Chinese Ceramic Artists

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

Chinese ceramic artists.

Chinese ceramics show a continuous development since pre dynastic times and are one of the most significant forms of chinese art and ceramics globally. 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. As an art form only ceramics cover the entire forty five century span of chinese history. 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.

Earthenware stoneware and porcelain particularly those made in china. Neolithic sung dynasty 6000 b c. 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. 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 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. Chinese ceramic ware is an art form that has been developing since the neolithic period. Chinese pottery objects made of clay and hardened by heat. Nowhere in the world has pottery assumed such importance as in china and the influence of chinese porcelain on later european pottery has been profound.

This department offers great masterpieces of chinese art and antiques for auction. The first pottery was made during the palaeolithic era. Famed for its delicacy and intricacy the tradition of ceramic ware and porcelain has been ingrained in the development of chinese culture. Chinese porcelain artists and marks on dated porcelain.