via the Willow pattern, kicked off unprecedented growth in the trade of blue and white porcelain. The images produced by 18th-century engravers in England were inspired by and imitated Chinese ...

Yes, they're blue and white, and yes, they were made in China. But the Freer's objects are pieces of old porcelain, some made in the 17th century. In 1860s London, painter James McNeill Whistler ...

Delft, a term often used to describe blue-and-white motifs, is named for a town in the Netherlands where renditions of the Chinese style were produced en masse. The classic Willow pattern ...

Blue-and-white porcelain and famille rose are two iconic varieties from China, renowned for their exquisite underglaze and intricate overglaze patterns. Interestingly, their origins and evolution ...

The pattern has been adapted on various types of dinnerware, ranging from heavy-duty restaurant dishes to delicate porcelain, tin, plastic and even paper dinnerware. Blue Willow china has graced ...

Wang Lan, a consultant at the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Institute, introduces a 15th-century blue and white porcelain jar, decorated with chrysanthemum patterns, to visitors. JIANG DONG/CHINA DAILY ...

Ming ceramics are renowned for their cobalt blue–and–titanium white porcelain, which was often produced in places like Jingdezhen in southern China, noted Mark Cartwright for World History ...

In fact, there are only about one hundred whole Yuan dynasty blue and white porcelains in all of China, but there are plenty of porcelain fragments. Now, you can see some of these rare beauties ...

But over time Dutch potters began crafting their own precious blue and white ceramics. When porcelain arrived in Europe from China in the 16th Century it caused a sensation. Potters in Jingdezhen ...