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the meiyintang China ceramics, Regina krahl, London, 1994-2010, vol. 2, no. 648.
“THE MEIYINTANG COLLECTION”, sotheby’s Hong Kong, 2011.4.7, NO. 45
THE Chinese Ceramics in THE Baur COLLECTION “, (volume 1) Johnayer, P116, NO. 63.

white porcelain, since THE ancient times is THE most difficult due to its pure fire category of porcelain. Production of white ceramic, require material flawless, perfect process. Because bright and noble will be white surface correct any errors, the tiny doping or firing errors are easy to cause serious damage, so the white porcelain in the history of Chinese porcelain has long been considered a luxury. Beiqi, sui and tang dynasty, porcelain firing temperature increased, enough to make solid white fine porcelain, covered with white glaze, occasional translucent body. In the tang dynasty, smooth white ceramic is highly admired for shaped like a shiny silver, therefore, xing kiln, kiln porcelain model into court with porcelain. In the Ming dynasty, yongle emperor personal preference for white porcelain also extremely, and makes the yongle white porcelain reflected aesthetic level than power is greatly increased. Xu had long zhu di early in Beijing “reason” yuan ouchi, under the influence of Mongolian SuShang white “” countries. Ming emperor taizong: a memoir, “the four year of yongle (1406) in October butyl article not written:” and “teeth into the jade bowl, not, life also does not give money, call history Zheng Ci yue: I used Chinese porcelain, seize the day clean, jade-like stone, very suitable for heart, don’t have to be this also, besides, it” of this library also have.
sweet white porcelain was burning kiln in the beginning, to the yuan dynasty developed on the basis of egg white porcelain. Yuan dynasty egg white glaze opacifying shape, soft and sweet white is white, light perspective, embryo glaze is meat, red or pink, color jade. Glaze is like cotton sugar color, give a person the sense is filled, therefore calls the sweet white. Shanghai silicate research institute, Chinese academy of sciences of yongle sweet white porcelain physical test found that the glaze contains more amount of tiny residual quartz particles and a certain amount of mica debris, and glaze has the feeling of “light jade-like stone jade”. The composition and the white porcelain of yuan dynasty and the white porcelain yongle dynasty after all not the same, it may be said “a generation of belly”. Similar cases in Switzerland meiyintang old Tibet, on April 7, 2011 sotheby’s sold in Hong Kong, 2017 Beijing RongBaoChun again clinchs a deal with RMB 4.6 million yuan. See also Swiss Baur foundation has a slightly smaller size.