Chinese Ceramics in Asia

As the largest continent, Asian is located in the northeast of the east hemisphere. Most of the Chinese porcelain wares are scattered in East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia and West Asia.

According to various textual records, in the Tang dynasty the Chinese porcelain wares were sold in the Southeast Asian markets through nongovernmental trade. Their exportation had been expanded since the Song period, which is evidenced by the finds in the eastern and western countries in Asia. According to Mikami Jiro, a Japanese scholar of ceramics, the route of maritime trade was named "The Ceramic Route", which shows the traces of Chinese porcelain wares in Asia.

According to the statistics in 1975, a great amount of Chinese porcelain wares were found in nearly 800 sites in Japan. Changsha wares were unearthed in 27 sites, among which are the kettle with brown designs and applique decorations on yellow glaze, underglaze plate with birds designs, the double loop-handled jars and boxes unearthed in Fukuoka City; and the applique decorated jar with butterfly decoration on brown glaze and the pot with appliqued brown dates in Kyoto; and the pot with molded brown dates in Nara. The Tang sancai were found at 11 sites, for example, the pottery pillows in the southern suburb of Kyoto and Hamanagun of Sizeokaken. Others are the flambe Tianmu tea cup from the Southern Song period in the collection of Tokyo Seikado Binko and the plate with designs of birds and flowers from the Ming Jingdezhen in the collection of Tokyo Edemitze Bijutsekan (Tokyo Edemitze Museum). In Thailand the Tang Changsha wares were unearthed at over ten sites, and shards and Changsha bowls with brown and green color decoration in the Malay Peninsula. In 1963, at a construction site in Bangkok were the unearthed blue-and-white bowls with inscriptions of the eras of the Ming dynasty, and the sailboat-shaped green-glazed burial wares. Mr. Wei Weijie from Malacca collects a four-handled celadon bottle with bowl-shaped mouth, a celadon bottle with spittoon-shaped mouth, a celadon incense burner with designs of dragons and phoenixes and with animal-shaped feet, which have not been found at the Song and Yuan kiln sites in China. A large amount of Chinese porcelain wares were unearthed in South Asia and West Asia, such as India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and so on.

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