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This Board has been created to continue the tradition of scholarly generosity set by many good students of Asian ceramic art and history around the world. To me, my direct inspiration came from my friend and mentor, the late Professor and Curator of Asian Art, Bo Gyllensvärd. More then once he half jokingly said that "it takes fifty years to become fairly knowledgeable in Asian ceramics". This being a bit discouraging, in 1998 I set out to create Gotheborg.com as a meeting place where collectors and specialists alike could combine information and our various experiences into one big knowledge resource so that we hopefully could speed up this learning process a bit.

With the help of many thousand contributing members this Discussion Board has now grown into a large and much appreciated collector's knowledge database and a meeting place. We now have about 170,000 messages and about the same number of porcelain pictures in our archive, why the best way to start a quest for information is always to use our Search link (top right), before posting a question to the Board.

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Thank you all for your participation, interest and support over the years.

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Hall of Supreme Harmony
Board Rules and Policies - Please Read Before Posting
This is important information on board rules and policies. As a new member, read this before you post anything. It is about the purpose of this site, its limitations and how we all co-operate to make this rare site work.
0 1 09-11-03  08:30 am Jan-Erik Nilsson
How to Post Questions and Participate in the Discussions
FAQ on practical issues and how to get the most out of this huge knowledge center.
See also the " Help/Instructions" link at the bottom of all pages.
20 4 11-07-11  04:52 am Oralei Fauble
The Sportsman's Bar
Off Topic Trade News and Friendly Chit-chat [90 days archive]
News and friendly chit-chat that doesn't fit anywhere else. Threads not added to for more than 90 days will be deleted automatically.
11328 1040 02-11-12  11:11 am Dave Jacobs
Japan 2011 Tsunami Relief auctions
This topic is open for any registered guest of full member to bid and discuss listed items put up for sale towards our support of the Kameda Hospital tsunami victims. For any questions, please feel free to post here or contact board admin.
584 67 12-23-11  01:20 pm Dimitri Poliakoff
Local Meetings
Invitations to and reports from local chapter meetings
836 63 12-30-11  02:44 am Susan Wehmeier
Exhibitions and Museum Collections
Visits at public exhibitions, for easy reference. Plese feel free to add your pictures here
1721 138 02-08-12  12:14 am David Lane
Price Records and Exceptional Tales
Welcome to post any and all information on spectacular price records and antiques trade lore from today and days gone by.
358 56 02-09-12  02:19 am Jeremy Lowery
Chinese Pottery and Porcelain

To find information in the topics below, the best way is usually to use the board SEARCH function

Simons Quest
Put your fellow members on an educational trial
6050 233 02-08-12  01:04 pm Victor Judge
Chinese Pottery and Porcelain - Help Needed
Last resort posting area. Your question might not be seen by the right group of collectors if you post here rather than under the correct topic. Your question will eventually be moved to where it belong, if so, use the *Search* link (top right) to find it again.
11807 987 02-10-12  05:32 pm Ingrid Stockton
Early Pottery
Neolithic and later earthenware, "proto-porcelain" jars and figures, Zhou, Warring States and Han, Sui, Tang, Ming and Qing figures and architechtural pieces, Changsha wares.
6522 522 02-10-12  08:28 pm Ingrid Stockton
Green wares
Yue yao, Zhejiang Celadon, Northern and the numerous Southern Song kilns, Thai, Korean and Japanese ceramics and any related Asian ceramics with mostly green/gray/brown monochrome glaze
7936 656 02-09-12  11:11 am Hans Slager
White wares
White round wares from Tang dynasty, Ding yao, Qingbai/Yingqing, white Jingdezhen porcelain from Ming, Qing and later, Fujian province, etc.

