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"Tie Hua Xuan(studio)" is a company which located in Shanghai for engaging with potteries especially at beginning of 20th century, its major business was exporting the general goods to Europe,...

"Jingding brand" is a registered trade mark of a company which engaged in Yixing top quality pottery especially at beginning of 20th century. Its location was at Changqiao in Yixing,...

At beginning of twenty century, Yixing purple clay teapots got a flourishing period. At that time, who controlled the Yixing Zisha teapots were not the scholars but the Shanghai industrialists....

During April 28th to Oct 10th in Xuantong next 2 years, Qing Dynast (1910), the Qing government hold the first Southern Seas Industrial Association in Nanjing, promoted by the official...

The Exquisite Records of Yixing Teapots published by Taiwan National Museum of History, with an inscription of "made by Zhening Yucheng kilns" the book considered the Zhening Yucheng kilns as...

This one was used in imitations of Yixing teapots of The Holland during the late-17th century and early-18th century . In the 17th century, accompanied with the prevalent of tea-trade...