Chinese Ceramic Forms

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

Chinese ceramic forms.

The first pottery was made during the palaeolithic era. 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 pottery objects made of clay and hardened by heat. The chinese ceramic society the history of chinese pottery and porcelain beijing.

Cultural relics publishing house 2011. The history of chinese ceramics began some eight thousand years ago with the crafting of hand molded earthenware. 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. Chinese ceramic ware is an art form that has been developing since the neolithic period.

The morphology table contains information describing the range of vessel forms and types described by this table. Form is the broadest descriptor while type refines this general classification. Earthenware stoneware and porcelain particularly those made in china. 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.