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Tradeware ceramics in the Philippines consisted of Chinese, Thai, and Vietnamese porcelain. [1] The materials discovered can be identified as 70-75% Chinese, 22-25% Thai and 5-8% Vietnamese. The wares are named by their place of manufacture, individually by various popular terms and the period in which they were produced. [1]
They 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 imperial court and for export. Chinese ceramics show a continuous development since pre-dynastic times and the first pottery was made during the Palaeolithic era.
Earthenware vessels in the Philippines were formed by two main techniques: paddle and anvil, and coiling and scraping. [2] Although a level of highly skilled craftsmanship is present in the Philippines, no evidence of kilns are found, primarily because the type of clay to be found in the archipelago can only withstand relatively low temperatures of firing.
Second is the destructive capability of the rapid water currents. The area is well-dated due to the presence of Chinese coins and ceramics. This site is considered a major step in discovering the culture of the country as there is little written records and archives about the Philippines and South East Asia in general during the 15th century. [1]
Seal "Meiyintang", carved by the Taiwanese artist Xiao Yu (b. 1947) Object from the Meiyintang Collection at Rietberg Museum The Meiyintang Collection is a privately owned assembly of Chinese ceramics, porcelain and bronzes, which has been hailed as one of the finest private collections of Chinese porcelain in the Western world.
The Society was founded in London in 1921 by a group of collectors and others interested in oriental ceramics. [3] Since then, many notable art historians and collectors have joined the OCS, have given lectures to the Society and have written articles for publication in the annual Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society (TOCS, currently edited by Dr Stacey Pierson). [4]
Qingbai ware (Chinese: 青白; pinyin: qīngbái; lit. 'green-white') is a type of Chinese porcelain produced under the Song dynasty and Yuan dynasty, defined by the ceramic glaze used. [1] Qingbai ware is white with a blue-greenish tint, and is also referred to as Yingqing ("shadow green", although this name appears only to date from the 18th ...
Swatow ware or Zhangzhou ware is a loose grouping of mainly late Ming dynasty Chinese export porcelain wares initially intended for the Southeast Asian market. The traditional name in the West arose because Swatow, or present-day Shantou , was the South Chinese port in Guangdong province from which the wares were thought to have been shipped.