China and the West

Hardy, Thomas. Works.
http://www.online-literature.com/hardy/.
1872
Hardy, Thomas. Under the greenwood tree : a rural painting of the Dutch school. (London : Tinsley Brothers, 1872).
Dame the tenth : the honourable Lara.
Chap. 7
"Before the words were half out of his mouth the old gentleman had exclaimed, 'Ah!' and precipitated himself along what seemed to be the passage to the kitchen; but as this turned out to be only the entrance to a dark china-closet, he hastily emerged again, after a collision with the inn-crockery had told him of his mistake."

1874
Hardy, Thomas. Far from the madding crowd. (London : Smith, Elder, 1874).
Chap. 24
"And, he was brought up so well, and sent to Casterbridge Grammar School for years and years. Learnt all languages while he was there; and it was said he got on so far that he could take down Chinese in shorthand ; but that I don't answer for, as it was only reported."
Chap. 44
"Liddy vanished, and at the end of twenty minutes returned with a cloak, hat, some slices of bread and butter, a tea-cup, and some hot tea in a little china jug."

1876
Hardy, Thomas. The hand of Ethelberta. (London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1875-1876).
Chap. 20
"That she had not the slightest notion of accepting the impulsive painter made little difference; a lover's arguments being apt to affect a lady's mood as much by measure as by weight. A useless declaration like a rare china teacup with a hole in it, has its ornamental value in enlarging a collection."

1878
Hardy, Thomas. The return of the native. (London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1878).
6. A conjuncture.
"She drew from the small willow reticule that she carried in her hand an old-fashioned china teacup without a handle; it was one of half a dozen of the same sort lying in the reticule, which she had preserved ever since her childhood, and had brought with her today as a small present for Clym and Eustacia."

1880
Hardy, Thomas. The trumpet major : a tale. (London : Smith, Elder, & Co., 1880).
Chap. 17
"Indoors, Miss Johnson admired everything: the new parrots and marmosets, the black beams of the ceiling, the double-corner cupboard with the glass doors, through which gleamed the remainders of sundry china sets acquired by Bob's mother in her housekeeping-- two-handled sugar-basins, no-handled tea-cups, a tea-pot like a pagoda, and a cream-jug in the form of a spotted cow."

1881
Hardy, Thomas. A laodicean ; or, The castle of the De Stancys : a story of to-day, etc. (London : S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881).
Chap. 12
"It was an old stock enough, though not a rich one. His great-uncle had been the well-known Vice-admiral Sir Armstrong Somerset, who served his country well in the Baltic, the Indies, China, and the Caribbean Sea."

1883
Hardy, Thomas. The romantic adventures of a milkmaid. (New York, Harper & Brothers, 1883).
Chap. 7
"Pair of silver candlesticks: inlaid work-table and work-box: one large mirror: two small ditto: one gilt china tea and coffee service: one silver tea-pot, coffee-pot, sugar-basin, jug, and dozen spoons: French clock: pair of curtains: six large pictures."

1886
Hardy, Thomas. The mayor of Casterbridge : the life and death of a man of character. (London : Smith, Elder, & Co., 1886).
Chap. 11
"I have to be away for a day or two on business, unfortunately; but during that time you can get lodgings--the only ones in the town fit for you are those over the china-shop in High Street--and you can also look for a cottage."

1887
Hardy, Thomas. The woodlanders. (London : Macmillan, 1887).
Chap. 7
"His companions were timber-dealers, yeomen, farmers, villagers, and others ; mostly woodland men, who on that account could afford to be curious in their walking-sticks, which consequently exhibited various monstrosities of vegetation, the chief being cork-screw shapes in black and white thorn, brought to that pattern by the slow torture of an encircling woodbine during their growth, as the Chinese have been said to mould human beings into grotesque toys by continued compression in infancy."

1891
Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the d’Urbervilles. (London : James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1891).
Chap. 10
"All looked at Car. Her gown was a light cotton print, and from the back of her head a kind of rope could be seen descending to some distance below her waist, like a Chinaman's queue."

1892
Hardy, Thomas. The pursuit of the well-beloved : a sketch of a temperament. (London : Illustrated London News, 1892).
I. "There were Chinese lanterns, too, on the balcony."
VI. "The room was less furnished than when he had last beheld it. The 'bo-fet,' or double corner-cupboard, where the china was formerly kept, had disappeared, its place being taken by a plain board."

1894-1895
Hardy, Thomas. Jude the obscure. In : Harper's magazine (1894-1895). = The Simpletons.
Chap. 5
"Perhaps I can pick up a cheap bit of furniture or old china."

1898
Hardy, Thomas. Wessex poems and other verses. (London : Harper, 1898).
"If ye break my best blue china, children, I shan't care or ho."

1903
Hardy, Thomas. The dynasts : a drama of the Napoleonic wars. In three parts, nineteen acts, & one hundred and thirty scenes. (London : Macmillan, 1903).
Act first
"Travelling carriages, teams, and waggons, laden with pictures, carpets, glass, silver, china, and fashionable attire, are rolling
out of the city, followed by foot-passengers in streams, who carry their most precious possessions on their shoulders."