Made exclusively for the Northern Song court, Ru Kiln porcelain wares are by far the most celebrated of Chinese ceramics, ...

The vessel has a diameter of 13 centimeters, with a glossy blue glaze and dense ice crackle ... is engraved with an inscription of 133 Chinese characters in 13 rows telling about the life and ...

The body of Chinese blue-and-white porcelain is made from a ... to fuse kaolin clay and china stone with a translucent alkaline glaze into forming a crystallized hard porcelain body.