How did " Fine china ware " become a symbol of China?
A. How did " Fine china ware " become a symbol of China?
B. Through the Silk Road, Chinese porcelain found its way to Central and West Asia, and was loved by the royalties of the Ottoman Empire; it was the symbol of fashion and luxury for their times.
C. The principal port of China at the time was Quanzhou, a gathering place for wealthy Muslim merchants. They purchased Qinghua porcelain in mass quantities and resold them to Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Italy, Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania and other countries.
D. It was further confirmed that from the 13th to mid-15th century, there were merchants, monks and missionaries from Persia, Syria and other places, who traversed the land and sea Silk Routes and brought to China all kinds of trade goods, handicrafts, spices and cobalt blue, a coloring produced in Islamic nations. In return, they brought back to their own countries Qinghua porcelain as well as other Chinese handicraft goods.
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The Qingbai, or blue and white, porcelain of the Song Dynasty was only added artistic treatment to the original color of the porcelain. However, with paintings and illustrations as the foremost decorative method, the Qinghua required a manual painting technique never before used in Jingdezhen.
It also started with Qinghua porcelain in the Yuan Dynasty, as porcelain ware with colored decorations began to be replaced by single-colored Chinese porcelain.
However, due to the rather poor quality of the raw material used for the body and glaze in the Middle East, and with a lower maturing temperature, it was never able achieve the quality of Chinese Qinghua porcelain.
Topkapi Palace in Turkey houses 13,508 pieces of Chinese porcelain, 40 of which are Qinghua. It is considered the largest and finest collection of Yuan Dynasty Qinghua anywhere in the world.