Masterpieces of Chinese Export Porcelain from the Mottahedeh Collection in the Virginia Museum |
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Albert Museum Amsterdam armorial services arms birds blanc-de-Chine blue-and-white porcelain border bowls British camaieu Canton centre ceramic China Chinese export porcelain Chinese porcelain Ching-tê-chên colours copied Cornelis Pronk crest cup and saucer decoration on porcelain delftware designs diameter dish Duc d'Orléans Dutch Dutch East India early East India Company eighteenth century Emperor Ch'ien Lung enamels England engraving Europe and Western European ewer example export porcelain factories faience famille rose famille verte flowers gilt glaze gold green grisaille illustrated Imari influence of Europe Japanese K'ang Hsi known later London Meissen Meissen porcelain merchants Mottahedeh Okeover original Ostend Company painted palette panels pattern peony perhaps period Persian pieces plates popular porcelain trade Portuguese pottery principal styles punch-bowls rose-pink rouge-de-fer scene scrollwork seventeenth century shape ship silver sprays subjects of decoration tea-service teapot tureen underglaze blue Victoria & Albert Western subjects yellow Yung Chêng