Chinese Ceramics The Met

More than 700 chinese ceramics come to auction at christie s new york sold to benefit the museum s acquisitions fund.

Chinese ceramics the met.

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. Spanning five millennia the metropolitan museum s collection of chinese ceramics represents a great diversity of materials shapes and subjects. 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. A handbook of chinese ceramics user review not available book verdict.

Chinese ceramics show a continuous development since pre dynastic times and are one of the most significant forms of chinese art and ceramics globally. See more ideas about ceramics chinese ceramics chinese pottery. The first pottery was made during the palaeolithic era. The metropolitan museum of art attracts some five million people a year.

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. Founded in 1870 in new york the metropolitan museum of art is one of the world s largest and finest art museums. Excavated examples found at various sites throughout iraq serve as evidence of the popularity of these wares at the abbasid court. 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.

10 treasures from the metropolitan museum of art s collection of chinese ceramics. This revised and enlarged edition of a 1975 handbook to the metropolitan museum collections begins with the neolithic period and continues through the qing touching briefly on the 20th century.