Chinese Reign Marks Are Nice, But Never Proof Chinese reign marks and understanding them with regards to authenticating ceramics is a complicated topic. As a general rule of thumb, until everything else indicates a particular period of making ignore the marks . Having an appropriate mark is nice, however, they should never be used […]
Chinese Pottery and Porcelain By Hobson Vols I & II
Chinese Pottery and Porcelain By Hobson Vols I & II PORCELAIN CHINESE and POTTERY AN ACCOUNT OF THE POTTER’S ART IN CHINA FROM PRIMITIVE TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY BY L. HOBSON, B.A. Robert Lockhart Hobson (1873-1941) Assistant in the Department of British and Medexvel Antiquities and Ethnography, British Museum. Author of the “Catalogue of […]
The Xu Family of Guangzhou, History, Politics and Art
The Xu Family of Guangzhou, History, Politics and Art Xu Family Qing Porcelain Collection THE EXHIBITION Virtuous Heritage: Xu Family of Guangzhou: Mandarins, Revolutionaries, Educators and Scientists at the University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, is dedicated to the Xu clan, the first family of Guangzhou. Their fortunes were intimately linked to […]
Chinese Northern Song Ru Ware
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 […]