Chinese Ceramics Database Or Archive Or Collection Or Links

National palace museum in taipei taiwan the chinese ceramics and art in the museum includes one of the largest collection of imperial porcelain in the world this means a good part of the actual imperial collection.

Chinese ceramics database or archive or collection or links.

John alexander pope illustrates several. Li zhiyan is senior research fellow at the national museum of china and former vice president of the association of chinese ancient ceramics virginia l. 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 focus of the chalre collection is chinese and asian tradeware ceramics in other words ceramics that were traded throughout asia.

The collection was removed from the palace in the 1920s for security. Photo from author s collection. At the end of the important trade routes with china the topkapi palace museum possibly houses the largest collection of song and yuan ceramics outside china. A guide to buying chinese ceramics by leila de vos european head of chinese works of art at christie s.

Similarly the four season flower ceramics produced in jingdezhen are also listed as such in the merchant store inventories. The history of chinese ceramics began some eight thousand years ago with the crafting of hand molded earthenware. The national palace museum in taipei houses mainly art and artifacts accumulated by emperors over time. Tradeware ceramics porcelain stoneware and earthenware tell the story of how the peoples of asia forged social and commercial ties with each other during ancient times.

The most important thing is to buy what you love this should always be the main driving force behind your. Yeo and jean martin in chinese blue and white ceramics p. Bower is an adjunct associate professor at the university of the arts philadelphia he li is associate curator of chinese art asian art museum of san francisco david ake sensabaugh is the ruth and bruce dayton curator of asian art at the yale. Winter green cups displayed at the jingdezhen jiayang ceramics company.

The focus of the chalre collection is chinese and asian tradeware ceramics in other words ceramics that were traded throughout asia. There are a number of things to look for when starting to collect chinese ceramics. Tradeware ceramics porcelain stoneware and earthenware tell the story of how the peoples of asia forged social and commercial ties with each other during ancient times. Addeddate 2014 02 06 17 47 03 identifier ahandbookofchineseceramics identifier ark ark 13960 t6rz1s019 ocr abbyy finereader 9 0 pages 383 ppi 400.

Choy 2014 interpreting overseas chinese ceramics page 7 figure 6. Subsequently it entered the meiyintang collection and then was published in 1978 by s t.