Ancient Chinese Ceramic Pottery

Porcelain ˈ p ɔːr s əl ɪ n is a ceramic material made by heating materials generally including a material like kaolin in a kiln to temperatures between 1 200 and 1 400 c 2 200 and 2 600 f.

Ancient chinese ceramic pottery. Han pottery production was strongly influenced by three factors. Porcelain is a material made from well chosen porcelain clay or pottery stone through technological processes like proportioning molding drying and firing. Chinese pottery also called chinese ceramics objects made of clay and hardened by heat. Earthenware stoneware and porcelain particularly those made in china.

Chinese silk culture along with porcelain and tea silk is one of china s important innovations. Chinese ceramic ware is an art form that has been developing since the neolithic period. At this time celadon china s famous jade green glaze that was often found on the porcelain was very popular. In the west it is a material that is translucent.

Fabulous fine cloth was an important export as far back as the early roman empire and it was in rome where a law was passed to ban the wearing of silk. Although porcelain developed from pottery the two are different in raw material glaze and firing temperature. The secret of this great invention was closely guarded for centuries. Porcelain vitrified pottery with a white fine grained body that is usually translucent as distinguished from earthenware which is porous opaque and coarser the distinction between porcelain and stoneware the other class of vitrified pottery material is less clear in china porcelain is defined as pottery that is resonant when struck.

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. Compared with pottery porcelain has tougher texture more transparent body and finer luster. The history of chinese ceramics began some eight thousand years ago with the crafting of hand molded earthenware. 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.

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. 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. Nov 30 2016 explore nick eckmayer s board ancient chinese ceramics on pinterest. Chinese pottery during the han dynasty 206 bce 220 ce the first of china s four most important dynasties the han era witnessed numerous cultural developments as well as the establishment of the silk road the main overland trade route with the middle east and europe.