Chinese Blue and White Porcelain
中国的青瓷与白瓷
It is believed that underglaze blue and white porcelain was first made in the Tang dynasty. No complete piece of Tang blue and white is known to exist，but shards dating to the eighth or ninth century have been unearthed at Yangzhou in Jiangsu province. It has been suggested that the shards originated from a kiln in the province of Henan. In 1957 excavations at the site of a pagoda in the province Zhejiang uncovered Northern Song bowl decorated with underglaze blue and further fragments have since been discovered at the same site. In 1970 a small fragment of a blue and white bowl, also dated to the eleventh century, was also excavated in the province of Zhejiang. In 1975 shards decorated with underglaze blue were excavated at a kiln site in Jiangxi and, in the same year, an underglaze blue and white urn was excavated from a tomb dated to the year 1319，in the province of Jiangsu. It is of interest to note that a Yuan funerary urn decorated with underglaze blue and underglaze red and dated 1338 is still in the Chinese taste, even though by this time the large-scale production of blue and white porcelain in the Yuan, Mongol, taste had started at Jingdezhen.
有人认为青花瓷是在唐朝首次制成的。现在没有一块完整的唐青花瓷存在，但在江苏省扬州已出土的碎片可追溯至第八或第九世纪。有人说，此碎片来自于从河南全省的瓷窑。 1957年在浙江省宝塔发掘的北宋瓷碗用青花装饰，并有更多的瓷碗被发掘于同一地点。在1970年发掘的青花碗，也可以追溯至十一世纪，也是出土于浙江省。 1975年发掘的青花瓷碎片是在江西窑址，并在同一年，在江苏省一座墓地发掘的青花瓮可以追溯至1319年。让人感兴趣的的是，元陪葬骨灰盒用青花和釉里红装饰，这可以追溯到1338年。直到现在仍然符合是在中国人的口味，即使这个时候，元代大规模生产的青花瓷，蒙古人最初的体验是从景德镇开始的。
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