The exhibition Red and Blue and White: Yuan and Early Ming Dynasty Ceramics from the Jinglexuan Collection is on display at the University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) of the University of Hong Kong. Featuring 43 early blue-and-white and underglaze-red ceramics, the exhibition documents their success in both Chinese and overseas markets.
The exquisite and elegant patterns on the surface of these blue-and-white and underglaze-red ceramics exemplify the technological advances in glaze materials and firing techniques, while their designs represent symbols long celebrated in Chinese culture. Vases, bowls and other products exported to the Middle East not only depict stylistic features from China, but portray distinctive characteristics from Islamic wares.
Curated by Dr. Florian Knothe, director of UMAG, this selection of ceramics illustrates the development of ceramic forms and decorative art that characterize Yuan and early Ming dynasties ceramics, and prefaces the origins of the museum’s own collection of porcelains from later Ming and Qing dynasties.
Source: The Paper (abridged)
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