Chinese Ceramic Forms

Cultural relics publishing house 2011.

Chinese ceramic forms. 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. The chinese ceramic society the history of chinese pottery and porcelain beijing. Chinese ceramic ware is an art form that has been developing since the neolithic period. 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 pottery objects made of clay and hardened by heat. The first pottery was made during the palaeolithic era. 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. The history of chinese ceramics began some eight thousand years ago with the crafting of hand molded earthenware.

Chinese ceramics show a continuous development since pre dynastic times and are one of the most significant forms of chinese art and ceramics globally. Neolithic sung dynasty 6000 b c. The morphology table contains information describing the range of vessel forms and types described by this table. As an art form only ceramics cover the entire forty five century span of chinese history.