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what is "Blue and white wares"?

"Blue and white wares" designate white pottery,ceramic and porcelain decorated under the glaze with a blue pigment, generally cobalt oxide. The decoration is commonly applied by hand, by stencilling or by transfer-printing, though other methods of application have also been used.

The first blue and white wares were as early as the ninth century in Henan province, China, although there were shards found there, the only three pieces of complete "Tang blue and white" in the world were recovered from Indonesian Belitung shipwreck in ***8 and later sold to Singapore. In the early fourteenth century mass-production of fine, translucent, blue and white porcelain started at Jingdezhen, sometimes called the porcelain capital of China.

By the beginning of the *7th century Chinese blue and white porcelain was being exported directly to Europe. In the *7th and *8th centuries, Oriental blue and white porcelain was highly prized in Europe and America and sometimes enhanced by fine silver and gold mounts, it was collected by kings and princes.