His own people despised him for his wickedness.
He despised them because of his old age and experience of life.
She hated her husband who in turn despised her.
Charles heartily despised him, and yet appears to have retained affection for him.
As for faience and pottery, howeverr the Chinese despised them in all forms, with one notable exception, the yi-hsing-yao, known in the Occident as boccaro.