	Middle East ISLAMIC Dates: The ceramics produced in China, Korea, Japan and South East Asia differ in both style and function from Western ceramics. Oriental philosophy sees art and religion as intimately related to every day life. The tradition of ceramic production in the far east dates back to ten or eleven thousand years ago, but much of the items in the Collection are from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and purchased in the UK in the early twentieth century.

Middle East ISLAMIC

Dates:

The ceramics produced in China, Korea, Japan and South East Asia differ in both style and function from Western ceramics. Oriental philosophy sees art and religion as intimately related to every day life. The tradition of ceramic production in the far east dates back to ten or eleven thousand years ago, but much of the items in the Collection are from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and purchased in the UK in the early twentieth century.