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A

• Aka-e (Jp.)
• Alchemy
• Alkali
• Amsterdams Bont
• Anhua
• Andersson, Johan Gunnar (1874-1960)
• Animal Figure Symbols
• Angkor ceramics
• Annamese
• Apple green (glaze)
• Appraisal
• Archaeo-magnetic dating
• Ardebil Shrine
• Arita
• Arita ware
• Armorial porcelain
• Asbolite
• Attendant
• Attribute
• Aubergine
• Augsburg Art Cabinet, The
• August the Strong
• Auspicious
• Ayutthaya
• Ax

B

• Baba-nonya
• Badama
• Bada Shanren (1626-1705)
• Badges of Rank
• Baidunzi
• Ball
• Baluster
• Bamboo
• Banana
• Banko ware
• Banliang coins
• Bapo
• Baroque style
• Base
• Basket of flowers
• Bat
• Batavi
• Batavia
• Batavia brown
• Baxian
• Beaker
• Bee
• Belt toggles, Chinese
• Bencharong
• Benten
• Bento
• Betel
• Bi (Pi) disk
• Bianco-sopra-bianco
• Bird
• Birthday plate
• Biscuit
• Bi Xie
• Bizen potteries (Jp.)
• Blanc-de-chine
• Bleu de Hue
• Blue-and-white
• Boar
• Bodhisattva
• Body
• Bok choi/Pak choi (White cabbage)
• Bone ash
• Bone china
• Boshanlu Censer
• Böttger, J.F.
• Böttger luster
• Bottle, square porcelain
• Bourdalou
• Bow Porcelain Factory (1744-76)
• Boy (Children)
• Brandes, Jan (1743-1808)
• Brass
• Break
• Bredenhof VOC Ship, 1753
• Brinjal
• Bronze
• Bronze mirror
• Brown dressed rims
• Brown spotstiexiuban
• Brush Pot
• Brush washer, small (Shui Yu)
• Brussels Pottery and Porcelain Factory
• Budai (Po-tai)
• Buddha
• Buddha's hand citron
• Buddhism
• Buddhist Temple Lions
• Burial pottery
• Bushell, Stephen (1844 – 1908)
• Butsudan (Jp.) family altar
• Butterflies, Hundred
• Butterfly

C

• Calender
• Cabaret
• Cabbage
• Cache-pot
• Cach pattern
• Caddy, Tea-
• Cadogan
• Camcheng
• Camaieu
• Camaïeu bleu
• Camellia sinensis, the tea plant
• Camellia leaf monochrome glaze
• Candlestick, Chinese
• Canopy (Gai)
• Canton enamel
• Canton porcelain
• Carp
• Carrack
• Cartouche
• Castiglione, Giuseppe (1688-1766)
• Caudle Cup
• Caughley
• Cavetto
• Celadon
• Censer
• Ceramics
• Ceramic Chemistry
• Chaire (Jp.)
• Chaliang
• Chambers, Sir William (1723-96)
• Chamberstick
• Champleve
• Changsha (kilns)
• Charger
• Chatter marks
• Chawan (Jp.)
• Chayemo
• Chen Guozhi (ca. 1800-1860)
• Cheng Yiting (1885-1948)
• Chenghua (1465-1487) porcelain
• Chess, Chinese weiqi
• Chicken cup
• Chicken skin
• Children, Hundred
• China
• China burners ceramic repair
• Chine de Commande
• Chinese dynasty
• Chinese porcelain
• Chinoiserie
• Chip
• Chocolate pot
• Chrysanthemum
• Chrysanthemum dishes
• Chupu
• Cicada
• Cincinnati, Order of the
• Cinnabar
• Cizhou ware
• Clay
• Clay matrix
• Clay temper
• Clair-de-lune glaze
• Clobbered, Clobber ware
• Cloisonné
• Cobalt
• Cock
• Coiling
• Colander
• Collectible
• Colloid
• Colors, symbolic values
• Composition, asymmetric in Asian Art
• Condition reports and descriptions
• Coombs, China burner
• Coralene
• Concentric
• Conch shell
• Cong
• Congee bowl
• Copper-red glazes
• Crack
• Crackle
• Crane
• Crazing
• Creme cups
• Crest
• Cricket
• Cross-section
• Crow
• "Cuckoo in the house" pattern
• Cultural Revolution
• Cuspidor
• Cyclical Dates

