An illustrated brief history of Chinese porcelain : history - culture - aesthetics / by Yang Guimei [translation by Alison Hardie].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guimei, Yang, author.

Contributor:

Hardie, Alison, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Porcelain, Chinese--Song-Yuan dynasties, 960-1368.

Porcelain, Chinese.

Porcelain, Chinese--Song-Yuan dynasties.

Porcelain, Chinese--Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912.

Porcelain, Chinese--Ming-Qing dynasties.

Physical Description:

128 pages : color illustrations, map ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Better Link Press, [2021]

Summary:

"One of the treasures of Chinese civilization, porcelain was first fashioned in the five great kiln-sites of the Song dynasty (1960-1279) around AD1000, although it's origins lie as far back as the early ceramics of the second millennium BC. Porcelain evolved to form the splendid blue-and-white of the Yuan (1279-1368), before reaching its aesthetic and technical apogee in the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). This book explains the development of porcelain from early times and the most notable characteristics of porcelain in different periods; it outlines the rise and fall of the great production centers, and describes the influence of social and economic development, political change, and non-Chinese cultures on the features and uses of porcelain. It brings out the cultural implications and the aesthetic and philosophical concepts which underlie the porcelain we know today"--Book flap

Contents:

From earthenware to porcelain

The age of celadon and white-ware

Song porcelain: expression through form and glaze color

Yuan porcelain: appreciation of blue and white

Official versus unofficial: porcelain of the Ming Dynasty

Qing porcelain: the ultimate in skill

Flowers of a foreign land: export porcelain of the Ming and Qing

Appendices.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 124) and index.

ISBN:

9781602201736

1602201730

OCLC:

1191847667