These are some of the most exquisite and delicate works of art ever created, and the subject of intense admiration for generations of art lovers, collectors, and scholars.
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Excellent thought piece on Chinese ceramics,
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Kelun Chen has provided a wonderful essay and overview on Chinese ceramics in this rather tiny volume. The best thing about the book how it demonstrates ways to think about China and its porcelain products from antiquity through the end of the Qing (Ching) Dynasty in 1911. One learns to think of porcelain secondarily in terms of period, but primarily in terms of kiln sites, clay, glaze and color. This is much the opposite of the beginner's or American antiquarian's (my own) typical tendency. The brief 80-page text is rich with details and insights, many of which are sparsley but adequately illustrated in the accompanying photographs in color and black & white. A book such as this must be evaluated (and "starred") in terms of what it intends to be: in this case a thoughtful overview in limited space, not a reference text. There are no indices of markings or summary observations, and the photographs occur with widely varying proximity to the related text, which fails to indicate the illustration under discussion. It takes only modest effort to find them. But the book still delivers an intelligent and thoughtful discussion that a person can go back to and refer to over time, while studying more advanced, ambitious and comprehensive works. A real bargain, and not necessarily a beginner's book. It will stay in my library on ceramics. For a tiny volume, it is really a five star work, and rated at four here only because of the limitations of space provided by the publication series.
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A very interesting book. Only drawback for me was that I was hoping to get greater information on actual marks of chinese pottery.
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A beautiful and informative book for the library of the connoiseur of Chinese Porcelain.
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The earliest examples of porcelain produced in China were vessels coated with a pale green glaze known as celadon. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
contending colors, underglaze red ware, ding kilns, celadon vessels, celadon ware, mouth rim, overglaze decoration, impressed designs, red glaze, foot rim, black porcelain, regular script, green glaze, yellow glaze, porcelain vessels, white glaze, dragon design, blue glaze, transparent glaze, incised designs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ming Dynasty, Song Dynasty, Qing Dynasty, Northern Song, Yuan Dynasty, Southern Song, Tang Dynasty, Three Kingdoms, Eastern Han, Great Ming, Kin Dynasty New!
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The earliest examples of porcelain produced in China were vessels coated with a pale green glaze known as celadon. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
contending colors, underglaze red ware, ding kilns, celadon vessels, celadon ware, mouth rim, overglaze decoration, impressed designs, red glaze, foot rim, black porcelain, regular script, green glaze, yellow glaze, porcelain vessels, white glaze, dragon design, blue glaze, transparent glaze, incised designs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ming Dynasty, Song Dynasty, Qing Dynasty, Northern Song, Yuan Dynasty, Southern Song, Tang Dynasty, Three Kingdoms, Eastern Han, Great Ming, Kin Dynasty New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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