Author: The Museum of Oriental Ceramics - Osaka
Title: The Flower of Jade green - Longquan Celadon of the Ming Dynasty. Recent Archaeological findings of the Dayao Fengdongyan Kiln Site.
Description: Osaka. The Museum of Oriental Ceramics. 2011. First edition. Octavo. Softcover. New. New. 160 Pages, Illustrated throughout in colour. Japanese text with English captions. Longquan celadon, produced at kilns in Lishui Prefecture in China's Zhejiang Province, has a history going back more than 1,600 years. Large quantities have long been exported across Asia, and it has been popular in Japan since it was introduced during the Kamakura Period (1192-1333). In 2006, a large-scale excavation at Longquan kilns uncovered fragments of celadon in a rare jade-green color. The findings indicated that those particular kilns once produced celadon ware for the Chinese court of the early Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) ??” a discovery that challenged the popular belief that Longquan kilns were reducing their production around that time.

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