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In the late Ming dynasty, porcelain was manufactured in the city of Jingdezhen, the largest and most important kiln complex in China, situated in the northeast of Jiangxi province. Porcelain was already being manufactured in the city in the Song dynasty (960–1279), but it was not until the thirteenth century during the Yuan dynasty (1279–1368) that the imperial or official kilns (guanyao) were established to manufacture porcelain of the finest quality and most advanced technology exclusively for use by the Emperor and the court at the capital in Nanjing. The Emperors of the succeeding Ming dynasty (1368–1644), who after 1420 ruled from the new capital situated further to the north in Beijing, required annual orders of hundreds of thousands of porcelain pieces made in a wide range of shapes, which were often beyond the production capacity of the kilns under imperial supervision. Consequently, a number of privately owned kilns (minyao) located in and around...
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Canepa, T. (2020). Chinese Porcelain: Late Ming (1366–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) Dynasties. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_1336
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