Chinese pottery: References & Edit History
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One of the best general works is still W.B. Honey, The Ceramic Art of China, and Other Countries of the Far East (1945, reissued 1954). R.L. Hobson, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, 2 vol. (1915, reprinted in 1 vol., 1976), though old, is still consulted, and his The Wares of the Ming Dynasty (1923, reprinted 1978) and The Later Ceramic Wares of China (1925), are scholarly works, well illustrated for their period. Chinese Art, 4 vol. in 5 (1960β65), written by a number of internationally known experts and published by University Books, covers the whole field of Chinese art, including pottery and porcelain, and is of considerable value to the student. Other general works include Yutaka Mino, Freedom of Clay and Brush Through Seven Centuries in Northern China (1980), an exhibition catalog; Suzanne G. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, rev. and enlarged ed. (1989); Margaret Medley, The Chinese Potter: A Practical History of Chinese Ceramics, 3rd ed. (1989, reissued 1998); Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, 2nd ed. (2005); George Kuwayama (ed.), New Perspectives on the Art of Ceramics in China (1992); and He Li, Chinese Ceramics: The New Standard Guide (1996, reissued 2006; also published as Chinese Ceramics: A New Comprehensive Survey from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1996).
The earliest Chinese wares are discussed in G.E. Wu (Chin-ting Wu), Prehistoric Pottery in China (1938); Basil Gray, Early Chinese Pottery and Porcelain (1952); A.L. Hetherington, The Early Ceramic Wares of China (1922), and Chinese Ceramic Glazes, 2nd rev. ed. (1948); and William Watson, Pre-Tang Ceramics of China: Chinese Pottery from 4000 BC to 600 AD (1991). Books on specific periods include Soame Jenyns, Ming Pottery and Porcelain, 2nd ed. (1988), and Later Chinese Porcelain, 4th ed. (1991); Basil Gray, Sung Porcelain and Stoneware (1984); Mary Tregear, Song Ceramics (1982); Rose Kerr and Ian Thomas, Song Dynasty Ceramics (2004); William Watson, Tang and Liao Ceramics (1984); and K.S. Lo, Lai Suk Yee, and Wing Chi Ip, The Stonewares of Yixing: From the Ming Period to the Present Day (1986). Wanda Garnsey and Rewi Alley, China, Ancient Kilns and Modern Ceramics: A Guide to the Modern Potteries (1983); and Suzanne Kotz (ed.), Imperial Taste: Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation (1989), an exhibition catalogue from one of the worldβs premiere collections, are also of interest.
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Corrected display issue. | Aug 24, 2022 | ||
| Invalidated site: Gotheborg.com - Chinese Porcelain. | Feb 06, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: China Online Museum - Chinese Ceramics. | Jun 01, 2011 | ||
| Added image of two Chinese funerary urns, stoneware with qingbai glaze, Yuan dynasty, 1279&ndahs;1368. | Sep 30, 2010 | ||
| Added images of a late 6th-century horse figurine and an 8th-century Tang dynasty vase. | Jul 12, 2010 | ||
| New article added. | Sep 03, 2009 |