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Ceramics is a traditional Chinese handcraft with a long
history. The best pottery-making centers are Yixing in Jiangsu Province,
Shiwan in Guangdong Province, and Luoyang in Henan Province. Luoyang’s tri-colored
pottery in Tang style is known throughout the world. Yixing’s pottery is
mostly made for everybody use and is especially known for its purplish
brown, glazed, polychrome and refined products. Objects of art, figurines in
particular, are the forte of ceramics of Shiwan. Luoyang’s tri-colored
pottery, glazed red , green and white, made a name for itself as early as
the Tang Dynasty. Famous Chinese porcelains include celadon ware from
Longquan of Zhejiang Province; the Ru-style porcelain ware (glazed grayish
blue with a jade-like material) from Linru, and the highly decorate
Jun-style ware of Yuxian County of Henan Province; and products from
Tangshan and Xuanhua of Hebei Province. None of these porcelain-making
places, however, rival the fame of Jingdezhen, the ‘the Capital of Chinese
Porcelain-making Industry’, and famille-rose, blue-and-white, eggshell-thin,
and exquisite porcelains are its trademark products. |
