Download

This file contains the chemical analyses of the bodies of Chinese and other oriental porcelains, collected by atomic absorption spectrometry in the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, in the early 1980s. Some of the data were published in full (Chinese whitewares and greenwares), but most was not. The data have been discussed and the analytical methodology described in the following publications:

• Pollard, A.M. and Hatcher, H. (1986). The chemical analysis of Oriental ceramic body compositions: Part 2 – Greenwares. Journal of Archaeological Science 13 261-287.
• Pollard, A.M. and Hatcher, H. (1994). The chemical analysis of Oriental ceramic body compositions: Part 1 - Northern wares. Archaeometry 36 41-62.
• Pollard, A.M. and Wood, N. (1986). The development of Chinese porcelain technology at Jingdezhen. In Olin, J.S. and Blackman, M.J. (eds.) Proceedings of the 24th International Archaeometry Symposium. Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, pp. 104-114.
• Pollard, A.M. and Hall, E.T. (1986). Provenance studies of Oriental porcelain by chemical analysis. In Shanghai Institute of Ceramics (eds.) Scientific and Technical Insights on Ancient Chinese Pottery and Porcelain. Science Press: Beijing, pp. 377-381.
• Wood, N., An AAS study of Chinese imperial yellow porcelain bodies and their place in the history of Jingdezhen's porcelain development. Advances in Archaeomaterials 2(1), 49-65 (2021).
• Pollard, A.M. (1983). Description of method and discussion of results, in Wood, N. ‘Provenance and technical studies of Far Eastern ceramics’, Trade Ceramic Studies 4 119-158.
• Pollard, A.M. and Heron, C. (1996). Archaeological Chemistry. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge (1996). (Chapter 4, The geochemistry of clays and the provenance of ceramics). (2nd revised edition 2008; 3rd revised edn. 2017).

The file contains 536 analyses of Chinese ceramics, mostly dating from the Song dynasty to the early Qing (c. 10th -18th C CE), 150 porcelains from Japan (17th -18th C.), 9 Korean porcelains (12th -19th C), 39 ceramics from Thailand and 39 Japanese stonewares.