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For many centuries China held the secret to making the world's finest porcelain—white, translucent ceramic ware of such high quality that it produced a musical tone when struck. The envy of potters and collectors in Europe and the Middle East, Chinese blue-and-white porcelain owed its excellence to the fine clay available to the Chinese as well as to their high-temperature kilns and the cobalt pigment they used to produce the pieces' brilliant hues. | For many centuries China held the secret to making the world's finest porcelain—white, translucent ceramic ware of such high quality that it produced a musical tone when struck. The envy of potters and collectors in Europe and the Middle East, Chinese blue-and-white porcelain owed its excellence to the fine clay available to the Chinese as well as to their high-temperature kilns and the cobalt pigment they used to produce the pieces' brilliant hues. | ||
=====Emptiness-Substance: Xushi===== | |||
[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118885215.ch16 by Jason C. Kuo 9/10/15 WILEY Online Library] | |||
Xushi (emptiness-substance) is one of the most frequently used terms in Chinese art and literary theory. References to xu and shi appear frequently in Chinese texts on painting written after the sixteenth century, although these terms were discussed in literary theory from Song Dynasty onward. This chapter begins with the elaboration on xushi by looking at the physical living space of the literati, namely the literary garden. Then, it looks at how the creation of a balance of empty and substantial forms has been applied to seal engraving. | |||
