jingdezhen are now resting on a thick layer of it, 30 feet deep or more in places. Click here to visit my report from Visits to Jingdezhen 1991 and 1992.

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Antique Chinese Porcelain Questions and Answers
A Beginners Help on Chinese Porcelain collecting
August the Strong - Dragoneer Vase, Ex: Johanneum, Dresden
Authentications:
Singapore
Bargain hunting in China
Black glazed vase - Mirror Black
Blue and white, Chinese "provincial" mid 19th century ware
Blue and white, Chinese "provincial" 16th and late 19th century ware
Blue and white, Chinese early 18th century export charger
Blue and white bowl with copper clad rim
Blue and white Comb's box
Blue and white, Chinese Export porcelain from mid 18th century
Blue and white, Chinese Export Kangxi, Yongzheng or Qianlong copy of Ming - Total fake
Blue and white Kangxi charger, found in rubbish
Blue and white Kangxi bowl with Chenghua mark
Blue and white lidded jars with Kangxi mark, not of the period
Black glazed wares found at the coast of California
Books for beginning a serious study of Chinese Porcelain
Books, The 100 best, on Chinese Porcelain
Bowl with high foot, c. 1900 Food serving tray
Bowl with high foot, c. 1850-75 Food serving tray
Brush pot, Green glazed
Brush pot, Green glazed "Wang Bing Rong"?
Burnt red foot rims on Ming
Burnt red foot rims on Ming copies
Candle holder/Porcelain dog figurine in Rose medallion
Celadon, glaze
Celadon platter supposed to be from the Ming Dynasty
China, Chronology and History
China, Three Gorges
Chinese Export Armorial porcelain
Belfrage, Sweden, 1804
Cedercreutz and Campbell, Sweden, 1750's
Ehrenbill, Sweden, c 1770.
GEB - Carl Gustaf Ekeberg, Sweden, c. 1750-70
Grill, Sweden, 1760's, Jean Eric Rehn, design by
Gyllenborg, Sweden, c. 1755, Count Fredrik Gyllenborg
KJ - Initials within a star
H?kens, von, Daniel Nicholas, Sweden, 1730's
Klinckowström, Leonard, Sweden, c. 1740
John or Christopher Lethieullier, Britain, c. 1725-1730
Nordencrantz, Sweden, 1730's
Pott, England, 1780's
Werngren and Wimnell, Sweden, c. 1765
Wirsén, af, Sweden, c. 1812
Wrangel af Sauss, Sweden, c. 1740
Chinese Export Special Designs porcelain
"The Adoration of the Shepherds", 1740
"Deshima" pattern by van Frytom
"Dutch Folly" Blue and white, export platter
East Indiaman "Grosvenor" porcelain, 1780's
Fort William
Goertz Emergency Coin's bowl, Sweden, 1750's
Judgement of Paris, c. 1750's
Canton and Pearl River down to the Whampoa anchorage panorama
Chinese Export Porcelain patterns
Chinoiserie
Famille Verte
Famille Noire
Famille Jaune
Famille Rose
Imari
Jesuit porcelain
Willow Pattern
Nanking
Canton
Armorial porcelain
FitzHugh
Rose Medallion
Rose Canton
Rose Mandarin
Rice grain
Chinese porcelain making in 1743
Chinese porcelain of the 17th to 20th century
Chinese Porcelain, when was is first made?
