Porcelain Collections from Around the World

Publicly accessible major Chinese porcelain collections in museums and other
places. These consist mostly either of items from imperial kilns or high-quality porcelain from private kilns.

Major Collections	Location	Website
National Palace Museum	Taipei, Taiwan	The National Palace Museum contains probably the second largest collection of Chinese imperial porcelain in the world.
Palace  Museum	Beijing, China	Museum located in the old Forbidden City
Shanghai Museum	Shanghai, China	Shanghai Museum
National Museum	Beijing, China	en.chnmuseum.cn
Ashmolean Museum	Oxford, U.K.	https://www.ashmolean.org
British Museum	London, U.K.	Sir Percival David Collection, located in the British Museum
Fitzwilliam Museum	Cambridge, U.K.	https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/
Victoria & Albert Museums	London, U.K.	Chinese porcelain collection
East Asia Museum	Stockholm, Sweden	https://www.ostasiatiskamuseet.se/en
Ceramics Museum Princessehof	Netherlands
Asian Ceramics Colllections: Gemeentemuseum Groninger Museum Rijksmuseum	Netherlands Den Haag Groningen Amsterdam	Princessehof Online Collection
Guimet Museum	Paris, France	https://guimet.fr
Boston Museum of Fine Arts	Boston, USA	https://www.mfa.org/
Brooklyn Museum	New York, USA	https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/
Metropolitan Museum	New York, USA	Chinese Ceramics
Topkapi Palace	Istanbul, Turkey	At the end of the important trade routes with China, the Topkapi Palace museum possibly houses the largest collection of Song and Yuan ceramics outside China.

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