Ancient Chinese Ceramic Pottery

Porcelain ˈ p ɔːr s əl ɪ n is a ceramic material made by heating materials generally including a material like kaolin in a kiln to temperatures between 1 200 and 1 400 c 2 200 and 2 600 f.

Ancient chinese ceramic pottery.

The history of chinese ceramics began some eight thousand years ago with the crafting of hand molded earthenware. Earthenware stoneware and porcelain particularly those made in china. Porcelain vitrified pottery with a white fine grained body that is usually translucent as distinguished from earthenware which is porous opaque and coarser the distinction between porcelain and stoneware the other class of vitrified pottery material is less clear in china porcelain is defined as pottery that is resonant when struck. Although porcelain developed from pottery the two are different in raw material glaze and firing temperature.

Han pottery production was strongly influenced by three factors. Chinese pottery also called chinese ceramics objects made of clay and hardened by heat. Chinese ceramic ware is an art form that has been developing since the neolithic period. Compared with pottery porcelain has tougher texture more transparent body and finer luster.

Porcelain is said to date back over 2 000 years and some of the first evidence of porcelain pieces have been traced back to the eastern han dynasty in china. Fabulous fine cloth was an important export as far back as the early roman empire and it was in rome where a law was passed to ban the wearing of silk. Nov 30 2016 explore nick eckmayer s board ancient chinese ceramics on pinterest. The toughness strength and translucence of porcelain relative to other types of pottery arises mainly from vitrification and the formation of the mineral mullite within the body at.

Porcelain is a material made from well chosen porcelain clay or pottery stone through technological processes like proportioning molding drying and firing. The discovery of porcelain. 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 silk culture along with porcelain and tea silk is one of china s important innovations.

Chinese pottery during the han dynasty 206 bce 220 ce the first of china s four most important dynasties the han era witnessed numerous cultural developments as well as the establishment of the silk road the main overland trade route with the middle east and europe. At this time celadon china s famous jade green glaze that was often found on the porcelain was very popular. The ancient city of changnan in modern day jingdezhen pottery capital combined the natural resources so well utilizing the natural celadon material and glaze from the southern yue kiln and the pure white porcelain from the northern xing kiln from the high quality earth surrounding the gaoling mountain in the area to create smooth bright and literally luminescent pottery. The secret of this great invention was closely guarded for centuries.