The excavations made at Santa Ana by Leandro and Cecilia Locsin vividly illustrate, as in the Ming-period excavations at Calatagan, the great value of Chinese pottery to the early Filipinos and the intensity of the pottery trade during the proto-historic period. At Santa Ana in a large Filipino burial site contemporary with the Sung dynasty were recovered 1, 513 pieces(!) of Chinese pottery in 202 graves. The excavations were made within the city of Manila under extremely difficult circumstances--a story in itself--and represent a major archaeological achievement in the Philippines.--pg. xiii.
This book is an attempt to present a more complete picture of the variety and quality of Chinese and Vietnamese blue and white wares traded to the Philippines.--Amazon.com.
This book examines 146 pieces of Northern Song Period Guangdong ceramics and related wares found in the Philippines. It Includes seven papers on the characteristics of Guangdong ware.
For over a century ceramics have been found and collected from various sites in the Philippines. The presence and distribution of these wares throughout the archipelago testify to the country's strategic location on the ancient maritime trade route and to its interaction with its southern Chinese as well as Southeast Asian neighbors. Of particular interest has been the excavation of grave goods, remnants of the burial culture of the Filipinos before the arrival of the European colonizers. Among these are the much-prized white ware and qingbai ware from Jiangxi, Fujian, and Guangdong provinces in China, as well as white ware of Thai and Vietnamese provenance. Published in connection with an exhibition presented by the Oriental Ceramic Society of the Philippines in Manila in March 1993, this book shows the bulk of the exhibition. comprised of the delicate blue-tinged white qingbai porcelain from Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province and produced in large numbers during the Southern Song period (A.D. 1127-1279). The exceptionally fine craftmanship and variety of shapes are amply illustrated in this book. Included are five previously unpublished papers by Rita C. Tan, Li Zhi-yan, Rosemary E. Scott, Allison I. Diem, and Roxanna M. Broun relating to the characteristics of white ware and to their excavation in the Philippines supplement the catalogue of illustrations.