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Fig. 12.21 Jindezhen ceramic wares with high quality (left), and incompletely !red plate (right)

Fig. 12.22 Bowl with a
pattern of Xi Wang Mu
(!!!, the Queen Mother
of the Western Paradise)

12.6 Long-Term Internationalism

Landscape bowls, whose design had only recently been transferred from scroll
painting to porcelains in the 1570s, have a remarkable history (Fig. 12.23). These
are the earliest fully dated examples of a pattern that was copied, degraded, revived,
modi!ed, and copied again for two centuries, until it was codi!ed by an English
potter in the late eighteenth century and copied around the world until our own day.
It is now called “Blue Willow.”

12.7 The Japan Trade

One of the revelations of this cargo is porcelain types which con!dently can be
ascribed to the Chinese trade with Japan. Many are polychrome bowls and plates,
some rather garish, others naturalistic (Figs. 12.24 and 12.25). A few plates