Chinese ceramics
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pottery and porcelain from China
Key facts
- Branch
- Chinese art
- Years active
- Paleolithic – present (c. 20,000 BCE – present)
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- Bluepot porcelain.jpg
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- facet of
- Chinese art
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- Ceramics of China
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- Category:Chinese porcelain
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Encyclopedic overview
Chinese ceramics are one of the most significant forms of Chinese art and ceramics globally. They 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 the imperial court and for export.
The oldest known pottery in the world was made during the Paleolithic at Xianrendong Cave, Jiangxi Province, China. Chinese ceramics show a continuous development since pre-dynastic times. Porcelain was a Chinese invention and is so identified with China that it is still called "china" in everyday English usage.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chinese ceramics” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.