Ancient chinese pottery

Feb 4, 2019- Ancient Chinese Neolithic Pottery painted with brown swirl and dots motif, Neolithic period ca. 3500 BC.

Chinese pottery, objects made of clay and hardened by heat: earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain, particularly those made in China. Nowhere in the world has pottery assumed such importance as in China, and the influence of Chinese porcelain on later European pottery has been profound. The earliest

Dragons are everywhere in China. On Ming vases, beautifully carved from red lacquer, in gold and diamond jewelry, enameled in cloisonné bowls and boxes, as friezes on buildings both ancient and mo…

This heavily potted jar with high-shouldered ovoid body, which tapers sharply inward toward a slightly flaring foot, has a short neck with thickened mouth rim. It is painted in blackish brown pigment against a cream-colored slip under a translucent glaze

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Chinese emerald green shiwan pottery teapot, Chinese, Qing Dynasty, late 19th century. In the shape of a traditional Chinese water carrying bucket with a pouring spout, carrying handle and a small lid. The teapot measures 8 1/4"-inches high x 8"-inches in diameter. An illustration of a almost similar teapot can be found on pg. 51, plate number 12 of "Shiwan Ceramics: Beauty, Color and Passion". By Fredrikke S.Scollard and Terese Tse Bartholomew, Chinese Cultural Center of San Francisco…

This early Iranian made beaker created in Susa (modern Shush in Iran) which is now in Louvre Museum of Paris, depicts a bold, minimalist and stylized graphic design. On the rim of the beaker long necked cranes are drawn, and beneath them there are racing hounds that are simplified into some horizontal streaks. The design of an ibex (a mountain goat) with few sweeping curves constitutes the main motif of this ancient design. (5000 BC) Painted pottery urn (gang), Yangshao Culture (c. 3500-3000…

A stunning and massive Chinese high fired gray pottery jar of remarkable size and girth, with impressed geometric design, Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 AD), Zhejiang Province, China. The coil-formed massive high fired gray pottery storage jar of elegant proportions, with a wide mouth with an out-turned lip and even wider shoulders, tapering downwards to a slightly concave foot. The voluptuous body decorated simply with a repeating geometric design. The high fired gray pottery body visible…