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428: 33: 444: 404: 416: 392: 889:: "These funerary urns are decorated with two ‘animals of the four directions’, called 'siling 四靈' in Chinese. The White Tiger of the West is pursuing a dog and the Green Dragon of the East is chasing a flaming pearl. The birds on the covers may allude to the Red Bird of the South; but the symbol of the north, a tortoise with a snake, is not present. In China, artists decorated coffins and tombs with these creatures from the Han dynasty (206 BC–AD 220) onwards. These jars stored provisions for the afterlife such as grain and are part of local southern burial practice." 120: 1391: 380: 575: 128: 1878: 668:, suggesting that pattern books were supplied from the centre by court artists. Shapes included large flat dishes that were very difficult to fire. By around the mid-15th century the court ceased its orders, and the decline of the kilns resumed. By the late Ming few kilns survived, and they mostly produced utilitarian wares such as tiles and water pots, as the area continues to do. 361:
dragons. Funerary vases, made in pairs, also often feature charmingly stylized animals, usually tigers and dragons, curled around the shoulders of the vessel. These were used in southern Chinese burial custom to store provisions for the afterlife. Another distinct Longquan style was a dish with two or more fishes in low
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The Southern Song period saw the finest quality, and a great range of colours, as well as a great expansion of production. A count in 1988 by a Chinese archaeologist of the starts of new kilns gave 39 from the Northern Song, 61 from the Southern Song, and over 70 from the Yuan. The percentage figures
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A story repeated in many sources from the Yuan onwards, with uncertain significance, tells of two brothers called Zhang, both Longquan potters, perhaps in the Southern Song, though this is unclear. The elder brother developed a very special type of ware; rightly or wrongly the later sources say this
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shapes, which were considered appropriate to religious functions, though these lacked the complex surface decoration of the bronze originals. These were also exported in great numbers and, at least in South-East Asian countries such as Japan and Korea, these associations could also be appreciated by
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The glaze is made opaque by the presence of plant ash and tiny bubbles of gas, which give a lustrous effect. With the whiter body clays pieces may be translucent. The pronounced reddish colour of unglazed areas comes from the end of the firing, as the heated clay comes in contact with fresh air let
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were always used, and the longer kilns, with up to twelve chambers, might have been able to fire as many as 25,000 pieces at a time. The firing temperature was probably between 1,180 °C and 1,280 °C, with the range over 1,250 °C giving the best green or blue colours. In some cases at
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decoration is left unglazed (see below and illustration). This distinguishes Longquan from Northern Celadons. However, this may not be the case in pieces made from the most whitish, porcellanous, material, where the fired body may also "be translucent if thin enough". In Western sources, individual
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Province. Overall a total of some 500 kilns have been discovered, making the Longquan celadon production area one of the largest historical ceramic producing areas in China. "Longquan-type" is increasingly preferred as a term, in recognition of this diversity, or simply "southern celadon", as there
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In general, Longquan decoration tends to project from the body, and the effects that Northern Celadon gets from glaze pooling over shallow carving into the body are less common. Earlier pieces are content with subtle glaze effects, often accentuated by the glaze thinning over small ridges or ribs,
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The Longquan celadons were among the finest of a range of celadon wares produced in China, and led stylistic and technical developments. The celadons were produced in a range of shades of colour, centred on olive-green, but extending to greenish blues (regarded as desirable, but less common) and
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From the twentieth century native and foreign enthusiasts and scholars have visited the kiln sites and excavated there. Among modern Chinese scholars, the main kiln sites were first systematically investigated by Chen Wanli in 1928 and 1934, after the sites had been excavated by speculators and
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Most shapes are simple but very elegant. The size and decoration of larger fine pieces increases from the Yuan onwards, with some very large vases and lidded wine jars being made by the 14th century. The "mallet" vase was a special favourite at Longquan, often with handles formed as animals or
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A very few pieces reached Europe by trade or diplomatic gifts from Islamic countries, and were sometimes given elaborate metalwork mounts, turning them into goblets. Only three surviving Chinese ceramic pieces can be documented as reaching Europe before 1500. Of these, the earliest is the
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In the Northern Song period the Dayao (大窯) kiln site near Longquan city alone produced wares at twenty-three separate kilns; with Jincun nearby, these appear to have been the largest kiln complexes, and produced the best wares. The era of greatest ceramic production was not until the
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Unlike Northern Celadon, Longquan ware does not seem to have been used by the imperial court under the Song, although Longquan kilns were used to make the "official" Guan ware, apparently when the Guan kilns could not cope with orders. An important market seems to have been the
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brown. The wares are hardly ever painted; decoration comes from the vessel shape and carved or incised designs in the body. Shapes were originally mostly simple, allowing the glaze colour to create the main effect of a piece, but in later periods raised decoration was common.
