The Chinese potter : a practical history of Chinese ceramics
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The Chinese potter : a practical history of Chinese ceramics
Phaidon, 1989
3rd ed
Available at 4 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-284) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
China has the longest and most highly developed ceramic tradition in the world, encompassing early Neolithic earthenwares, the finely glazed stoneware pieces of the Song period - widely regarded as among the greatest ceramics ever produced and years' worth of Imperial patronage and export ware for the new markets of the West.
Margaret Medley's classic groundbreaking study is the first to bring a practical approach to the study of Chinese pottery. She makes full use of archaeological reports to show how differing geographical areas, materials and developing technologies all shaped the evolution of Chinese ceramics. Her revolutionary insights, along with an astute critical judgement in the field of art history itself, combine to form a definitive but approachable account that has profoundly influenced the way in which Chinese pottery is studied.
Long out of print but always in demand, this work has now been reissued once again in paperback, making it easily accessible to a new generation of readers.
Table of Contents
- The basic technology
- pre-Han unglazed earthenware
- glazed ware from Shang to Han
- the Northern and Southern Dynasties
- new inspiration in T'ang
- North China from the 10th to the 14th century
- South China from the 10th to the 14th century
- the last great innovation
- imperial patronage
- popular taste and new markets
- technical virtuosity.
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