Chinese Ceramics Museum London

Visit the china and south asia gallery.

Chinese ceramics museum london.

Highlights include the collections of italian renaissance maiolica chinese porcelain dutch delft british and european porcelain 19th century art pottery. Visit the chinese jade gallery. The history of chinese ceramics began some eight thousand years ago with the crafting of hand molded earthenware. The foundation s main purpose is to promote the study and teaching of chinese art and culture.

Museum of london. The collections are particularly strong in international contemporary studio ceramics european porcelain and pottery from 1500 onwards and ceramics from china japan and the middle east. Initially situated in chancery lane in the city of london it held a large stock of oriental art but also dealt in arms and armour paintings and continental porcelain. The business was founded in 1925 by samuel sydney marchant 1897 1975.

Chinese objects have been a part of the british museum since its establishment based on the collection of sir hans sloane. Chinese ceramics by far the most advanced in the world were made for the imperial court the domestic market or for export. Porcelain was first produced in china around ad 600. The collection consists of some 1 700 pieces of song yuan ming and qing ceramics mostly porcelain from the 10th century to the 18th high quality chinese taste song ming and qing ceramics as the british museum puts it.

Chinese ceramic ware is an art form that has been developing since the neolithic period. Daniel graduated from the harrow studio ceramics course in 1991 then had a shared workspace space at kate malone s balls pond studios in london before returning to work as a technician and studio manager on the harrow ceramics course. The collection has since grown to about 23 000 objects that span the neolithic age to the present. 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.

Visit the chinese ceramics gallery. List of museum searches primarily for oriental ceramics each of these museums contain substantial amounts of early ceramics. The chinese jade gallery showcases a stone prized by the chinese as the most precious of all materials for its magical properties and beauty. There s also a gallery dedicated to ceramics featuring 1 700 of the museum s finest examples a discipline at which china is arguably the most advanced in the world.