Ancient Chinese Ceramic Pottery

Chinese ceramic ware is an art form that has been developing since the neolithic period.

Ancient chinese ceramic pottery.

Earthenware stoneware and porcelain particularly those made in china. The ancient city of changnan in modern day jingdezhen pottery capital combined the natural resources so well utilizing the natural celadon material and glaze from the southern yue kiln and the pure white porcelain from the northern xing kiln from the high quality earth surrounding the gaoling mountain in the area to create smooth bright and literally luminescent pottery. At this time celadon china s famous jade green glaze that was often found on the porcelain was very popular. Ancient potteryin china dates back to paleolithic culture.

The first potterywas made during the palaeolithicera. Nowhere in the world has pottery assumed such importance as in china and the influence of chinese porcelain on later european pottery has been profound. Porcelain is the creative fruit of the working people of ancient china. There are two primary categories of chinese ceramics low temperature fired pottery or táo 陶 about 950 1200 and high temperature fired porcelain or cí 瓷 about 1250 1400.

Porcelain is said to date back over 2 000 years and some of the first evidence of porcelain pieces have been traced back to the eastern han dynasty in china. The yangshao and longshan cultures. Chinese pottery also called chinese ceramics objects made of clay and hardened by heat. Since the han and tang dynasties porcelain has been exported worldwide.

Porcelain was invented in china over a centuries long development period beginning with proto porcelain wares dating from the shang dynasty 1600 1046 bc. Oldest stone age art the next oldest ceramic. These two porcelain decoration factories specialized in decorating blank porcelain dinnerware and objects such as the cats flower pots vases candlesticks etc. The porcelain figure are likely to have been made in china and decorated at the overjoy porcelain factory or maybe at ah chou factory the owners of the 2 factories are related.

That fragments of xianrendong cave pottery jiangxi province had been carbon dated to 18 000 bce making them the oldest known pots in the world. Chinese ceramics range from construction materials such as bricks and tiles to hand built pottery vessels fired in bonfires or kilns to the sophisticated chinese porcelainwares made for the imperial court and for export. It promotes economic and cultural exchange between china and the outside world and profoundly influences the traditional culture and lifestyle of people from other countries.