Chinese Ceramics Art Exhibition

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

Chinese ceramics art exhibition.

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. Chinese ceramics show a continuous development since pre dynastic times and are one of the most significant forms of chinese art and ceramics globally. This exhibition comprising works from lacma s permanent collection presents an introduction to chinese ceramics with examples from c. Highlights include the collections of italian renaissance maiolica chinese porcelain dutch delft british and european porcelain 19th century art pottery.

Please contact katharine vann gallery coordinator for any questions on catalogue orders. The first pottery was made during the palaeolithic era. 1552 just opened today at the los angeles county museum of art lacma. This striking vessel was made only shortly after the first appearance of blue and white.

Visit the chinese jade gallery. Where the truth lies. Visit the chinese ceramics gallery. All orders placed in the coming weeks will be processed upon china institute s reopening to be confirmed according to guidelines laid out by the cdc.

For the health and safety of our team we will be temporarily suspending all catalogue shipments. The first section provides a survey of the technical development of chinese ceramics including the three basic types of clay earthenware stoneware and. The art of qiu ying. Visit the china and south asia gallery.

The color of the glaze ranges from grey to olive to brown. A new exhibition featuring the ming dynasty painter qiu ying ca. One of the rarest chinese ceramics in lacma s collection is the mid 14th century porcelain jar with pair of peacocks among floral scrolls. Chinese objects have been a part of the british museum since its establishment based on the collection of sir hans sloane.

The collection has since grown to about 23 000 objects that span the neolithic age to the present. 2500 bc neolithic period to the 19th century. The collections are particularly strong in international contemporary studio ceramics european porcelain and pottery from 1500 onwards and ceramics from china japan and the middle east. There are two primary categories of chinese ceramics low temperature fired pottery or táo 陶 about 950 1200 and high temperature fired porcelain or cí 瓷 about 1250 1400.

Firing temperature is thought to have been about 1 000 c or slightly higher. Few artists in chinese history have proven as enigmatic as qiu ying whose life and art reveal a series of paradoxes. This department offers great masterpieces of chinese art and antiques for auction. Chinese ceramic ware is an art form that has been developing since the neolithic period.