Broken porcelain pieces suggest early East-West trade route

Broken bits of porcelain scattered on a beach may seem like just part of the scenery, but for Takenori Nogami, each piece may hold a story about age-old mysterious trading routes connecting East and ...
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Collectors can catch a deal on early Japanese porcelain

From the November 2025 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. In 1656, the Dutch East India Company – since 1639 the only Europeans allowed to trade with Japan – ordered from its contacts in ...
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Japan Folk Crafts Museum: What Soetsu Yanagi saw in Korean pottery

At the Japan Folk Crafts Museum in Tokyo, I kept recognizing things I did not expect to find there. Among rows of pottery, ...
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Silk, porcelain and lacquer : China and Japan and their trade with western Europe and the New World, 1500-1644 / Teresa Canepa

Focusing on the prolific trade, transport and consumption of Chinese silk and porcelain, and Japanese lacquer abroad between 1500 and 1644, this groundbreaking book will show how the material cultures ...
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Chinese and Japanese porcelain for the Dutch Golden Age / Jan van Campen and Titus Eliëns (eds.)

From the collections of Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Groningen Museum, Keramiekmuseum Princessehof Leeuwarden. "NUR 655"--Page 280. The Dutch Golden Age: growth, innovation and ...