Chinese Ceramics The Met

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.

Chinese ceramics the met.

The metropolitan museum of art attracts some five million people a year. 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. The first pottery was made during the palaeolithic era. Founded in 1870 in new york the metropolitan museum of art is one of the world s largest and finest art museums.

Spanning five millennia the metropolitan museum s collection of chinese ceramics represents a great diversity of materials shapes and subjects. 10 treasures from the metropolitan museum of art s collection of chinese ceramics. Jul 6 2020 explore juliana yuan s board yuan ceramics on pinterest. The remarkable selections presented in this volume which include both familiar examples and unusual ones will acquaint readers with the prodigious accomplishments of chinese ceramicists from.

Excavated examples found at various sites throughout iraq serve as evidence of the popularity of these wares at the abbasid court. See more ideas about ceramics chinese ceramics chinese pottery. Accessible to a general audience and written by an expert on the subject this book explains and interprets 40 masterworks of. 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.

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