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potted and painted, with a deep blue compared to "violets in milk". Many pieces have groups of figures in an extravagant landscape with mountains, clouds, and the moon. Although very much in the "Chinese taste", the pieces also appealed to buyers from Japan and Europe, and many were immediately exported. Other types of wares were made in the
Japanese taste, such as the
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had become a civil war. From 1680 to 1688 the reconstruction of the industry was under the control of Zang
Yingxuan from the Qing Board of Works. Organised production of court porcelain had resumed by 1683, and the institution of forced labour replaced by waged employment. Succeeding controllers were
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Palace-ware or imperial-ware has traditionally found many admirers in Europe and
America. Kangxi reign marks on porcelain are few throughout the ceramic period, but a few can be identified with the pre‑1677 decades. Earlier Ming period marks can frequently be found. Their styles closely match
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and his use of western perspective. The influence of the artist Dong
Qichang can be readily seen on ceramic ware of the period with its heavily accented light and dark tones. The change to Shen Shitung can be seen in generous vertical washes that create a definite foreground and background contrast.
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regime took the capital in 1644. For those many intervening years, and for years after, a variety of porcelain wares were created in private kilns for domestic use and export to client markets such as Japan. Prior to the reinstatement of the imperial kilns at
Jingdezhen the private use of the
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cobalt blue on white. A much more free approach was taken to painting, influenced by other
Chinese genres of painting. Woodblock illustrations to books were often used as sources for images, or their style copied. An exhibition of porcelain from the period was called "The Liberated Brush".
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the few Kangxi marks that are found and aid in delineating Kangxi transitional porcelain.
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is mostly used of these types for the Japanese market, from the
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Chinese Ceramics; Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644â1911
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1245:Mennecy
1227:Chelsea
1191:Meissen
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1105:Goryeo
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942:Swatow
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680:Sancai
663:Canton
658:Tianqi
653:Swatow
643:export
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587:Yixing
572:Jizhou
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