The Porcelain Road: Jingdezhen and the World

How a small town in Jiangxi became the center of the global ceramics trade

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Before silk, before tea, there was porcelain. And before porcelain was global, there was Jingdezhen — a remote town in Jiangxi province that, for over a thousand years, produced the finest ceramics the world had ever seen.

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1271–1368

Blue-and-White: The Global Standard

In the Yuan Dynasty, Jingdezhen potters perfected blue-and-white porcelain using cobalt imported from Persia. The result was revolutionary: a pure whi

1368–1644

The Ming Imperial Kilns

The Ming Dynasty established imperial kilns in Jingdezhen, producing porcelain exclusively for the emperor. The quality control was extreme — thousand

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