In one early European religious painting, the artist places a blue-and-white porcelain bottle in the hands of one of the levantine kings in the biblical story of the Adoration of the Magi, and in the slightly later The Feast of the Gods by the Venetian Renaissance painters Bellini and Titian, one can also find pieces of Ming-dynasty blue-and-white ware.
歐洲早期的宗教畫中，就有畫家讓聖經故事「三王來朝」中的東方君王之一，手捧青花瓷瓶！文藝復興名畫家伯立尼、提香的畫裡，也有盛著瓊漿玉液的青花瓷器。