Chinese Ceramic Forms

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 ceramic forms.

Form is the broadest descriptor while type refines this general classification. 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. Cultural relics publishing house 2011. Neolithic sung dynasty 6000 b c.

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. Earthenware stoneware and porcelain particularly those made in china. The chinese ceramic society the history of chinese pottery and porcelain beijing. The history of chinese ceramics began some eight thousand years ago with the crafting of hand molded earthenware.

Chinese pottery objects made of clay and hardened by heat. As an art form only ceramics cover the entire forty five century span of chinese history. Chinese ceramic ware is an art form that has been developing since the neolithic period. The morphology table contains information describing the range of vessel forms and types described by this table.