Apothecary bottle with mynas and peonies, c. 1660-1680, Unknown Japanese, 20 1/4 × 13 3/8 × 13 3/8 in. ( × × cm), Imari ware; porcelain with underglaze cobalt blue, Japan, 17th century, In the 1500s and 1600s, blue-and-white porcelains made at China’s famed Jingdezhen kilns were extremely popular in Europe, where the technology required to produce porcelain would not be known for another 200 years. When the Jingdezhen kilns entered a period of decline in the mid-1700s, porcelain makers in a town in far western Japan called Arita seized the opportunity

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