The remarkable selections presented in this volume which include both familiar examples and unusual ones will acquaint readers with the prodigious accomplishments of chinese ceramicists from.
Chinese ceramics the met.
10 treasures from the metropolitan museum of art s collection of chinese ceramics.
The first pottery was made during the palaeolithic era.
Excavated examples found at various sites throughout iraq serve as evidence of the popularity of these wares at the abbasid court.
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This new installment in the successful how to read series enlightens readers on chinese ceramics of all kinds using highlights from the outstanding collection of the metropolitan museum of art as a teaching tool.
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More than 700 chinese ceramics come to auction at christie s new york sold to benefit the museum s acquisitions fund.
Accessible to a general audience and written by an expert on the subject this book explains and interprets 40 masterworks of.
Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.
Founded in 1870 in new york the metropolitan museum of art is one of the world s largest and finest art museums.
The metropolitan museum of art attracts some five million people a year.
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.
Bowl with cobalt blue inscriptions chinese stonepaste and porcelain ceramics of the tang period 618 907 were exported in quantity to western asia in the mid eighth and ninth centuries.