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Exquisite
Ceramics Collection from Jiangxi Provincial Museum
The ceramic techniques have a very long history in Jiangxi province. In
the early Neolithic Age, the primitive people of Xianren Cave in Wannian
County had fired proto-pottery, which is one of the most ancient pottery have
been found. In Shang and Zhou Dynasties, besides all kinds of geometrical
design-stamped hard pottery, proto-celadon began to fire and being the
earliest ancestor of modern porcelain. The fire techniques of proto-celadon
made further promotion in the Warring State Period. The porcelain appearance
have been divorced from primeval state and the mature porcelain emerged in Han
and Jin Dynasties. From Tang Dynasty, there is a forest of kilns scattered
across Jiangxi province, especially the well-known Hongzhou kiln of Fengcheng
City, which is one of the six famous celadon kilns in China. After Song
Dynasty, a lot of famous kilns emerged, such as baise kiln in Nanfeng City,
Jizhou kiln in Jizhou City and Qilizhen kiln in Ganzhou City. Especially, the
ceramic production of Jingdezhen City appeared the unprecedented new situation
regardless the fire scale, technical skills and the product quantities, the
porcelain industry made the graveness progress and outstanding achieve in Yuan
Dynasty. "Fouliang Porcelain Bureau" set up in the early Yuan Dynasty was the
only porcelain management organization in the country at that time, and
Jingdezhen City had become the porcelain center of the country. The porcelain
industry of Jingdezhen was also flourishing in Ming and Qing Dynasties, it
represents the tallest level of Chinese ancient porcelain fire techniques,
especially in Kangxi, yongzheng, qianlong regins of Qing Dynasty, the wares
have good quality, diverse figure, colorful glaze and abundant decorations,
which enjoy Jingdezhen fleeting fame in the time.
Hundreds of the precious ceramics selected from different periods display
here is the miniature of the brilliant ancient ceramic history of Jiangxi
province, which is good enough to systematically reflect the art achievement
of Jiangxi ceramic though the ages.
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