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  • Highlights
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  • 1 Ming Export Ceramics
  • 2 East India Companies
  • 3 Special Orders
  • 4 Special Orders: Armorial Porcelain
  • 5 Early European Porcelain
  • 6 Chinese Design in the European Tradition
  • 7 European Designs Copied in China
  • 8 Chinoiserie
  • 9 Chinese Porcelain Mounted or Eenamelled in Europe
  • 10 Collecting
  • Cup with kinrande decoration and German gilded silver mounts

  • Ewer with Portuguese coat of arms and silver mounts

  • ‘Kraak’ –type bowl with armorial designs and inscriptions

  • Dish painted in kraak style

  • Commemorative tankard

  • Punchbowl showing the foreign trading stations

  • Dish with ‘The Doctors’ scene by Cornelis Pronk

  • Oil and vinegar cruet with European silver mounts

  • Serving dish with the ‘Immersion of Achilles’

  • Dish with Don Quixote and Sancho Panza

  • Two figures of Europeans wearing French dress

  • Punchbowl satirising John Wilkes, an English politician

  • Pattern plate with mark of Syngchong

  • Blue-and-white serving platter with an English coat of arm

  • Serving dish with a Scottish coat of arms

  • Masonic teapot with royal coat of arms of England

  • Dish with the arms of King Frederick II of Prussia

  • Dish of ‘Medici porcelain’

  • Mug with Imari pattern

  • Dish with monsters and tables supporting ‘One Hundred Antiquities’

  • Dish with woman and children in an interior

  • Coffee pot and cover with Chinese figures

  • Mug with figures in Chinese style

  • Blue-and-white bowl from a shipwreck

  • Tea canister with landscape design

  • Figure of Lu Dongbin

  • Coffee pot with pierced outer wall

  • Vase with flambé (high-temperature) glaze

  • Ewer with classical figure

  • Toby jug

  • Tureen in the form of a goose

  • Vase with Chinese ladies

  • Sweetmeat stand with seated man

  • Kraak ewer with English silver mounts

  • Dish with decoration painted by Jefferyes Hamett O’Neale

  • Ru stoneware wine bottle with celadon glaze

  • Cizhou-type stoneware pillow with inscription

  • Octagonal jar with Iranian brass mounts

  • Meiping vase with narrative scenes

  • Kendi with lotus design painted in underglaze copper red

  • Stoneware architectural fitting with fahua glazes

  • Vase with scenes from Xi Xiang Ji

  • Pair of candlesticks with dated inscriptions

  • Vase with revolving inner cylinder and pierced outer wall

  • Vase painted with scenes of immortals

The exhibition jointly organized by: National Museum of China The British Museum Victoria and Albert Museum
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