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- Chinese [inactive]
- The Chinese collection is particularly strong in the Greenwares
and other ceramics of the 3rd - 12th centuries AD. It also includes
an extensive collection of later porcelain
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- Indian and South-east Asian [inactive]
- These relatively small collections range in date from Indus
Valley wares (c. 2000BC) to late 19th-century Indian Art School
pottery
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- Islamic
- The collection offers a concise but comprehensive overview of
Islamic pottery from the 9th - 18th centuries AD. Highlights include
17th and 18th-century Persian Blue-and-White wares
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- Japanese
- The Museum has one of the finest collections of Japanese export
porcelain, and one of only two collections of pre-export porcelain
from the first half of the 17th century, together with stonewares
made for the domestic market from the 16th century onwards.
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