Chinese Porcelain Collection

COLLECTOR'S RESOURCE LINKS

• American Art Pottery Association
• Antiques Restoration Relevant page for all kinds of restorations
• American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, Ceramics marks (China [Dinnerware], Pottery, Porcelain etc).
• China the Beautiful By: Dr. Ming L. Pei
• Chinaknowledge A universal guide for China studies
• Collectors.org
• Curioscape The largest exclusive antiquing and collecting directory online.
• Encyclopędia Britannica. Search for "Chinese Porcelain"
• Hamlin's Restoration Studio
• Gerald Davison's Handbook of Marks on Chinese Ceramics
• International Ceramics Directory collection of internet pages, concerning historical and contemporary ceramics, chemistry, raw materials etc.
• Kovels' Antiques & Collectibles online Price List
• Marks4ceramics.com, helps Collectors, Dealers and appraisers to Identify & Date Western
• Oriental Coins Database
• Porcelain Dolls and More American and Russian porcelain dolls, Russian Lomonosov porcelain tea and coffee sets, Russian Gzhel porcelain decorative items and miniature porcelain tea sets.
• Svenska AntikNätet
• Thai Ceramics John Shaw Collection
• Vermeer & Griggs Asian Art, Mike Vermeer, Chinese Imperial Porcelain and Monchromes

Chinese Porcelain Collection

JAPANESE PORCELAIN

• ARITA - On Line
• Australian ceramics collectors club site listing international links, including Japanese pottery and porcelain links.
• e-yakimono.net, Premier Japanese ceramics collector's page
• Online Kakiemon Exhibition The Dragon and the Quail, online exhibition of Chinese, Japanese and European porcelains decorated in the Japanese Kakiemon palette.
• Kutani. G. Bouvier's Kutani site.
• Sumida - acording to us, book by; Gardner Pond and Herbert Karp
• International Nippon Collectors' Club (INCC)

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WESTERN CERAMICS

• Porcelain Marks & More, Privately run site on German Porcelain Mark and Manufacturers
• American Art Pottery Association
• Marks4ceramics.com/, helps Collectors, Dealers and appraisers to Identify & Date Western Ceramics marks (China [Dinnerware], Pottery, Porcelain etc).

Chinese Porcelain Collection

MAGAZINES

• Ancient Art Magazine
• Antikvärlden (Swedish)
• Antiques & The Arts Weekly
• Arts of Asia
• Asian Art
• Daruma. English language magazine on Japanese art and antiques
• Discovering Archaeology
• Eastern Art Report Online
• Orientations

Recommended "must have" books on Chinese porcelain:

MUSEUMS

• Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
• Asian Civilization Museum, Singapore
• Beijing Natural History Museum
• Hemudu Site Museum
• Henan Museum
• Ho-Am Museum of Corean Art
• Lee Kong Chian Art Museum, National University of Singapore.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Museum Bredius, The Hague, The Netherlands
• Museum of Qin Shihuang Terracotta Warriors and Horses
• Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm
• Nanjing Museum
• National Gallery of Art, Washington
• National Museum of Chinese History, Beijing, China
• National Palace Museum, Taiwan
• Osaka Museum of Oriental Ceramics
• Ostindiska Huset. Located in the old main office building of The Swedish East India Company.
• Palace Museum, Bejing, China
• Peabody Essex Museum
• Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art
• Shaanxi History Museum
• Shanghai Museum (Chinese only)
• Southeast Asia Ceramics Museum, Bangkok, Thailand
• Tsui Art Foundation, Hong Kong, Tsui Art Foundation collection is one of the best known private collections of Chinese art in the world.
• Topkapi Saray Museum
• University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
• University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong
• World Art Treasures A Virtual Museum
• WWW Library Museums Pages The mother of all museum links pages.
• Xi'an Forest of Stone Tablets Museum

Chinese Porcelain Collection

TRADE TO ASIA

• Dutch Portuguese Colonial History, (Historia Colonial de Portugal e Holanda)
• Kalmar Nyckel Project in Wilmington
• The European Voyages of Exploration
• Peter Johan Bladh - Ostindienfararen, superkargören och kanslirådet

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RESEARCH RESOURCES

• Annotated bibliography on shamanism in Chinese culture
• Archaeology on the Net: Asia (Tumay Asena)
• Asia Society, Education and Learning
• ArchNET - World-Wide Web Virtual Library of Archaeology
• Asian Continent Information Resources
• British Library, India Office Records
• COPAC, Copac National, Academic, and Specialist Library Catalogue
• Daily University Science News
• Dunhuang Project Interactive Database
• Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI)
• Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) Silk Road Atlas
• HobsonJobson The Anglo-Indian Dictionary.
• Internet East Asian History Sourcebook
• Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University
• James Ford Bell Library Historical background and knowledge of trade.
• Old World Traditional Trade Routes (OWTRAD) Project
• Omniglot A-Z Index The Omniglot website provides a guide to over 160 different alphabets, syllabaries and other writing systems. It also contains details of many of the languages written with those writing systems and links to a wide range of language-related resources, such as fonts, online dictionaries and online language courses.
• Society for East Asian Archaeology (SEAA)
• Texas A&M University news and articles within anthroplogy and archaeolgy
• UW Art History department Links Page
• Warring States Project Source Text Research
• Academic Exchanges on Conservation of China
• China World Heritage Site
• Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Center (CHP), an independent Chinese non-profit organization registered in Beijing, with a mission to support communities to protect their cultural heritage throughout China.

Chinese Porcelain Collection

EXTERNAL DOCUMENTS OF INTEREST

• Hou Han Shu The official history of the Eastern Han Dynasty, 25-220 CE, compiled in the fifth century by Fan Ye, but based on earlier records. A new translation with extensive annotations by John Hill, 2003.
• Attic Muse: Help! I Don't Know What It's Worth. Interesting article
• I-Ching Interactive commercial website, fun
• The Tea Man Best resource on Tea on the Net so far
• National Gallery of Art, Washington, Loan Programs: Asian Art
• CNN: Visions of China - In Depth Special
• CNN: So Did Marco Polo Really Go to China?
• China Jingdezhen Special Folk Arts Porcelain Research Institute
• Northern Tibet Exploration. Archaeological Discoveries of the Changthang Circuit Expedition 1999
• Mongolia: The Legacy of Chinggis Khan
• Treasures of the Chinese Scholar
• Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei
• Heavens' Embroidered Cloths: One Thousand Years of Chinese Textiles
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