Chinese Ceramic Forms

Chinese ceramics show a continuous development since pre dynastic times and are one of the most significant forms of chinese art and ceramics globally.

Chinese ceramic forms.

The chinese ceramic society the history of chinese pottery and porcelain beijing. 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. Cultural relics publishing house 2011. 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.

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. Form is the broadest descriptor while type refines this general classification. 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.

Chinese pottery objects made of clay and hardened by heat. Chinese ceramic ware is an art form that has been developing since the neolithic period. The history of chinese ceramics began some eight thousand years ago with the crafting of hand molded earthenware. The morphology table contains information describing the range of vessel forms and types described by this table.