Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology		The Collections:
	PotWeb:	Ceramics online @ the Ashmolean Museum	•	Early Europe & Near East
			•	Classical to Medieval
			•	Europe from 1500
			•	Oriental & Islamic

The Ceramic Collections

Oriental and Islamic: • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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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