Author: Rose Kerr Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 134
Book Description
"Song Dynasty Ceramics highlights over 118 objects from the V & A's collection to discuss China's great age of ceramic production (960-1279). Ceramics from this era have always been prized by both Asian and Western collectors for their purity of form and glaze, and their inventiveness of decoration. This survey is illustrated with many of the very finest examples of Song ware in the Western world."--Jacket.
Author: Adam T. Kessler Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004218599 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 679
Book Description
Song Blue and White Porcelain on the Silk Road disproves received opinion that pre-Ming blue and white dates to the Yuan (1279-1368 A.D.) and establishes the proper foundation for 21st century study of ancient Chinese porcelain.
Author: Lili Fang Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 9811990948 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 1184
Book Description
Adopting the perspective of anthropology of art and combining it with global academic insights, this book helps the readers to recognize that “history is, in great measure, the record of human activity which spreads from the local to the regional, from the regional to the global, and from the global to the universal.” Readers will learn that China was not only the first country to create porcelain, but also the first to export it to the world, both the products and its techniques. Therefore, the history of Chinese ceramics reflects the history of Chinese foreign trade on the one hand and depicts the expansion of Chinese ceramic techniques and cultures on the other. In addition to ceramics types, molds, decoration, and techniques, the book analyzes the spiritual impacts and aesthetic conceptions embodied in the utensils of daily use by the Chinese literati. Therefore, it reaches the conclusion that ideological systems and not technological systems are what bring about social revolutions. In addition, the book is richly illustrated with pictures of earthenware and finely glazed pieces from later periods.
Author: Stuart Powell Publisher: Troubador Publishing ISBN: 9781780880532 Category : Pottery, Chinese Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
A History of Song Dynasty Ceramics explores the range of ceramics produced in China and in its conquered territories from the middle of the 10th to the latter parts of the 13th centuries. It looks primarily at the pottery and porcelain dating from the Song Dynasty, but also refers to the ceramics that originated in the territories held by the Liao and Jin Dynastic rulers. It considers the range of pottery and porcelain produced by Song Dynasty potters from that made in the provinces for the non-aristocratic to the finest of the tribute wares made for the Imperial palaces. Setting out to improve understanding of the work of the potters and the ceramic pieces that they produced, it also explores the context within which the potting, decorating and firing was done and within which the resulting products were appreciated, traded and used. It examines how the ceramics of the Song period were the outcome of much complexity: the technologies of the times, the raw materials available, the traditions of skilled work in the kiln complexes, the socialisation of the workforce that made them amenable to organisation for mass production, the burgeoning economic climate and the development of a distinctively Song sense of aesthetic taste in which harmony between form and function was achieved by understatement and refinement.
Author: Lili Fang Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 052118648X Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 159
Book Description
Throughout China's long history ceramic products have been very much a part of people's lives. This book takes the reader through the rich history of Chinese ceramics, from primitive pottery to the delicate porcelain for which China is famed, complemented by full color illustrations throughout.
Author: Gerald Davison Publisher: Han-Shan Tang ISBN: Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 208
Book Description
Information on "origins and development of the Chinese written language" precedes the extensive catalog of marks, including marks in regular kaishu script, marks in zhuanshu seal scripts, symbols used as marks, directory of marks, and list of potters.
Author: Lisa E. Rotondo-McCord
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Author: Rose Kerr
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Author: Adam T. Kessler
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Author: Stuart Powell
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