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The Chinese factories made export goods to order, using European drawings, engravings, three-dimensional models or actual vessels as models.<br><br><b>Place</b><br>Chinese porcelain was exported to the West from several kilns in China.  The most productive were those in the city of Jingdezhen in Jiangxi Province.  However, some of the products most favoured by European consumers came from kilns at Dehua, in the south-eastern coastal province of Fujian.  These kilns were close to major export ports such as Amoy (Xiamen) or Canton (Guangzhou).<br><br><b>Materials & Making</b><br>Dehua porcelain was creamy-white, hard and very translucent. It was known in Europe as 'Blanc de Chine' and was one of the first types of porcelain to be copied, in factories such as Meissen.","physicalDescription":"Mug of glazed white porcelain, globular body with wide-band neck, with moulded flower decoration","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"","id":""},{"text":"porcelain","id":"AAT10662"}],"techniques":[{"text":"relief","id":"AAT53622"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Plain white porcelain, with moulded flower decoration","categories":[{"text":"Drinking","id":"THES48965"},{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"}],"styles":[{"text":"Dehua","id":"x44583"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"EAS","id":"THES48596"},"images":["2006AM3192","2006AM7651","2006AM2241"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"56D","id":"THES49242"},"free":"","case":"CA13","shelf":"","box":"14"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"MUG","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Dehua","id":"x32616"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1680-1715","earliest":"1680-01-01","latest":"1715-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Henry Willet","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"9.6","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"10","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"including handle","note":""},{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"7.7","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"6.1","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"mouth","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions checked: Measured; 23/04/1999 by sp","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Given by Mr. Henry Willett, transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology (Jermyn Street, London), accessioned in 1901. This acquisition information reflects that found in the Asia Department registers, as part of a 2022 provenance research project.\nMade in the Dehua kilns in Fujian Province, China","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Mug, porcelain with moulding in relief, China, Dehua, Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), 1680-1715\r\n","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"British Galleries:\nCHINESE PORCELAIN AND EUROPEAN IMITATIONS<br>\nThe whiteness of Chinese porcelain, became the ultimate goal of European potters and they tried many methods to imitate it. A coating of white clay slip tended to flake off an earthenware body, as did a white tin-glaze. High-fired stoneware, as in the German jug, was self-coloured but could be refined only to a light grey/white. John Dwight used Dorset clay and Isle of Wight sand for his expensive lathe-turned 'gorge' mugs, intended for strong ale.","date":{"text":"27/03/2003","earliest":"2003-03-27","latest":"2003-03-27"}}],"partNumbers":["3749-1901"],"accessionNumberNum":"3749","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1901,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LR2330","2019LR2129","2019LU7471"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-06-24","recordCreationDate":"2003-03-27","availableToBook":false}}