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been found in Ch'tian-chou. Swatow, however, was most proba-
bly the main port of dispatch.
China's export trade to the Nan-hai ("South Seas") was already
flourishing in the Sung and Yuan dynasties. Early Ming wares, in-
cluding celadon, Ching-te-chen white porcelain, Tz'u-chou,
ch'ing-pai, and Te-hua have been found in huge quantities over an
area extending from the Philippines to East Africa. These export
wares had a profound influence on the native pottery of Southeast
Asia. Blue and white was not only successfully imitated in Japan
(Imari ware), but also in Annam and, less successfully because
they lacked the cobalt, by the Thai potters at Sawankalok, al-
though the Siamese kilns succeeded in producing a beautiful cela-
don of their own. Before the end of the Ming Dynasty, the
Chinese factories were also making porcelain on order for Euro-
pean customers, notably through the Dutch "factory" established
at Batavia (Jakarta) in 1602; but this trade, which was to play so
great a part in the contacts between Europe and China, we must
leave to Chapter 1 1

271 Dish, "Swatow" ware. Porcelain
decorated in undcrglaze blue and enamel
red. Probably from Shih-ma. Fukien.
Late Ming period.

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