Chinese Porcelain Square Ceramics

Some chinese antiques porcelain marks or pottery marks contain dates of the chinese 60 year cyclic calendar but these are actually quite rare cyclic calendar dates started to appear mainly on qianjiang style dated porcelain in the second half of the 19th century.

Chinese porcelain square ceramics.

The first pottery was made during the palaeolithic era. Those mixed materials are heated in a kiln at 1200 1400 celsius degrees. In the world of ming and qing dynasty art knowing how to look at a reign mark is a key asset for any collector specialist or enthusiast to correctly identify the date and the value of a piece of chinese porcelain. Reign marks should be studied alongside the many different variations of hallmarks auspicious marks potters marks and symbols that you find on the bases of chinese porcelain throughout the ages.

As a general rule chinese marks are more regular with mostly six or four character put inside a round or square frame. But these are not marks proper but rather part of the signatures of porcelain artists. Fine antique chinese famille rose square vase qianlong period chinese antique. Porcelain is a ceramic material discovered by the chinese han people it is made by heating raw materials such as.

A useful reference book is the handbook of marks on chinese ceramics gerald davison london 1994. Free shipping on many items. Decorated with tian an men square and hua biao surrounded by a group of sun flowers. There was a brief time during the kangxi period in 1667 when the emperor issued an edict forbidding the use of his reign mark on porcelain in case the ceramics were smashed and discarded.

Reign marks can be found on chinese ceramics mainly from the early ming dynasty 15 th century through to the qing dynasty 1644. Kaolin clay mineral pottery stones feldspars and quartz. Text on balloons with ribbons are chairman mao lives long life the communist party lives long life and mao zhu xi wan sui chairman mao s. 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.

Porcelain vase made in jingdezhen in 1968 to mark the chinese cultural revolution led by chairman mao. The marks listed below are grouped as far as was possible in a logical order with similar signs graphics shapes etc grouped together. The most common marks on porcelain tend to be written in underglaze blue within a double circle. Chinese marks more regular as a rule.