Chinese Export Ceramics

This beautiful book tells the story of Chinese ceramics exported to Europe, the Middle East and South-east Asia through the V&A's extensive and celebrated collection. Chinese Export Ceramics illustrates the extraordinary range of styles and decorative patterns of Chinese export porcelain, the integration of European and Middle-eastern shapes and designs, and the circulation and uses of exported objects in Europe, the Middle East and South-east Asia. Superb new photography reveals over 200 stunning pieces, dating from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries. This new book will appeal to both the academic and general reader.

 

Rose Kerr was Former Keeper of the Far Eastern Department at the V&A. Luisa E. Mengoni is a Curator and Ming Wilson is a Senior Curator in the Asian Department at the V&A.