Chinese Ceramic Forms

Chinese ceramics show a continuous development since pre dynastic times and are one of the most significant forms of chinese art and ceramics globally.

Chinese ceramic forms.

The first pottery was made during the palaeolithic era. Chinese ceramic ware is an art form that has been developing since the neolithic period. Earthenware stoneware and porcelain particularly those made in china. Cultural relics publishing house 2011.

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. Neolithic sung dynasty 6000 b c. 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. 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. As an art form only ceramics cover the entire forty five century span of chinese history. 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.