Baltimore & Ohio Railroad dining-car china, still considered one of the nation’s most beautiful china patterns that dates from the golden age of railroad travel, is back. Well, at least one piece of ...

Canton china with its blue and white decoration has been a popular collectible for many years, but few can distinguish it from the other early or modern Chinese blue and white china. It has been ...

Looking for a lesson in globalization? Tracing the history of blue-and-white china is a great primer. The very first examples of white earthenware decorated with cobalt cropped up in China as early as ...

Blue and white porcelains of the Yuan dynasty are known to be rare. In fact, there are only about one hundred whole Yuan dynasty blue and white porcelains in all of China, but there are plenty of ...

Despite the shortages, factories in Ganzhou, the “rare earth capital ,” are in no danger of running out of raw material. In ...

“Chinamania: Whistler and the Victorian Craze for Blue and White,” a small thematic exhibition on view at the Freer Gallery from Aug. 7 until August 2011, explores the significance of Chinese export ...

For many centuries China held the secret to making the world's finest porcelain—white, translucent ceramic ware of such high quality that it produced a musical tone when struck. The envy of potters ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rooksana Hossenally is a Paris-based writer covering luxury travel. Recent cases illustrating a developing uniformization of ...

You know those little blue-and-white bowls some Chinese restaurants use for serving hot-and-sour soup -- clanky, cheap little things? The objects on display at the Smithsonian Institution's Freer ...