Mid-17th century sleeve vase among items bringing muscular bidding at Salisbury post-lockdown sale

It was during the so-called Transitional period, the era of protracted civil war that marked the transition from Ming to Qing, that the centuries-old system of court-sponsored porcelain manufacture at Jingdezhen collapsed.

In its place came new customers – the literati, the merchant class and foreign trading companies f…

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