Ancient Chinese Ceramic Art

Stylistic and historical development the formative period to c.

Ancient chinese ceramic art. As an art form only ceramics cover the entire forty five century span of chinese history. Ancient people attached the word pottery to their discovery and used it to create various vessels and tools to improve the quality of life. More than any other material fired clay has served the needs and satisfied the aesthetic tastes of all segments of society in nearly every culture on earth. Chinese art can be dated back to 10 000 bc the neolithic period when simple pottery and sculptures were mostly common.

Used to cook to store things and to hold cuisine or waters as dishes. 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. Over the course of thousands of years they became dominant wares in people s daily life. Ancient chinese art is arguably one of the oldest continuous traditions 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 porcelain wares made for. Chinese ceramic ware is an art form that has been developing since the neolithic period. The earliest evidence for art in any form in ancient china consists of crude cord marked pottery and artifacts decorated with geometric designs found in mesolithic sites in northern china and in the guangdong guangxi regions. Chinese ceramics show a continuous development since pre dynastic times and are one of the most significant forms of chinese art and ceramics globally.

The history of chinese ceramics began some eight thousand years ago with the crafting of hand molded earthenware. Neolithic sung dynasty 6000 b c. The first pottery was made during the palaeolithic era. The dating for prehistoric culture in china is still very uncertain but this material is.

Ancient china covered a vast and ever changing geopolitical landscape and the art it produced over three millennia is unsurprisingly just as varied. Rzky24 straight mouth blue and white vase old style chinese porcelain lion hydrangea pattern hand ceaft rylu17 b blue white fish grass design hexagon ceramic garden stool 51 00 42 00 rzhl32 a b hand painted blue and white ceramic with various pattern plate. 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. This department offers great masterpieces of chinese art and antiques for auction.