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Both Chinese and Japanese tradition have developed a range of terms to describe the glaze colours and qualities; some of the Japanese ones have the advantage of being anchored to specific pieces in Japan. The term
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Krahl and Harrison-Hall, 13; Gompertz, 158 has "over 200 kiln sites" showing the pace of Chinese archaeology in recent decades, and perhaps counting groups rather than individual kilns; Medley, 147, on their
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The body of Longquan celadon, as seen in fragments under glaze, varies from "a heavy, compact grey stoneware to an almost white porcellaneous material", but where fired at the surface this turns to a typical
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while later pieces have more elaborate floral scrolls or animals in relief. Religious figurines and shrines were rare before the Yuan, and never a large part of production; as in
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There were also large quantities exported west to the Islamic world, and one of the most important collections today is the 1,300 pieces surviving from the collection of the
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Compare the text and captions at Clunas 284-285, fig. 250 is called "stoneware", fig. 251 (the Katzenelnbogen bowl) "porcelain". Both are Longquan celadon of 1400-50.
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A key event in the rise of Longquan celadon was the flight of the remaining Northern Song court to the south, after they lost control of the north in the disastrous
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and Europe that the pieces would break or change colour if poison was placed on them. Fragments have also been found along the East African coast, as far south as
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wares. These are similar in many respects, but with significant differences to Longquan-type celadon, and their production rose and declined somewhat earlier.
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pieces are normally classified as stoneware, but some may be called porcelain; material translated from the Chinese is likely to describe all as "porcelain".
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for those still producing in the 20th century were 23%, <10% and <5%, indicating a bubble of over-production, which only the strongest kilns survived.
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class. As well as wares for ordinary use, they were used on altars and sometimes in burials. Many shapes, especially in the early period, were based on
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swimming in the centre, either in biscuit or glazed; these sometimes have holes drilled for metal handles, as mentioned in a late 14th-century source.
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type is from the middle Ming, after the glaze became more transparent. As with other celadons, for the Chinese the similarity of the colour to
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browns. All these colours come from the glaze; the body beneath is sometimes left partly unglazed as part of the decoration, when it fires to a
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Vainker, 110-111, though see Valenstein, 99, and Clunas, 97, 100, 229, where court patronage is said to have ended with the reign of the
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Medley, 147; Grove: "The body of Longquan celadon is a light grey stoneware, sometimes reaching the quality of a pure white porcelain".
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The glaze colours vary across a wide spectrum of greyish to blueish greens, with some yellowish browns as well. The colour comes from
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Quality declined during the 14th century, although initially production and exports continued to grow. By the middle of the century
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together. Templates were used, and sometimes moulds, including two-part moulds, and moulds including decoration. Unglazed
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dish with sprigged fish in biscuit, and effects from glaze collecting in the incised decoration, Yuan, 14th century
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Pair of funerary lidded vases with animals; left, tiger chasing a dog, right, dragon chasing a pearl, Southern Song
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later grouped by Chinese connoisseurs, and are rarely mentioned in early writing on the subject, although in the
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least there appear to have been layers of glaze and also multiple firings to achieve a deeper glaze effect.
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the reliefs over a glazed area before firing, where the surface would be flat in the kiln, or by adding a
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Medley, 115-118; Gompertz, 159, 98-125; for some reason one is typically capitalized and the other not.
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Vainker, 108 (quoted); Clunas, 284-285 refers to celadons as porcelain, but not consistently.
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Vase with unglazed medallions, here using moulds and a resist technique, 14th century.
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Gompertz, 22 quoted; Medley, 146 describes them as "stoneware and porcellanous ware".
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Southern Song Dynasty, 13th Century, Nantoyōsō Collection, Japan, with crackle.
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Longquan celadon enjoyed a final period of high achievement under the early
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coast in 1976, whose cargo included over 9,600 pieces of celadon from the
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of wax or grease before glazing, when the sides of a vase were decorated.
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or greenware, produced from about 950 to 1550. The kilns were mostly in
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Japan was a large-scale and enthusiastic importer, and the beach at
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In traditional Western terms, most celadons are strictly counted as
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reddish brown, seen at the unglazed foot of many pieces, and when
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Chinese Ceramics: Highlights of the Sir Percival David Collection
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in 1433/34, who on his return had it given a cover and mounts in
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porcelain, but the other two are Longquan celadon. In 1487
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The Chinese Potter: A Practical History of Chinese Ceramics
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was also a large number of kilns in north China producing
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in the glaze, but much less than in the closely related
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has a "a faint yellowish-green tone", and is from the
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Traditional Chinese
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青瓷
Simplified Chinese
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin


lung-tsh'wahn
Chinese ceramic
celadon
Lishui
Zhejiang
Fujian
Yaozhou ware
Northern Celadon
Longquan
Northern Song
Hangzhou
Southern Song
Yuan
Ming
Korea
Japan
blue and white porcelain
Jingdezhen
stoneware
pottery

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