Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LoveToKnow Before you drop that china off at the thrift store, take a sec to flip it over and give it a closer look. Knowing how ...

Q I read your article about porcelain plates (Nov. 23) and was reminded of a set I have in my possession. My husband’s great-great grandfather, a wholesaler of spices in Gothenburg, Sweden, ordered ...

Almost everything in the nature, like clouds, flowers and sea waves, or even things that do not exist in reality such as mythical dragons, phoenixes and qilin (Chinese unicorn) inspired the ancestors ...

At a dinner during their visit to China in February, US President George W. Bush and his First Lady, Laura particularly admired a set of porcelain. The genre as pictured, is known as "Jixiang ruyi" ...

Wander around the Chinese porcelain section of any museum and you'll most likely only notice the aesthetics of the pieces, from the familiar blue and white pattern of a curvaceous Ming vase to the ...

Sancai means three-colors. However, the colors of the glazes used to decorate the wares of the Tang dynasty were not limited to three in number. In the West, Tang sancai wares were sometimes referred ...

Ever since Grace Young can remember, once a year on Lunar New Year’s Eve in San Francisco her mother would carefully take out her best china to use for the family reunion dinner – a feast including ...