
The image is a photograph of a plaque on a wall. The plaque is rectangular in shape and has a white background with black text. The text is written in Chinese characters and is in a traditional font. Below the text, there is a list of pottery impressions with geometric patterns, which are flourished in the Shang and Zhou periods but declined in the Qing and Han periods. The earliest white pottery is so far found comes from the Yangtze region, and it is more than 7000 years old. Later a fine white ceramic was made in the Shanghai period, examples unearthed from the Yixin site at Anyang in Henan province, mostly imitate the shapes and decoration of bronzes.
