Blue-and-white underglaze porcelain
Porcelana azul y blanca bajo cubierta
- Date
- c. 1330 · confidence high
- Place
- Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, China
- Credited to
- Potters of Jingdezhen (Yuan dynasty)
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
Porcelain decorated with cobalt oxide imported from Persia under a transparent glaze and fired at high temperature. It became the world's most widely exported luxury ceramic.
There are isolated trials with cobalt in Tang-period Gongxian pottery (9th century).
What it led to
- worldwide porcelain trade via the Indian Ocean and the Manila galleon
- imitations in Persia, Delft and Meissen