Chinese Ceramics Artists

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.

Chinese ceramics artists.

Sales include a wide range of works such as ceramics jades furniture bronzes sculptures paintings and clocks from the neolithic period to the qing dynasties. 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. Chinese ceramic ware is an art form that has been developing since the neolithic period. The history of chinese ceramics began some eight thousand years ago with the crafting of hand molded earthenware.

Chinese contemporary art began to began to open up to the world art arena in the 1980 s and 1990 s and while comparatively in its infancy it is now making a vibrant impact. Neolithic sung dynasty 6000 b c. This department offers great masterpieces of chinese art and antiques for auction. The collection largely consists of chinese porcelain and works of art from the han through to the qing dynasties with a particular emphasis on ming ceramics kangxi blue and white porcelain famille verte porcelain and famille rose porcelain.

Chinese pottery also called chinese ceramics objects made of clay and hardened by heat. 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. A selection of the chinese ceramicists and sculptors in the modern contemporary art field are represented below. Offering artefacts dating to the neolithic era through to republic period porcelain christie s sales of chinese ceramics and works of art showcase centuries of chinese history.

As an art form only ceramics cover the entire forty five century span of chinese history. Earthenware stoneware and porcelain particularly those made in china. Guest gray also deals in antique japanese porcelain lacquer metalwork and ivory. The first pottery was made during the palaeolithic era.

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.