After WWII labels with Maruni & Company appears on pieces of lacquer on metal with the addition Made in Occupied Japan and sometimes also the 'CPO' (Central Purchasing Office) meaning bought in to the US army souvenir trade. I have so far not found any porcelain Maruni wares with the ...
does not render the item either a 'fake' or valueless. In essence, they are items made in homage to the great era of Chinese porcelain making. These items may still have significant value, depending on the quality of the decoration and make. ...
(In Japan, from about 14,000 BCE, the "Jomon" culture was named after the decorative technique of leaving impressions on the outside of the pot, by pressing rope into the clay before firing it.) Neolithic Pottery in China Although Chinese pottery had been made continuously since 18,000 ...
The new pottery may have been produced in a specific village and become widely accepted. This paper presents the first proposition to the production systems of Jomon and Yayoi pottery by examining the petrology of excavated samples at sites intermittently occupied by humans during the last 4,300 ...
was beginning to be practiced in China at this time whereas contemporary sites in Japan and Korea were occupied by hunter-gatherers may explain this difference although secure identification of rice in the Tianluoshan ceramics is needed to confirm, and the difference might simply be related to ...
True, in China, pottery was practiced almost continuously from the time of Xianrendong Cave Pottery (c.18,000 BCE) and Yuchanyan Cave Pottery (16,000 BCE), and in Russia's Far East from the time of Amur River Pottery (14,300 BCE). In Japan, the oldest clay-fired ceramics began ...