D

• Daoism (Taoism)
• Dayazhai motif
• Decalcomania
• Deer
• Deer, Hundred
• Dehua kilns
• Delft
• Details, for authentications
• Deutsche blumen
• Devil's work
• Diaper pattern
• Ding (Ting) ware
• Dog
• Dong Qichang (1555-1636)
• Donkey
• Double happiness
• Double gourd
• Doucai
• Dragon (Long)
• Dragon and Phoenix (Long Feng)
• Dragon boat
• Dragonware
• Du Halde
• Du Paquier
• Duck
• Duff, Govenor, and his wife
• Dunzhi
• Dynasties, of China

E

• Earthenware
• East India Company
• East Indiaman  NEW
• Edo period (Japan)
• 'Egg and Spinach'
• Eggshell porcelain
• Eight Buddhist Symbols
• Eight Daoist Emblems
• Eight Daoist Immortals
• Eight Friends of Zhushan
• Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup
• Eight Horses of Wang Mu
• Eight Natural Phenomena
• Eight Precious Things
• Eight Trigrams
• Enamel decoration
• Enamels
• Encre de Chine
• Endless knot
• D'Entrecolles, Pére Francois Xavier
• Équelle
• Eumorfopoulos, G.A. (1863-1939)
• Export porcelain
• Extant
• Eyes

F

• Fahua
• Faience
• Fake
• Falangcai
• Famille jaune
• Famille noire
• Famille rose
• Famille verte
• Fan
• Fat Lady
• Faux (imitating) materials
• Fencai
• Feng bird (phoenix)
• Festoon
• Fete champetre (Fr.)
• Figures, decapitated
• Fire support marks
• Firing in reducing atmosphere
• Firing in oxidizing atmosphere
• Fish
• FitzHugh
• Five
• Five Sages Yin Yang
• Five Blessings
• Five Dynasties
• Five Elements
• Five Poisonous Creatures
• Five Relations(Wu lun)
• Flag of China
• Flambé glazes
• Flatware
• Floating world (Jp.)
• Flower Friends Theme
• Flowers of the month, Seasonal
• Fluted
• Foliated
• Foo (Fu) dogs
• Foot, ring
• Forbidden city
• Fostat
• Four Elements
• Four Masters of the Yuan Dynasty
• Four Modernizations
• Four Noble Plants
• Four Scholarly Accomplishments
• Four Treasures, The Scholars
• Fresh red glaze
• Fritting
• Fu
• Fujian blue and white
• Fu, Lu, Shou
• Fukagawa
• Fushao

G

• Gadroon
• Gaiwan, Chinese tea cup
• Gama (Jp.)
• Garden rock
• Garniture set
• Ge
• Geisha girl
• Gilding
• Giles, James
• Glass, Chinese (Peking Glass)
• Glaze
• Gold repair
• God of Longevity
• Gongbi zhongcai
• Gosu blue (Jp.)
• Grafting faking technique, jie-di
• Graviata
• Grisaille
• Guan
• Guandi God of War
• Guangdong
• Guanyin
• Guinomi and Sakazuki sake cups (Jp.)
• Guozhi
• Guqin
• Guyuexuan
• Gypsum

H

• Hair bun
• Halberd 'ji'
• Halo effect
• Han dynasty
• Hannya mask (Jp.)
• Happiness, Double
• Happinesses, Hundred
• Hare
• Hart, Sir Robert
• Hasegawa, Keiko (b.1941)
• Hatching, cross-hatching
• Hatstand
• Hausmalerei
• Headgear
• "Heaped and piled"
• Heavenly Horse
• Heron
• Heroes, Table of PeerlessWu Shuang Pu
• High fired
• Hirado
• Hoi an Hoard, shipwreck cargo
• Hollow line
• Homophonic motifs
• Hong Kong
• Horse
• Höchst Porcelain Factory
• Hu (Storage jar)
• Huang Gongwang
• Huanghuali
• Huashi 'slippery stone' NEW
• Hundred Antiques
• Hundred Pleasures
• Hundred Treasures