7330 521 02-11-12  10:58 am Pahrul Asapil
Crackled wares
Song guan or ge or later imitations thereof
1193 115 02-07-12  12:36 am Veronica L Pruitt
Brown and Black wares
Temmoku / Jian ware, Huangpu, Lushan, Cizhou and Jizhou.
4800 367 12-01-11  09:57 pm Ambrose Nathan
Jun
Jun family type of wares
1452 94 02-11-12  10:43 am Ho Mei Wan Nollway
Yixing (Buccaro) 708 74 01-23-12  06:57 pm Victor Judge
Yuan porcelain 1194 57 02-10-12  10:59 am Nicolas G.
Ming Porcelain
Yuan and Ming porcelain, underglaze red, blue and white, polychrome, Swatow" and Fujian.
8100 527 02-11-12  11:05 am Richard Hennelly
'Kraak' style decoration 1039 69 01-30-12  08:04 pm Arno Jacobs
Chinese Imperial Porcelain
Discussions related to Imperial porcelain as such, ordering, decoration, marks, use etc.
1375 67 02-11-12  06:47 am Joan K. Brand-Landka
Early to mid Qing Blue and White - Chinese taste
With 'Chinese taste' we mean shapes not specifically ordered to fit western needs and purposes like flat plates and coffee cups w handles etc.
12906 973 02-09-12  09:48 pm Jim Horne
Early to mid Qing porcelain - Chinese taste - polychromes
Early to mid Qing dynasty polychrome wares, such as wucai, doucai, susancai that are not of explicit export type, nor Imperial.
7603 556 02-11-12  10:01 am Hans Slager
Chinese Western Market Export Porcelain
Special designs, Armorial porcelain, all pieces with shapes and decorations made to order or to fit foreign taste and customs. Decorations typically blue and white, Willow Pattern, Famille Rose, Famille verte, Rose Medallion etc.
6958 659 02-11-12  09:56 am Arno Jacobs
"Clobbered" porcelain
Chinese export porcelain with later enamel decoration added.
607 53 01-10-12  11:23 am Carlos Morell
Late Qing and 20th century - Enameled wares
19th and 20th century - Guangxu, Early Republic, Straits Chinese Porcelain, fencai, the Eight Friends of Zhushan, Jiangxi Porcelain Co., Mao Zedong, etc.
13262 1184 02-10-12  08:21 pm Ingrid Stockton
Late Qing and 20th century - Blue and White
From "Kangxi revival" to modern wares. All pieces where underglaze blue is involved, also underglaze blue and red and high fired cobalt glaze.
1078 134 02-11-12  09:44 am Richard Hennelly
Porcelain plaques 473 31 01-14-12  12:45 am Mike Harty
Dated porcelain
Porcelain dated to a specific year by their inscriptions.
2049 153 02-09-12  10:35 pm Jim Horne
Cultural revolution
1965-75 Chinese porcelain and related areas, also 'Macao' porcelain
328 36 10-11-11  01:54 pm Tommy Eklöf
Bleu de Hue
Chinese porcelain for the Vietnamese market
174 33 11-19-11  07:10 pm Joe Hertel
Porcelain Figures
White figures from Dehua Blanc-de-Chine types and Jingdezhen white wares, other figures, monochrome or with enamel decorations.
1365 164 12-23-11  01:59 pm Paul Anthony Ardron
Monochromes
Colored glazes such as Ox-blood, peach bloom, powder blue, tea dust, yellow, green, mirror black, Faux bronze, faux wood, etc.
5900 438 02-09-12  09:53 am Nicolas G.
Carved, incised, cast or moulded wares
Chen Guozhi, Wang Bingrong, Li Yucheng and similar wares and artists.
80 10 01-18-12  08:49 pm Candace Chacona
Chinese Porcelain Marks
Before posting any questions here kindly first browse the gotheborg.com "Marks" section. Additions and corrections for that section could be added here.
3262 423 02-08-12  04:27 pm Tommy Eklöf
Chinese Porcelain Motifs
On particular stories and their illustrations that appear on porcelain, with documentation and pictures of variations that appear on porcelain from different periods. Topics on particular motifs, such as dragon depictions/variations.
2391 133 02-11-12  10:35 am khchan_asia1
Contemporary Chinese Porcelain & Ceramic Art
Works currently produced by recognized individual artist.
393 64 12-27-11  11:42 pm Urmas Veri
Japanese Pottery and Porcelain
Help Needed - Is this Japanese?
Last resort posting area. Your question might not be seen by the right group of collectors if you post here rather than under the correct topic. Your question will eventually be moved to where it belong, if so, use the *Search* link (top right) to find it again.
4766 552 02-11-12  09:47 am Clare Kendall
Japanese Section 'Off Topic'
Friendly thoughts and chit-chat that doesn't fit anywhere else
456 61 12-23-11  02:36 pm David Peterson
ARITA
Japanese Early 'Imari' Decoration
Polychrome Arita porcelain 18th century or earlier
1544 139 12-03-11  06:38 pm Jim Horne
Japanese Late 'Imari' Decoration
Polychrome Arita porcelain 19th century or later
3511 390 01-23-12  07:08 am Jim Horne
Kakiemon
Kakiemon and Kakiemon style enamel decoration
500 41 01-24-12  07:04 pm Rob Michiels
Early Blue and White Arita Porcelain
18th century or earlier, until further also Shoki Imari
548 54 11-11-11  12:03 pm Jim Horne
Late Blue and White Arita Porcelain
19th century and later
1362 156 02-08-12  06:50 pm Clare Kendall
KUTANI
Kutani
For more information on Kutani, kindly also refer to Georges Bouvier's Kutani Collector’s web-site.
3715 465 02-10-12  06:14 am John Wocher
SATSUMA
Satsuma and Satsuma-Like
Original Satsuma earthenware but also 'Satsuma marked' items and 'Satsuma looking' pices
4673 550 02-07-12  06:11 am Howard Reed
Japanese Special Topics
Nabeshima
Nabeshima and 'Nabeshima style'
