This particular art category produced mainly in Canton artisan workshops and the kilns of Jingdezhen remains an enigma to many people. Commerce spawned this art, which can be considered a form of dialogue between two aesthetic systems.
Despite its continuing popularity, Chinese export art remains a paradox to many people. Produced from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, largely in the artisan workshops of Canton (now Guangzhou) and in the kilns of Jingdezhen, it tends to evoke two ...