Porcelain production during the Kangxi period (1662–1722) expanded China’s export trade with Europe, sparked the Chinamania craze in the nineteenth century, and bolstered the East-West exchange that ...

The first item, a petite bowl used for cleaning calligraphy brushes, bore the inscription "Great Ching Dynasty, Kangxi year made ... there was still the vase to discuss. Upon being asked what ...