Don't worry! We've just heard the sound of a piece of crashing china, but that was not a priceless piece of porcelain from the British Museum's collection, it was a chipped old mug from the staff ...

Though in appearance such copies may resemble Chinese porcelain, their clay bodies are merely as hard as earthenware. The Boston museum has a number of outstanding Islamic copies that can be ...

In Europe, blue-and-white porcelain is practically synonymous with China. And we've always associated it with the Ming Dynasty. But it was the David Vases, now in the British Museum, that made us ...

A Chinese porcelain night light ... A similar example of the night light is currently housed in the British Museum and was part of a group of 23,000 pieces recovered from the wreck of an Asian ...