I

• Igezara (Jp.)
• IHS
• Imari, Japanese
• Imari, Chinese
• Imperial designs, Ming and Qing
• Imperial workshops in Beijing
• Incised
• Ink painting
• Interregnum (1436-1464)
• Int. Exhb. of Chinese Art 1935-36
• Iridescence
• Iron rust monochrome glaze
• Islamic Art

J

• Jade
• Jade dog figure
• Jade Emperor
• Jade Hall(Yu Tang)
• Jadeite
• Japanese celadon
• Japanese chronology
• Japanese Gods and Goddesses
• Japanese porcelain - yaki
• Jesuits
• Jian yao
• Jigger and Jolly
• Jihong
• Jilan
• Jin dynasty
• Jin Pinqing
• Jingdezhen
• Johan Gunnar Andersson (1874-1960)
• Johanneum marks
• "Joss"
• "Journey to the West"
• Ju (Ru) ware
• Judgement of Paris (decoration)
• Jun glaze
• Ju Ren Tang

K

• Kaga ware
• Kaishu script
  
• Kakiemon
• Kannon
• Kangxi revival
• Kaolin
• Karako (Jp.)
• Karako ware (Jp.)
• Karakusa (Jp.)
• Karatsu ware (Jp.)
• Karlbeck (1879-1967), Orvar
• Kendi
• Kendi Maling
• Kensui (Jp.)
• Kenzan, Ogata (1663-1743) (Jp.)
• Kiln
• Kiln, porcelain firing
• Kiln implements and furniture
• Kinrande (Jp.)
• Kitchen Qing
• Klapmuts
• Ko-Imari(Jp.)
• Ko-sometsuke(Jp.)
• Korea
• Koro (Jp.)
• Kowtow
• "Kraak" porcelain
• Kui dragon
• Kundika
• Kutani ware (Jp.)
• Kwangtung ware
• Kyo-yaki (Jp.)

L

• Lacquer
• Laque burgauté
• Lai Thieu Ceramics (Vietnam)
• Landscape Painting in Chinese Art
• Langkiln
• Lang Tingji (1663–1715)
• Lang yao hong Copper red
  
• Lang Shining
• Lantern festival
• Laub und Bandelwerk
• Laughing Buddha
• Lavender blue monochrome glaze
• Leach, Bernard (b.1887)
  
• LeadGlaze
• Leather hard
• Leiwen
• Lena junk c. 1490
• Liao (916-1125)
• Li Bai (701–762)
• Liling kiln
• Lime
• Linru kiln
• Ling long porcelain
• Lingzhi
• Lion
• Lip
• Literati
• Lithophane
• Liuli tiles
• Lobe
• Long Eliza
• Long Men (Dragon’s Gate) jumping
• Longquan wares
• Lotus
• Lowestoft
• Low fired glazes
• Lozenge
• Luanbai glaze
• Lug handles
• Luohan
• Lustre
• Lustre ware
• Luting

M

• Magnolia
• Magpie
• Magu, Goddess
• Maiolica
• Majiayao Culture
• Manchu
• Mandarins
• Mandarin ducks
• Mandarin China
• Mandate of Heaven
• Mandorla
• Manila (fibers)
• Manila Galleon Trade (1565–1815)
• Moutai or Maotai
• Marbled ware
• Mark and Period
• Marriage
• Marseille
• Martaban
• Marquetry (Wood decoration)
• Master of Rocks
• Matriarch
• Mazarine blue
• Mc Kinley Tariff Act (1890)
• Meander
• Medici porcelain
• Medicine, Chinese
• Merian, Maria Sibylla (1647-1717)
• Meiji period (Jp.)
• Meiping
• Meissen KPM
• Metal clad rims
• Mid-autumn festival
• Mille Fleur
• Minton, Thomas ( -1836)
• Ming dynasty
• Mingqi
• Mino ware (Jp.)
• Minyao
• Mirror black monochrome glaze
• Mirror, bronze
• Mirror-image decorations
• Mizusashi (Jp.)
• Momoyama Period (Jp.)
• Mon (Jp.)
• Mongol
• Monk's-cap ewer
• Monochrome
• Monochromic decorations
• Month cups
• Moon Festival
• Morgan Vase 1886
• Moriage
• Mottahedeh
• Mountains, sacred
• Mudmen
• Mudra
• Mulan (Fa Mu Lan)
• Mustard Seed Garden

