Chinese Ceramic Forms

As an art form only ceramics cover the entire forty five century span of chinese history.

Chinese ceramic forms.

The chinese ceramic society the history of chinese pottery and porcelain beijing. Chinese ceramic ware is an art form that has been developing since the neolithic period. Form is the broadest descriptor while type refines this general classification. The first pottery was made during the palaeolithic era.

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 ceramics show a continuous development since pre dynastic times and are one of the most significant forms of chinese art and ceramics globally. The morphology table contains information describing the range of vessel forms and types described by this table.

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. Cultural relics publishing house 2011. 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. Neolithic sung dynasty 6000 b c.