Week 6 Readings

5. Video Appreciation 1: Porcelain Dehua

During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the demand for Dehua porcelain was very large and continuously exported. In Europe and the United States, Dehua porcelain enjoys the honor of Chinese white and is the pearl of oriental art. From the royal aristocracy to the common people, it is keen to collect, and it has also had a great impact on the development of porcelain technology in Europe and the United States. In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Buddhist culture enriched the performance content of ceramics and promoted the development of ceramic culture. After the 16th century, it gradually depressed due to the Qing Dynasty's policy of seclusion.