N

• Nabeshima ware (Jp.)
• Nanking
• Nara period (Jp.)
• Natsume tea caddy (Jp.)
• Neoclassicism
• Nephrite
• Nianhao
• Netsuke (Jp.)
• Nieuhof
• Nippon (Jp.)
• Noritake (Jp.)
• Northern and Southern Dynasties
• Nose drinking cups
• Noshi (Jp.)
• Nonya (Nyonya) ware
• Numbers

O

• Occupied Japan
• Oil lamp
• On fakes
• Opium
• Orchid
• Ornament
• Orange peel
• Oriole
• Osmanthus flower
• Ouroboros
• Owl
• Ox
• Ox blood
• Oxidation firing

P

• Pagoda
• Painted or printed decorations
• Painting, Chinese
• Painting styles
• Painting terms
• Painting themes
• Painting types
• Paktong
• Pak choi/Bok choi (White cabbage)
• Palace bowls
• Palace 'Peking' bowls
• Paneling, shapes and borders in porcelain
• Papier des Indes (Fr.)
• Paring
• Paste
• Pâte-sur-pâte
• Patty pan
• Peach
• Peach-bloom glaze
  
• Peerless Heroes, Table ofWu Shuang Pu
• Pei hok ("Skin and shell")
• Penglai Islands
• Peony
• Peranakan
• Pere d'Entrecolles
• Petuntse
• Pheasant
• Phoenix
• Picture Archive (under work)
• Piecrust rim -Igezara (Jp.)
• Pig
• Pine
• Pinyin romanization system
• Pipa
• Plants and Fruits
• Plate
• Plum blossom
• Poirier, Simon-Philippe (1720-1785)
• Polychrome
• Pomegranate
• Porcelain
• Porcelain clay
• Porcelain pagoda
• Porcelain paste
• Posset Pot
• Potiche
• Pottery parts and shapes
• Powder blue
• Precious things
• Printed or painted decorations
• Prima facie (Lat.)
• Proto-porcelain
• Provenance
• Prunus
• Pronk
• Puce
• Puyi (1906-1976)

Q

• Qi
• Qianjiang (pale umber) style
• Qilin (Unicorn)
• Qilung
• Qin
• Qin Dynasty
• Qing Dynasty
• Qingbai
• Qinghua
• Quail
• Queen Mother of the West
• Queue (or Pigtail)

R

• Rat
• Raku (Jp.) ware
• Ram
• Raven
• Red
• Red Cliff, Ode on the
• Reducing kiln atmosphere
• Reeding
• Ren Bonian (1840-96) (Painter)
• Regout
• Register
• Reliquary
• Repoussé
• Republic of China (1912-1949)
• Reticulated
• Rice grain porcelain
• Ricci, Matteo (1552-1610)
• Robin's Egg Glaze
• Rock
• Rococo
• Rolwagen
• Romance of the Western Chamber
• Rooster
• Rose Medallion
• Rouge-de-fer
• Rouleau
• Royal Nanhai Cargo
• Rubruck, William of
• Ru (Ju) ware
• Rubbing
• Ruby back
• Ruby glaze
• Ruyi