Cleaning of seal-marks and tarnished gold
Cleaning old pottery
"Clobbed" Kangxi
"Clobbered" wares
Crackled glaze vase with enamels and brown mark
Crackled glaze jar with enamels and brown mark
Crackled glaze porcelain tea caddy
Crackled lidded jar with enamels
Cups, with two handles
Date 20th century pieces, How to
Dated vase with bird, 1909
Damaged porcelain
Damages and their effect on the value of a piece of antique porcelain
Daoists' meditation Vase
Decoration, Famille Verte and Famille Rose
Decoration, Rose Mandarin
Decoration, Wucai
Doucai "garlic neck" vase with Daoguang mark
Doucai "garlic neck" miniature vase
Dragon and Flower's vase
Dragon decorated lidded dish
Dragons, rare Xianfeng
eBay, Internet auction site for selling and buying antiques
Enamel decorated teapot
"Eight Friends of Zhushan"
Wang Yeting Porcelain plaque c. 1936
Eggs, porcelain, marked "Satsuma" and "China"
Eggshell Porcelain, background
Eggshell porcelain
Eggshell, White bowls with gold rim
Enameled "Rooster" tureen, with unusual mark
Erotica on Chinese Porcelain
Fahua pottery Lamp foot jar
Fakes, writing a book on
Fakes, dealing with
Fake, modern Ming copy sold as "Song?"
Famille Noire Jar
Famille Verte Kangxi / early 18th century bowl shaped dish
Figure from Harbin, China
Figure, Fujian Club You Chang Zi
Figure, Late 19th century God of War
Figure, modern Chinese porcelain
Figures, Chinese porcelain
Fish decorated dish, 1930's, Chinese porcelain
Flower pot or fish basin of the Guangxu (1875-1908) period
Fujian Blue and White Water Flask
"Garniture"
Ginger Jar, Kangxi period
Ginger Jars, Late Qing Dynasty
Ginger Jar, Double Happiness" Wedding Gift, mid 19th century
Ginger Jar, 1860 to early 20th century
Ginger Jar, mid 20th century
Ginger Jar, Chinese Imari 18th century
Ginger Jar, stamped decoration
Gold, what did the color represent?
Granaries
Green glazed figures
Green glazed jar
Green, Han Dynasty (25-220 AD) figure
Guangxu to Early republic blue vases
Hot water plate
Hsien Feng period (1851-62) Chinese porcelain basin
Hua Shan - modern vase
Imari, Antique Chinese or later?
Imari, Punch Bowl
Is what I am buying really old?
Jar, Martaban, South East Asian, Brown glazed
Jar and Dish with red and green decoration
Jar, big, glazed modern
Jars, Archaeology and background of Martaban Jars
Jars, Family Heirloom Jars from Borneo
Jiangxi Min Ci (1940-60) enameled porcelain bowl with export approval seal.
Kangxi looking blue and white porcelain
Kangxi mark in a double circle, on a Hawthorne jar
Kangxi (1662-1722) period dish or a Ming fake?
Kangxi looking, broken vase from old Cathay?
Kangxi plates with raised center Oyster plates
Kangxi Teacup with dish and cover
Kangxi Teacup, maybe fakes
"Kitchen Qing" Straits Chinese Dishes
Kraak fake, recently bought in China
Kraak porcelain Ming Wanli copy
Laughing Buddha
Limited-edition plates by "Zhao Huimin"
Lowestoft, Chinese
Make money on Chinese Porcelain, How to
Makuzu Kozan mark Vase, yellow with ducks
Mao, Chairman, Porcelain of
Marks, 20th century on Chinese Porcelain
Mark, Conch shell
Mark, "Foreign"
Mark, "Made in China"
Mark, genuine Qianlong period
Marks, are all pieces with raised marks fakes?
Marks, valuable Chinese Porcelain without marks
MARKS section, more then 500 illustrated and translated Chinese and Japanese porcelain marks
Martaban type or "Neolithic Period" trade pottery?
Meiping vase with enameled decoration
Ming bowl, Kiln reject or both?
