Ancient Chinese Ceramic Pottery

Ancient potteryin china dates back to paleolithic culture.

Ancient chinese ceramic pottery.

These two porcelain decoration factories specialized in decorating blank porcelain dinnerware and objects such as the cats flower pots vases candlesticks etc. Chinese ceramic ware is an art form that has been developing since the neolithic period. Earthenware stoneware and porcelain particularly those made in china. Invention of porcelain in china as with many ancient cultures the production of earthenware vessels from clay goes back a very long way in the case of china at least 8 000 years.

The first potterywas made during the palaeolithicera. By the time of the eastern han dynasty ad 25 220 these early glazed ceramic wares had developed into porcelain which chinese defined as high fired ware. That fragments of xianrendong cave pottery jiangxi province had been carbon dated to 18 000 bce making them the oldest known pots in the world. Porcelain was invented in china over a centuries long development period beginning with proto porcelain wares dating from the shang dynasty 1600 1046 bc.

Since the han and tang dynasties porcelain has been exported worldwide. Oldest stone age art the next oldest ceramic. Porcelain is the creative fruit of the working people of ancient china. By 3 500bce distinctive styles and decorations covered amazingly thin ceramic objects.

Chinese pottery also called chinese ceramics objects made of clay and hardened by heat. It promotes economic and cultural exchange between china and the outside world and profoundly influences the traditional culture and lifestyle of people from other countries. The yangshao and longshan cultures. Porcelain is said to date back over 2 000 years and some of the first evidence of porcelain pieces have been traced back to the eastern han dynasty in china.

The porcelain figure are likely to have been made in china and decorated at the overjoy porcelain factory or maybe at ah chou factory the owners of the 2 factories are related. 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 porcelainwares made for the imperial court and for export. At this time celadon china s famous jade green glaze that was often found on the porcelain was very popular.