Jingdezhen Ming Porcelain

Timeline

1. 1501–1505Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Works · JingdezhenDuring the Zhengde reign, Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Works continued to fire blue-and-white porcelain for the court; regular forms, lustrous glazes, and pieces marked 'Made in the Zhengde reign of the Great Ming' mark the maturation and standardization of mid-Ming imperial porcelain craft.
2. 1505–1510Jingdezhen and southeast coastal trade ports · ChinaIn the early sixteenth century, products of Jingdezhen private and imperial kilns were shipped through ports such as Yuegang and Quanzhou to Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean; Portuguese merchants soon entered the Eastern trade, and Chinese porcelain became one of the core commodities of transoceanic exchange.