341 33 04-28-11  07:34 pm Jim Horne
Hirado 393 52 12-12-11  04:03 pm Hans Slager
Seto 417 47 12-07-11  04:28 pm Ingrid Stockton
Japanese Figures
Human and animal figures could all be posted here regardless of kiln type or area.
443 64 02-09-12  07:54 pm David Zincavage
Japanese 20th century polychrome porcelain
Koransha/Fukagawa, 'Made in Japan' and 'Japan' marks, etc.
1183 191 11-30-11  11:13 am Gabor Nagy
Dragonware and Moriage 110 20 12-12-11  10:18 pm John Wocher
'Nippon'
Pre 1922 'Nippon' marked porcelain, Geisha Girl etc.
216 35 10-25-11  04:13 pm Ron Walls
Japanese Transfer ware
Blue and white Japanese porcelain with stencilled, transfer printed or otherwise print supported decoration
316 43 02-10-12  03:58 pm Clare Kendall
Japanese Porcelain Marks and Motifs
Before posting any questions here kindly first browse the gotheborg.com 'Japanese Marks' section.
2240 356 01-26-12  05:23 pm Wayte Gillian Ruth
Japanese Studio Pottery and Contemporary Porcelain 724 107 02-10-12  11:58 am Ho Mei Wan Nollway
Other Japanese Pottery and Stoneware
Sumida, Banko, Hagi, Mashiko, etc.
643 107 01-30-12  12:32 am Howard Reed
Other pottery and porcelain questions
Mystery Pieces 1979 202 02-09-12  08:01 pm David Zincavage
Known methods of faking
Method and technology in making pottery and porcelain fakes
667 66 12-06-11  01:33 am David Lane
Discussions on Shapes
The shape of a piece is probably the most important clue to the identification of an item with regard to its authenticity and period. This category is for the discussion on the uniqueness (not just the shape of course) of a particular kind of ware that has been produced throughout a significant period of time in the history of Chinese ceramics like meiping; yuhuchun jar; ginger jar, Gu etc.
585 34 12-22-11  03:27 pm james randolph hilla
Kilns, Clays, Glazes and Decorations
Cross topic question that does not belong under any particular ware
1434 97 11-10-11  02:38 pm Joe Hertel
Base and foot rim archive
Add foot rims / bases of similar age to the same thread. Start new thread if you want to cover a new type that is not represented.
224 61 10-15-10  04:06 am Mike Vermeer
Asia outside China and Japan
Korea, Vietnam/Annam, Khmer, Thai (Si Satchanalai/Sawankaloke, Sukhothai) etc.
1051 126 02-09-12  04:36 am Walter Susor
Western wares with Oriental design
Edmée Samson of Paris, Delft, Bristol, Bow, Derby, Staffordshire, Caughley, etc. to Bernard Leach
781 92 02-09-12  07:50 am Jim Horne
Wares from the Middle east/Asia minor 138 19 08-27-11  07:39 am paul james
Shards and archaeology
For help on unspecified shard finds
269 41 03-11-10  07:20 pm Hans Slager
Gold, Silver, Metal, Cloisonné, Lacquer, Ivory, Wood, Glass, Jade, Textiles and Paintings, etc.
Snuff Bottles 831 105 02-10-12  06:54 pm Moyra Logan
Textiles, Rugs, Prints, Silk, Paper, Paintings and Calligraphy
Textile art as in clothes, Chinese and Tibetan rugs but also anything related to silk and paper as in calligraphy and paintings
3308 364 02-11-12  01:49 am Mike Harty
Wood, Glass, Ivory, Bone and Jade
Most any non-ceramic pieces that does not fit anywhere else.
4674 494 02-09-12  01:43 pm Andy Mclaren
Lacquer
Chinese and Japanese lacquer, Lac Burgauté, cinnabar or lacquer related items that seems to fit here.
925 129 02-09-12  02:21 pm Moyra Logan
Chinese Gold, Silver, Bronze, Cloisonné and "Canton enamels"
All Chinese or Tibetan gold, silver or metal pieces with or without enamels and those not identified
3553 429 02-07-12  09:13 am Richard Hennelly
Japanese Metal wares and Cloisonné
Japanese metal wares inclusive of swords, armor and dress parts, coper, brass, iron, silver and gold, with and without enamels. Also Totai Shippo Cloisonné enamels, in which a ceramic, earthenware or porcelain body is utilized
1493 174 01-23-12  07:40 am jordan tietolman
General Help and Suggestions
Restoration and conservation
DISCLAIMER: Any handling at all of an antique item may permanently destroy it, as well as all values related to it such as its financial or historical value. Several of the chemicals and processes described here could be extremely harmful and should not be tried by non-professionals. Please be advised that any actual use of the information found here are solely on the individuals own risk and responsibility. By accessing the messages under this topic you are acknowledging that this disclaimer is read and understood.
1008 99 01-07-12  03:50 pm Anna Fraley
Book suggestions
Titles and recommendations of books and book sellers on Chinese Porcelain - add your favourites here.
A wise collector should buy two books per one item the first ten years. / JE
1240 293 02-11-12  09:58 am Hans Slager
Camera and Photo Suggestions
Discussions on camera, light and studio equipment and, how to take and post pictures
210 16 12-31-11  09:35 am Giovanni Repetti
Link suggestions
Valuable references on the Internet, to be included in the permanent LINKs file.
249 103 12-26-11  08:19 pm Victor Judge
Words of Wisdom
Fun, important, clever and unsolicited Advice to the Beginner Collector and New Members. And some board related issues that might have ended here by mistake.
660 74 12-05-11  05:49 pm james randolph hilla
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