Chinese Ceramics - Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911 (Hardcover)

The Victoria & Albert Museum houses one of the biggest and most comprehensive collections of Chinese ceramics in the West. Illustrated with fine examples from the collection, this book describes the production of porcelain, which reached its peak of technical perfection in the early eighteenth century, and sets it against a wider historical and political background. The story is followed right through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a period which has often been neglected.