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	Comment
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 a Palace of the Forbidden City
Shanghai Museum	Shanghai, China
National Museum	China
Ashmolean Museum	Oxford, U.K.
British Museum	London, U.K.	Sir Percival David Collection in the British Museum
Fitzwilliam Museum	Cambridge, U.K.
Victoria & Albert Museums	London, U.K.	Chinese porcelain collection
East Asia Museum	Stockholm, Sweden
Ceramics Museum Princessehof	Netherlands
Asian Ceramics Colllections: Gemeentemuseum Groninger Museum Rijksmuseum	Netherlands Den Haag Groningen Amsterdam	Princessehof Online Collection
Guimet Museum	Paris, France
Boston Museum of Fine Arts	Boston, USA
Brooklyn Museum	New York, USA
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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