The Rarest of all Chinese Porcelains Chinese Northern Song Ru Ware RU WARE IS the most celebrated of Northern Song (960-1127) ceramics. These utensils were made exclusively for the court and were ranked among the Ding, Jun, Guan and Ge as the ‘five classic wares’ of the Song dynasty (960-1279). They began to be collected […]
Chinese Shipwreck From Kangxi Period, Bowl Reef
Chinese Shipwreck Yields Treasure Trove of Kangxi Porcelains Off the coast of mainland China in Pingtan County, Fujian their is an area frequented by fishermen known as Bowl Reef or Wan Jiao, as they fairly often would haul up old Chinese porcelain bowls in their nets thus earning the name. .. View Larger Map Detail, Kangxi […]