Chinese Ceramics Museum

The foundation s main purpose is to promote the study and teaching of chinese art and culture.

Chinese ceramics museum.

Porcelain was first produced in china around ad 600. Chinese ceramics from the los angeles county museum of art comprising works from lacma s permanent collection presents an introduction to chinese ceramics from c. The first pottery was made during the palaeolithic era. A ceramics museum is a museum wholly or largely devoted to ceramics usually ceramic art its collections may also include glass and enamel but typically concentrate on pottery including porcelain most national collections are in a more general museum covering all of the arts or just the decorative arts however there are a number of specialized ceramics museums with some focusing on the.

The collection consists of some 1 700 pieces of song yuan ming and qing ceramics mostly porcelain from the 10th century to the 18th high quality chinese taste song ming and qing ceramics as the british museum puts it. Primal beings ghosts and human dummies. Alyson brandes is a graduate of chapman university and a 2020 getty marrow undergraduate intern at amoca. Chinese ceramic ware is an art form that has been developing since the neolithic period.

The collection of chinese blue and white porcelain was established by robert murray bell and ann walker bell. Chinese ceramics show a continuous development since pre dynastic times and are one of the most significant forms of chinese art and ceramics globally. Jingdezhen is supposed to be the most important city for chinese ceramics porcelain of the country. 2500 bc neolithic period to the 19th century.

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. The history of chinese ceramics began some eight thousand years ago with the crafting of hand molded earthenware. Since it s a chinese ceramics museum the exhibits in the international gallery seemed out of place and frankly i wasn t particularly interested in seeing ceramics from my home country or the vast majority of exhibits korea and japan. International recognized and admired this is a recently open museum.

The exhibition explores chinese cosmology religion history and society through a survey of the technical development of chinese ceramics. This was the first donation of asian ceramics to the gardiner museum. The international gallery which takes up most of the second floor is huge and i really don t understand. It has since been expanded through a significant gift from janice gross stein and susan gross solomon in memory of anne romoff gross.

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. Sir percival david mostly collected objects of imperial quality or of traditional chinese taste. There are some other museum with similar names jingdezhen ceramics but this is the most important and where some of the most important pieces from the small museum the.