ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies, describes, and illustrates twenty-one of the most common eighteenth century Chinese export color palettes, decorative styles, and motifs. During the eighteenth century, there is also a great variety of spearhead motifs painted by porcelain decorators in Jingdezhen and overglaze enamelers in Canton. Kangxi porcelains were decorated with a banded landscape that also included human figures. Pavilion landscapes constitute the most identifiable class of decorative styles of underglaze blue and white Chinese export wares. The Chinese pavilion landscapes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries date to 1710 –1853. Variations of the pavilion landscape had an incalculable influence on Western ceramic decorative styles and helped create the mania for Chinese-inspired decoration on British produced ceramics. Much of the classification of pavilion landscapes is associated with the greatly declining variety of porcelain patterns ordered by the English East India Company during the second half of the eighteenth century.
