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Author Kessler, Adam Theodore, 1958-

Title Song blue and white porcelain on the Silk Road / by Adam T. Kessler
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 587 pages, 72 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps
Series Studies in Asian art and archaeology ; v. 27
Studies in Asian art and archaeology ; v. 27.
Contents Song Blue and White Porcelain on the Silk Road; Copyright; Table of Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Introduction; I. The Ejina River Oasis Finds and the Xi Xia State (1038-1226 AD); I.1. The Ejina River and Its Oasis Region; I.2. Regarding the Heicheng (Khara-khoto) Site Finds; I.3. Concerning the Pre-Ming Blue and White Porcelain Uncovered at Heicheng (Khara-khoto); I.4. The Wide Distribution of Pre-Ming Blue and White Porcelain at Sites Throughout the Ejina River Oasis Region and Its Discovery at Sites North of the Xi Xia Lucheng City-Site
I.5. Our Survey of Heicheng (Khara-khoto) and Sites in Its VicinityI. 6. Interpreting the Significance of Pre-Ming Blue and White at Lucheng, Khara-baishing and Sites Throughout the Ejina River Oasis Region, as well as the Heicheng (Khara-khoto) Site Itself; I.7. Comparisons to Better Appreciate How the Pre-Ming Blue and White Porcelain at the Heicheng (Khara-khoto) Site is not Related to the 13th-14th Century Mongol Occupation-horizon There; I.8. The Mongols' Preference for Gold and Silver; Their Indifference to Porcelain
I.9. The Xi Xia's Profound Political, Economic, and Cultural Relations with Song China Their Admiration of Chinese Ceramics; II. The Jin Dynasty (1115-1234 AD); II. 1. Regarding the Baotou Yanjialiang Site Finds, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region; II. 2. Historical Geography and Verification of the Stratigraphic Deposition at the Yanjialiang Site; II. 3. Numismatic Discoveries in the Baotou Region and the Identity of the Yanjialiang Site; II. 4. Jin/Xi Xia Commercial History; Ascertaining the Chronology of the Yanjialiang Site
II. 5. The Pre-Ming Blue and White Large Plate Uncovered at the Tuoketuo Xian Xibaita City-siteII. 6. The 1165 AD Jin/Southern Song Longxing Peace Agreement; Assessing the Appearance of Pre-Ming Blue and White at the Baotou Yanjialiang Site or the Xibaita City-site in Tuoketuo Xian; II. 7. Regarding the Junzhou-kiln Incense-Burner with a Cyclical Date Inscription from the Baita Village Hoard and the Jin Occupation- Horizon at the Fengzhou City-Site; II. 8. Regarding Jin Occupation-horizon Finds at the Chengbuzi City-site North of Modern-day Siziwang Banner City
II. 9. Evidence of the Ferocity of Genghis Khan's Attack on Cities along the Jin's Northwestern FrontierII. 10. Concerning the Jin Dynasty Jiehao Defense Wall; II. 11. Concerning Discoveries at Village and Ancient City-sites North of the Chengbuzi Site and South of the Jin Jiehao Defense Wall; Contrasting Jin/Onggut Tastes Regarding Chinese Ceramics, 11th-14th Centuries AD; II. 12. Ceramics Hoards in the Chifeng Region; Southwest of Beijing; the Huocheng Xian Hoard in Xinjiang; II. 13. The Beijing Jiugulou Boulevard Hoard
Summary Song Blue and White Porcelain on the Silk Road disproves received opinion that pre-Ming blue and white dates to the Yuan (1279-1368 A.D.) and establishes the proper foundation for 21st century study of ancient Chinese porcelain
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Blue and white ware -- China -- Inner Mongolia
Porcelain, Chinese -- China -- Inner Mongolia -- Song-Yuan dynasties, 960-1368
ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES -- Porcelain & China.
Blue and white ware
Porcelain, Chinese -- Song-Yuan dynasties
China -- Inner Mongolia
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004231276
9004231277