Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Types of Asian Ceramics

Types of Asian Ceramics

Types of Asian Ceramics


Ancient Nanfeng Kiln - Firing for five hundred years
To open the mysterious mask of an old dragon kiln, to show the legend of an ancient ceramic town, to extend the dragon's life of five hundred years, the history of Nanfeng ancient kiln is worth studying and researching.

It is now the Key Culture Relic Unit of Ancient Kiln in Guangdong Province.
The opening of Nanfeng kiln faces the south. The kiln has a total length of 34.4 meters. There are 29 rows of fire holes (5 for every row) on the kiln.
Shiwan Ceramics


The old Shiwan Ceramic Town at the kilns twenty miles south of the city of Canton in Guangdong province. Shiwan Ceramics was shaped in Tang and Song Dynasty (618-906AD) and flourished in Ming and Qing Dynasty.
The main products such as artistic ceramics, ancient garden ceramics, Spanish-type roof tile, western-style roof tile, stone-resembled tile, stone-porcelain tile, artistic garden tile, etc. are famous worldwide, especially statues. There a professional team of art masters has inherited and developed the outstanding tradition of Shiwan ceramic techniques ranging from lively earthen figures, statues and animals with thick and earthy ceramic glaze, to modern ceramics of plain, elegant and fresh patterns, thus forming its own unique artistic style and making Shiwan ceramic techniques extraordinarily splendid.

Types of Asian Ceramics

The Asian Art Museum is a large world wide known museum which carries some designs made from this ge ware.

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