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Chinese ceramics show a continuous development since pre-dynastic times and the first pottery was made during the Palaeolithic era. Porcelain was a Chinese invention and is so identified with China that it is still called "china" in everyday English usage. Pair of famille rose vases with landscapes of the four seasons, 1760–1795
Most Chinese bronze vessels fall into two categories, food vessels or wine vessels. [13] Hu vessels were used for holding wine, but not as drinking vessels. [ 13 ] By the Zhou period, hu were one of the main vessels in use. [ 14 ]
The "mallet" vase was a special favourite at Longquan, often with handles formed as animals or dragons. [20] Funerary vases, made in pairs, also often feature charmingly stylized animals, usually tigers and dragons, curled around the shoulders of the vessel. These were used in southern Chinese burial custom to store provisions for the afterlife ...
Vase with landscape, mid-century Dragon dish, Late Ming, c. 1640. Transitional porcelain is Jingdezhen porcelain, manufactured at China's principle ceramic production area, in the years during and after the transition from Ming to Qing. As with several previous changes of dynasty in China, this was a protracted and painful period of civil war.
Móu (鍪): A vase with two handles. Vessels of this type are classed as hú (壺) in the Xiqing gujian. Píng (瓶): Tall vase with a long slender neck opening up to a narrow mouth. Pǒu (瓿, pronounced bù in China): A small bronze wèng (甕). Wèng (瓮 or 甕): Round mouthed, round bellied jar with no foot for holding water or wine. Now ...
Small Guan bowl on legs (some 3 inches across), with pronounced type 3 glaze crackle Mallet-shaped vase, Guan ware, 12th–13th century, with type 1 crackle. Guan ware or Kuan ware (Chinese: 官窯; pinyin: guān yáo; Wade–Giles: kuan-yao) is one of the Five Famous Kilns of Song dynasty China, making high-status stonewares, whose surface decoration relied heavily on crackled glaze, randomly ...