While ancient Chinese porcelain has been found in Israel before, this is the first discovery featuring actual Chinese ...

For many centuries China held the secret to making the world's finest porcelain—white ... read "made during the Xuande era of the great Ming Dynasty." A commercial potter would make a mark ...

Ming Dynasty porcelain showed a visible improvement in using glaze, patterning and the shape of the wares. Jingdezhen became the center of China's porcelain making industry. On the basis of white ...

It was drunk out of very beautiful, extraordinarily exquisite tea bowls made from porcelain ... brought back to China by the Jesuits in the 16th and 17th centuries. The Ming Dynasty, which ...

After pottery specialist Dr. Anna de Vincen confirmed the inscription to be Chinese, Hebrew University in Jerusalem’s ...

Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, established his capital in Nanjing (Chinese for southern capital). He ate mostly food cooked with the flavors of South China during his ...

It is surrounded by the Gaoling Mountain range, which is rich in the kaolin clay deposits needed for the finest porcelain. According to China’s ... of an imperial Ming Dynasty kiln.

Narrator: The Qing dynasty was the last imperial dynasty in China. It began in 1644 when the Manchu people from the North overthrew the ruling Ming dynasty and established their capital in Beijing.