TRIBUNE-REVIEW ART CRITIC By Kurt Shaw
Posted on September 7, 2007 - Filed Under Architectural Ceramics, Pottery, Artists & Potters, Antiques & Collectibles | Leave a Comment
Tom Turner is a potter’s potter. He even has a type of clay named after him, “Tom Turner Porcelain,” which he invented and is currently being manufactured by Standard Ceramic Supply Co. of Carnegie.
However, it’s not his clay that has brought this Ohio potter his esteemed reputation, nor the fact that he has taught ceramics […]
Porcelain shard pendant
Posted on September 5, 2007 - Filed Under Repair & Restoration, Porcelain, Antiques & Collectibles | Leave a Comment
P03 - Pendant made of antique Chinese porcelain. For almost 1000 years Chinese porcelain has been shipped and admired all over the world. In recent times some of this has been recovered at excavations and wreck sites. Now a limited number of antique Chinese porcelain shards have been made into unique pendants. The porcelain shards […]
Gotheborg cargo Water dropper, Chinese export porcelain
Posted on September 1, 2007 - Filed Under History, Antiques & Collectibles | Leave a Comment
GBG3 - White porcelain Blanc-de-Chine style miniature Qilin figure.
A hole at the beasts mouth and one at its back makes it possible for this little figure to
function as a water dropper for adding a few drops of water onto a scholars ink cake. At the side,
possible a stand for an inscence stick (”joss stick”).The Gotheborg […]
Porcelain Plate
Posted on September 1, 2007 - Filed Under Design, Ceramic in China, Antiques & Collectibles | Leave a Comment
E18 - Chinese export porcelain plate. Decorated in grisaille and gilt on the rim with a carefully arranged scroll of tendrils, branches, formal leaves and berries in the style of the du Paquier period of Viennese porcelain and in the center a carefully drawn scene of the crucifixation, after a European style drawing or print. […]
Ancient Chinese Art
Posted on August 31, 2007 - Filed Under Article, Museum, Antiques & Collectibles | Leave a Comment
          Perhaps the most important archaeological discovery of the twentieth century was made accidentally in 1974 when farmers digging a well in central China unearthed the first figure in what turned out to be a terra-cotta army near the ancient tomb of Chinas first emperor Qin Shihuang. As excavated today, the site is bigger than a […]
Chinese ‘Beijing Glass’ Vase
Posted on August 30, 2007 - Filed Under Design, Ceramic in China, Ceramic Products, Antiques & Collectibles | Leave a Comment
Chinese ‘Beijing Glass’ Vase
While early Chinese glass was mostly imitating jade and precious stones the golden age of Chinese glass started under Imperial patronage with the establishing of the Qing Imperial Glass House in the Forbidden City in Beijing, in 1696, much inspired by the western miracles shown to the Kangxi Emperor by the Jesuit […]
Neolithic Painted Pottery and Later
Posted on August 30, 2007 - Filed Under Museum, Pottery, Ceramic in China, Ceramic Products, Antiques & Collectibles, Ceramic Plaza&Trade | Leave a Comment
Neolithic Painted Pottery and Later
When thinking about early Chinese pottery the painted pottery of the Yangshao culture (c. 2000 B.C.) as it was discovered by Johan Gunnar Andersson in 1921 has a special position, since this was a groundbreaking find and also the beginning of modern archaeology in China.
In that sense he paved the ground […]
Photograph–meiping: porcelain vase
Posted on August 26, 2007 - Filed Under Museum, Culture&Civilization, Antiques & Collectibles | Leave a Comment
Photograph: meiping: porcelain vase
Meiping porcelain vase with a celadon glaze, decorated with incised floral motifs, from the reign of the Yongzhen emperor (1722–35), Qing dynasty; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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How Porcelains Are Made
Posted on August 24, 2007 - Filed Under Culture&Civilization, Antiques & Collectibles | Leave a Comment
Background
The term porcelain refers to a wide range of ceramic products that have been baked at high temperatures to achieve vitreous, or glassy, qualities such as translucence and low porosity. Among the most familiar porcelain goods are table and decorative china, chemical ware, dental crowns, and electrical insulators. Usually white or off-white, porcelain comes in […]
China Jingdezhen Porcelain Fair in Iceland
Posted on August 24, 2007 - Filed Under JingDeZhen Ceramics, Ceramic in China, Ceramic Communion, Antiques & Collectibles | Leave a Comment
       China Jingdezhen Porcelain Fair is on show in Kopavogur from December 20th, 2005 up to the second half of January 2006. On January 19th, 2006, HE Mr. Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, President of Iceland, and Mr. Yang Junqi, Charge’de Affairs of the Embassy of China in Iceland, attended the fair. More than 30,000 porcelain products with over […]
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