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.

Chinese ceramic forms.

As an art form only ceramics cover the entire forty five century span of chinese history. 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.

The morphology table contains information describing the range of vessel forms and types described by this table. Neolithic sung dynasty 6000 b c. Cultural relics publishing house 2011. 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 first pottery was made during the palaeolithic era. Earthenware stoneware and porcelain particularly those made in china. 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. Form is the broadest descriptor while type refines this general classification.