Gotheborg Information

Large Q&A Porcelain Info Section with pictures of Chinese and Japanese porcelains, popular styles, shapes and decorations. Please see Ask a Question on how to summit your own questions. For collectors with a wide interest in learning and discussing Chinese and Japanese ceramics, please welcome to join our Discussion Board. An ever growing list of recommended books on antique Japanese and Chinese Pottery and Porcelain. There are many good books out there. This section will just show a few recent and a few classic books that in my view deserve a place in any collector's library. During September to December 2005 a Swedish sponsored exhibition of Chinese pottery and porcelain was held at the Wumen Exhibition Hall in the Forbidden City (Old Palace - Gugong - Museum) in Beijing. The exhibition highlighted the long history of peaceful relations and cultural exchange between Sweden and China, from J G Anderssons discovering the Chinas Neolithic past to The East Indiaman Gotheborg ship excavation, rebuilding and new China voyage. The exhibition focus on fairly ordinary 18th century Chinese porcelain exported to the West but also highlight Neolithic pottery and some Imperial wares, from a rare example of Ru ware in the Röhss Museum Collection to Chinese Armorial porcelain and special porcelain made to order of the Swedish East India Company. Welcome to browse the on-line version of the catalog here. A study expedition to Jingdezhen with Professor Bo Gyllensvrd, in 1992 Only a few yards from this spot at the river banks of the Chang River, flowing through the city of Jingdezhen, the Chinese Imperial kiln was built during the Yuan dynasty. During 700 years this factory produced the best porcelain in the world and became the porcelain factory of the entire world well into the 18th century. During the centuries all kinds of Chinese porcelain shards and kiln debris has been dumped and discarded as the city grew. So much in fact that the city of Jingdezhen are now said to rest on a thick layer of porcelan shards, 30 feet ...