Zisha clay is rich in hematite, and reveals graceful colours such as copper purple, begonia red and vermillion yellow after...
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The tri-colour pottery industry declined after the Tang dynasty. Although the Song, Liao and Jin dynasties all produced their own...
Artworks usually reflect the craftsmanship and aesthetic taste of their time, whereas Tang tri-colour pottery manifests the strength and self-confidence...
Unpractical Lead Glazed Pottery Tang tri-colour pottery is a type of low-temperature lead glazed pottery. It is so named because...
The lavish burial customof Han waned in the following Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern dynasties. However, the fashion of using...
The Han rulers carried on the systems of Qin. However, at the first few decades of the dynasty, due to...
After the unification of China, Qinshihuang (first emperor of the Qin Dynasty)gathered all resources of the nation to build his...
Tomb figurines are statues made in forms of human beings and animals to be buried in tombs to accompany the...
While painted pottery was popular in the mid and upper reaches of Yellow River, in the lower reaches a special...
To put it simple, painted pottery refers to pottery decorated with painted patterns, and its making methods have been mentioned...
Making a pottery is not only a practical process, but also revelation of ancient people's spiritual world. It is a...
As raw material of pottery, the magic properties of clay were discovered by people at very early age: it becomes...
Almost every invention in ancient China is related to a sage legend. For remote ancestors living on raw meat and...
The emergence of pottery in ancient China took place in dawn of the agriculture age approximately ten thousand years ago，which...
The number of both painters and painting works of figure painting in Qing dynasty was smaller than other painting sort....
Flower-and-bird painting gained great achievements in Qing dynasty. Painters learned from both ancient painting tradition and western painting skills. The...
Chinese painting history entered a new era when it came to Qing dynasty.On the one hand，some painters were really conservative...
In Ming dynasty, as figure painting could be used to serve the emperors directly, it was considered as one of...
Flower-and-bird paintings in Ming dynasty were more diversified and had moreachievements than landscape paintings. At the beginning of Ming dynasty,...
Compared with previous dynasties，Ming dynasty had more variety of painting schools.At the beginning of this dynasty，although rulers did not set...