Chinese Ceramic Artists

The history of chinese ceramics began some eight thousand years ago with the crafting of hand molded earthenware.

Chinese ceramic artists.

This department offers great masterpieces of chinese art and antiques for auction. His is a work in progress attempting to chart chinese porcelain artists of the late qing dynasty and also an attempt to chart porcelain pieces with dates in their inscription. This page is a source table that includes both all dated items we have so far. Chinese pottery objects made of clay and hardened by heat.

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. Under the reigns of kangxi and his successors yongzheng and qianlong qing imperial porcelain workshops found inspiration from revered art objects throughout the history of china including ming ceramics and combined it with ground breaking developments in porcelain production to produce a vast quantity of high quality wares that were both. Famed for its delicacy and intricacy the tradition of ceramic ware and porcelain has been ingrained in the development of chinese culture.

Chinese ceramic ware is an art form that has been developing since the neolithic period. As an art form only ceramics cover the entire forty five century span of chinese history. More than any other material fired clay has served the needs and satisfied the aesthetic tastes of all segments of society in nearly every culture on earth. Chinese porcelain artists and marks on dated porcelain.

Sales include a wide range of works such as ceramics jades furniture bronzes sculptures paintings and clocks from the neolithic period to the qing dynasties. 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. Named after the city it was mainly sourced from the chinese art of making pottery ware has been very much envied and admired internationally since its discovery by the western world. Chinese ceramics show a continuous development since pre dynastic times and are one of the most significant forms of chinese art and ceramics globally.