Porcelain Gifts, Ceramic Jewelry, and Jingdezhen Collecting Guides

Three ways to combine blue-and-white plates with plain dinnerware. Plan the palette, check the footprint and distinguish product contents from styling props.

Underglaze colour is sealed under the glaze; overglaze enamel and gold sit on top and are fired again. Five ways to tell them apart, and how to care for each.

Rice-grain (linglong) porcelain explained: how Jingdezhen potters cut the tiny windows and fill them with glaze, the backlight test, and how to care for it.

Eight steps from clay to kiln, filmed at a Jingdezhen workshop: throwing, trimming, cobalt painting, fen shui, signing, glazing and the 1,300 °C firing.