Sure enough, in 1958 the department of cultural relics of Nanjing found a large number of spare components of the pagoda, most with handwritten numbers in ink on them. The "Porcelain Pagoda of ...

Sponsored by Buddhist circles in China, the pagoda was constructed at the Temple ... during the fifth century, found in Nanjing. It was taken to Chang'an (today's Xi'an) during the Sui Dynasty ...