The earliest Chinese ceramics in Europe?

Gutiérrez, Alejandra; Gerrard, Christopher; Zhang, Ran; Wang, Guangyao

Abstract

The importation of Chinese porcelain and celadon into Europe has long been thought to have first begun around the thirteenth century AD. A unique group of Chinese ceramic sherds from archaeological contexts in Spain dated to between the ninth and eleventh centuries, however, now represents the earliest Chinese wares identified in Europe. Such an unexpectedly early presence on high-status sites in Western Europe probably reflects changing patterns of commerce in the Indian Ocean and the giving of prestigious gifts at the very highest levels of social and political power across the Islamic Mediterranean world.

Citation

Gutiérrez, A., Gerrard, C., Zhang, R., & Wang, G. (2021). The earliest Chinese ceramics in Europe?. Antiquity, 95(383), 1213-1230. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.95

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 30, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Jul 16, 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Deposit Date: Nov 26, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 30, 2021
• Journal: Antiquity
• Print ISSN: 0003-598X
• Electronic ISSN: 1745-1744
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 95
• Issue: 383
• Pages: 1213-1230
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.95
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1284669