Song Dynasty Ceramic Ru Ware

Ru ware ju ware or ru official ware chinese.

Song dynasty ceramic ru ware. Chinese imperial song dynasty ru wares are the most important collectable and valuable ceramics china has ever produce. The confused state of northern china under the five dynasties was not conducive to development of the pottery industry and some types such as the tang three colour wares went out of production completely. Song dynasty ceramics chinese ceramics of the song dynasty 960 1279 constitute perhaps the foremost expression of ceramic art not only in china but in the entire world. Of these five kilns ru ware is the most rare.

Chinese ceramics range from construction materials such as bricks and tiles to hand built pottery vessels fired in bonfires or kilns to the sophisticated chinese porcelain wares made for. They were made in ruzhou and only during the reign of two emperors a period that spanned only 40 years. Pottery pottery song dynasty 960 1279 ce. Decoration is infrequent but may be incised.

Ru ware has a buff stoneware body and is covered with a dense greenish blue glaze that sometimes has. Fortunately high quality ceramics were also made for daily use. Song dynasty ceramics ru ware and guan ware 汝窑 官窑 november 6 2014 chloecao during the asian art in london many galleries have exhibited a wide range of exquisite chinese ceramic wares from tang to qing dynasty. Chinese ceramics show a continuous development since pre dynastic times and are one of the most significant forms of chinese art and ceramics globally.

The first pottery was made during the palaeolithic era. Needless to say such pieces usually auction for many millions of dollars. The wares of the song dynasty are particularly noted for brilliant feldspathic glazes over a stoneware body and their emphasis on simplicity of form.

With only about seventy recorded examples left in existence ru ware is the most rare and therefore the most sought after type of chinese porcelain. Today there are only around 70 pieces of known ru ware in private collections and museums and jessica chang says that it very rarely appears on the market. Vessel shape potting techniques glaze decoration firing processes and aesthetic. Chinese pottery chinese pottery the five dynasties 907 960 and ten kingdoms 902 978.

During the song period a unity of the essential components fundamental to the art.