expanded China’s export trade with Europe, sparked the Chinamania craze in the nineteenth century, and bolstered the East-West exchange that endures to this day. Vase, one of a pair with F1992.13.1 ...

Thanks to the long Chinese habit of writing on objects, we know exactly who made the two blue-and-white porcelain vases in this programme, which gods they were offered to, and indeed the very day ...