Ming dynasty, Chenghua 1465-87 authentication
Ming dynasty, Chenghua 1465-87 wine cup
Ming dynasty, Yongle 1403-24 period, bowl. Mid 20th century copy
Ming dynasty, Xuande 1426-35 mark, faceted vase
Ming dynasty dish, late 16th century
Ming, fake bowl with underglaze blue and white decoration
Ming, fake jar with clumsy underglaze blue and white decoration
Ming, fake jar with well done underglaze blue and white decoration
Ming porcelain, buying
Ming style enameled jar
Ming style blue and white cup stand
Ming style green glazed vase
Ming tiles, How common are
Mirrored / symmetrical pairs
Modern high quality enameled vase
Modern high quality enameled vase with artist's seal
modern good quality replica red Feng bowl
Moulding copies
"Mudmen" from the Shiwan potteries at Foshan
Monochrome, excellent, red, late Qing dynasty bowl
Monochrome, red "Sang-de-bouef" Vase
North Chinese Provincial ware Cizhou style underglaze blue
North Chinese Provincial ware Yaotou ware
Oil lamp, brown glazed
Over-the-wall (Guoshi) decorated dish
"Ox-blood" or "Langyao hong" Copper-red vase, late Qing dynasty
Phoenix and dragon decorated enameled vase
Paste, how can one determine its quality?
Pigments used in the glazes
Pillow, blue and white head or hand rest
Pottery figure, Ming lead glazed roof tile
Printed decoration
Qingbai glazed vase, yuan dynasty
Red, square, rubber stamped Qianlong mark
Red Rooster plate Wa Lee factory, Hong Kong
Repair cracks using pure gold
Rose Medallion, candlestick
Rose Medallion, decorated in Macao
Rose Medallion, decorated in Hong Kong
Rose Medallion, landscape panels
Rose Mandarin, early 20th century, Red Mansion decoration?
"Salts" and their use
Samson copies of Chinese Porselain
Seasons Cup, Ge glaze, late 19th century
Selling Ming porcelain found in South East Asia
Simon Ng: Some pictures from the Shiwan kiln outside Canton
Song dynasty, Temmoku
Song pottery, authentication
Spoons
Straits type late 19th century SEA enameled export porcelain
Tang dynasty marbled ware
Tang pottery - Authentication without TL-test
Authentication without TL-test, a non conclusive experiment
Tea ceremony bowl, Late Transitional/Kangxi period tea , ca 1680
Teacup with lid from Jiangxi Porcelain company
Teacup with saucer, Kangxi eggshell
Teapot, Blue and White
Teapot, Rose Medallion
Transitional looking Meiping vase
Tureen and Wine pot, Question of age
Underglaze red manganese decorated vase
Vase, blue and white Kangxi copy
Vase, blue and white vase with Qianlong mark
Vase, blue-and-white pheasant
Vase, enamels and a Chenghua mark in brown
Vase, enameled decoration of flowers and Chinese characters
Vase, enameled decoration of ladies and poem
Vase, Fu-dog decoration in underglaze blue and white
Vase, high quality enamels from late 1950's
Vase, rose pink ground
VOC marked blue and white porcelain
Wash basin from late 19th century
White porcelain, Fujian Dehua "Blanc-de-Chine" sacrificial cup
White porcelain, figure and bowl
White porcelain, Song/Yuan
White porcelain, with hidden decoration
White porcelain, wedding cups with hidden decoration
Worcester, First Period, with Chinese design
Wucai jars, Possibly Kangxi period
Wufu - five bats - decoration
Wufu - five bats - underglaze red decoration
Wreck finds, Kangxi in Florida
Yuan/Early Ming style pear shaped vase
Quality, What distinguishes a desirable Neolithic or Han piece from a run-of-the-mill one?
Xuantong (1909-1912) period vase, dated 1909
Xuantong (1909-1912) period bowl, dated 1911
Yixing City Fruit Skin Bins
Yuan dynasty blue and white

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Sundry
Chess and the Compass
China - Topography - Map - Land and people
Chinese invented "arabic" number system
Determinating age from the foot rim
East Liverpool Potteries, Ohio, USA
Feng Shui - The Chinese View of the Living Earth
Four Signs of a Scholar - Lute
Free storage of pictures
Gambling chips
Glass vase with seal mark
Investing in Chinese Porcelain
Japanese Tea Ceremony
Mandate of Heaven
Money, paying through Internet
Mountain, Sacred of China
Repairs and Blacklights
Researching antiques on the Internet
TL-test
Trigrams, the eight
Views on Cleaning porcelain
When is a copy a fake?

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