The Manganese/Cobalt Ratio in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Asian Porcelain

Thus, the late wares have been regarded as technically and chronologically unimportant, and very little attention, analytic or otherwise, has been allocated to their study.

Archaeological and ethnographic work on overseas Chinese sites, particularly in the American West, has stimulated new interest in the ceramics produced in Asia in the 19th and 20th centuries. Research by Chace (1976), Garaventa and Pastron (1983), Olsen (1978), Pastron, Gross, and Garaventa (1981), and others has focused attention on ceramic types which Garner and other antiquarians would have dismissed as unimportant.