S

• Sacred disc
• Sacrificial blue
• Sacrificial red
• Saggar
• Samson
• Samurai (Jp.)
• São Tiago, Carrack, 1602
• Sancai
• Sanduo NEW
• Sander, or pounce pot
• Sang de boeuf
• Satsuma ware (Jp.)
• Scepter
• Scholar's objects
• Schreger pattern
• Seal
• Seal mark
• Seal script
• Sepia
• Seto ware
• Setters
• Seven appearances
• Seven Gods of Luck (Jp.)
• Seven Sages
• Seven Stars Constellation
• Sgraffito
• Shang Ping vase shape
• Shapes, ceramic
• Sheep
• Shende Tang
• Shichi-fuku-jin (Jp.)
• Shippo
• Shipwreck ceramics
• Shipwreck 1450, Royal Nanhai
• Shipwreck 1608, Bin Thuan
• Shipwreck 1730-35, Ca Mau
• Shipwreck 1745, Gotheborg
• Shipwreck 1751, Geldermalsen
• Shipwreck 1817, Diana
• Shipwreck 1821, Tek Sing
• Shipwreck 1845, Desaru
• Shonsui wares
• Shou
• Shou Lao
• Shufu ware
• Shuicai enamels
• Shinto (Jp.)
• Shuangxi (Double Happiness)
• Silica
• Silk Road
• Silkworm chrysalis
• Six Canons of Painting
• Six Dynasties Period (220-589)
• Slip
• Slip casting
• Snuff
• Snake
• Snuff bottle
• Soapstone
• Soba Choko
• Soft paste porcelain, Chinese
• Soufflé blue
• Shochikubai (Jp.)
• Song
• Spice dish
• Spirit bottles
• Spode, Joshua (1733-1797)
• Spriggs
• Spur marks
• Staffordshire
• Steatite
• Stencil decoration
• Stoneware
• Straits Chinese
• Straits Chinese Porcelain
• Sui dynasty (581-617)
• Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925)
• Sumida Pottery (Jp.)
• Susancai
• Swallow
• Swastika
• Swag
• Swatow ware
• Sweet white (Tianbai) Glaze
• Symbolism
• Symbols: Animals
• Symbols, explained

T

• Taisho period (Jp.)
• Taoism
• Taotie
• Tang Dynasty (618-907)
• Tang Ying (Tang Yao, 1728-56)
• Tazza
• Tea Caddy
• Tea Pot
• Tea-dust glaze
• Temmoku (Jian ware)
• Ten Bamboo Studio
• Terracotta
• Terracotta Army
• Thailand, Ceramics
• Thousand flower pattern
• Three Friends of Winter
• Three Kingdoms
• Three Stargods(San xing)
• Throwing
• Tianbai (Sweet white) Glaze
• Tiffin
• Tiger
• Tiger and Dragon
• Tingqua (1809-1870) studio
• Tin-glazed earthenware
• Ting wares
• TL-test
• Tobacco leaf pattern
• Tobi Seiji (Jp.)
• Tokkuri (Jp.)
• Tokugawa (Jp.)
• Toleware or Tole
• Tong
• Tortoise and Snake
• Tradescant jar
• Transfer printing
• Transitional period
• Trigrams, the eight
• Triptych
• Trowulan
• Tulip
• Turning
• Turquoise glaze
• Tutanego
• Twelve Ornaments

U

• Ukiyo-e, Jp. wood blocks
• Undercut
• Underglaze Blue and White
• Underglaze decoration
• Urna

V

• Vajra
• Valentine Pattern
• Verbiest, Ferdinand (1623-1688)
• Vitreous
• VOC (1602-1798)

W

• Wabi-sabi (Jp.)
• Wade-Giles romanization system
• Wagener, Gottfried (1830-92)
• Wang Bingrong (c. 1820-1875)
• Wanshou Wujiang
• War God, Guandi
• Wang Zhaojun
• War scenes
• Ware
• Warping
• Wash
• Waster
• Waves
• Wedging
• Wen and Wu principles
• Western Chamber, The Romance of the
• Wood
• Wood block printing
• Wu, State of
• Wu School of Chinese Art
• Wucai
• Wudi, God of War
• Wu Li (1632-1718)
• Wu Shuang Pu 'Peerless Heroes'
• Wutong tree
• Wuxing Five elements

X

• Xianhong Ming Copper-red
• Xieyi
• Xiwangmu

Y

• Yakimono (Jp.)
• Yao
• Yaozhou ware
• Yin and Yang
• Yangcai
• Yingqing glaze
• Yixing (Buccaro)
• Yuan dynasty (1260-1368)
• Yuan Ming Yuan Garden
• Yue yao (Yue ware)
• Yunnan blue and white

Z

• Zen Buddhism
• Zhangzhou ware
• Zhiding
• Zhong Kui (Jap:Shoki)
• Zhou Dynasty
• Zhuanshu
• Zisha
• Zither
• Zodiac