Chinese porcelain and hard stones,

"This edition is limited to one thousand copies, of which this is ... no. three hundred and twenty-five."

Catalogue of the collection of old Chinese porcelains,

Mode of access: Internet.

A collection of rare old Chinese porcelains collected by Sir William Bennett /

Mode of access: Internet.

Chinese ceramics : Illinois State Museum, Springfield, November 13, 1983-January 15, 1984 [exhibition] /

Includes bibliographical references (p. 32).

Wakan taishō Keitokuchin tōroku : ichimei zoku tōsetsu /

Translation of: Ching-te chen tʻao lu.

La céramique chinoise : porcelaine orientale: date de sa découverte, explication des sujets de décor,--les usages divers classification /

Mode of access: Internet.

French furniture : Chinese porcelains & decorative objects : paintings & drawings, tapestries, rugs, old sevres, meissen & Dresden porcelain, silver, linens & laces, china : property from the estate of the late John Vernou Bouvier, New York, by order of the legatees, the present owners : property of the estate of the late Mrs. Elmer E. Smathers, New York, by order of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, administrator : and property of Oscar F. Gavrilovitch, former Consul-General from Yugoslavia in New York and other owners : public auction sale, March 11, 12 and 13 at 2 pm.

"Sale number 944."

Chinese pottery and porcelain : an account of the potter's art in China from primitive times to the present day /

"This edition is limited to 1,500 copies, of which this is no. 1015."

Chinese Street

A frieze-like composition depicting storefronts with mixed English and Chinese language signs, as well as activities of shopkeepers and shoppers.

Origin of Chinese ancient glasses;study on the earliest Chinese ancient glasses

The earliest Chinese ancient glasses before the West Han Dynasty (200 BC) from different regions are studied. The glass samples were unearthed from Hunan, Hubei, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangdong and Xinjiang of China. The chemical composition of these glasses samples is analyzed by proton induced X-ray emission (PIXE) technique, energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) method and inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES). It is shown that the glass chemical compositions belong to barium-lead silicate BaO-PbO-SiO2, potash soda lime silicate K2O (Na2O)-CaO-SiO2 (K2O/Na2O > 1), soda potash lime silicate Na2O (K2O)-CaO-SiO2 (K2O/Na2O < 1) and potash silicate K2O-SiO2 glass systems, respectively. The origins of the earliest Chinese ancient glasses are discussed from the archaeological and historical points of view. These four types of Chinese ancient glasses were all made in Chinese territory using local raw materials. The glass preparation technology was related to the Chinese ancient bronze metallurgy and proto-porcelain glaze technology. The glass technology relationship between the East and the West is analyzed at the same time.

Application of ICP-MS trace element analysis in study of ancient Chinese ceramics

Thirty-nine trace elements of the Song-Yuan period (960-1368 AD) porcelain bodies from Cizhou, Jizhou and Longquanwu kilns were analyzed with ICP-MS, a technique rarely used in Chinese archaeometry, to investigate its potential application in such studies. Trace element compositions clearly reflect the distinctive raw materials and their mineralogy at the three kilns and allow their products to be distinguished. Significant chemical variations are also observed between Yuan and Song-Jing dynasties samples from Cizhou as well as fine and coarse porcelain bodies from Longquanwu. In Cizhou, porcelains of better quality which imitate the famous Ding kiln have trace element features distinctive from ordinary Cizhou products, that indicates geochemically distinctive raw materials were used and which possibly also underwent extra refining prior to use. The distinct trace element features of different kilns and the various types of porcelains from an individual kiln can be interpreted from a geochemical perspective. ICP-MS can provide a large amount of valuable information about ancient Chinese ceramics as it is capable of analyzing >40 elements with a typical of precision < 2%.

Potential of Sr isotopic analysis in ceramic provenance studies: Characterisation of Chinese stonewares

We compare the trace element and Sr isotopic compositions of stoneware bodies made in Yaozhou and Jizhou to characterise these Chinese archaeological ceramics and examine the potential of Sr isotopes in provenance studies. Element concentrations determined by ICP-MS achieve distinct characterisation for Jizhou samples due to their restricted variation, yet had limited success with Yaozhou wares because of their large variability. In contrast, Sr-87/Sr-86 ratios in Yaozhou samples have a very small variation and are all significantly lower than those of Jizhou samples, which show a large variation and cannot be well characterised with Sr isotopes. Geochemical interpretation reveals that Sr-87/Sr-86 ratios will have greater potential to characterise ceramics made of low Rb/Sr materials such as kaolin clay, yet will show larger variations in ceramics made of high Rb/Sr materials such as porcelain stone. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.