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Article: Chinese porcelain artifacts older than Jingdezhen China; blue and white porcelain fragments found in Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, sets origins back five centuries to the Tang Dynasty.
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- December 1, 1990
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Blue and white porcelain fragments found in Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, sets origins back five centuries to the Tang Dynasty.
Most porcelain connoisseurs consider their collection incomplete without blue and white porcelain ware from the famous kilns of Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province. According to art historians, the first blue and white porcelain was fired on this site during the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368).
But recent findings in Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, are changing this belief. New information pushes back, by five centuries, the making of blue and white porcelain ware to the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and changes the site of its birthplace. These findings ...