Southern Song Dynasty Ceramics

It is commonly divided into bei northern and nan southern song periods as the dynasty ruled only in south china after 1127.
Southern song dynasty ceramics. White porcelain and black glazed stonewares however continued into the song dynasty. See more ideas about ceramics chinese pottery chinese ceramics. Offered in fine chinese ceramics works of art on 22 march 2019 at christie s in new york. During the song period a unity of the essential components fundamental to the art.
The song dynasty. Hangzhou museum culture day tour from 140 00 classic hangzhou city day tour from 143 05 hangzhou cultural day tour with authentic lunch from 169 37 handcraft experience. 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. Qingbai ware is white with a blue greenish tint and is also referred to as yingqing shadow green although this name appears only to date from the 18th century.
Jul 21 2020 explore lynda olman s board song dynasty ceramics on pinterest. Qingbai ware 青白 qīngbái green white formerly ch ing pai etc is a type of chinese porcelain produced under the song dynasty and yuan dynasty defined by the ceramic glaze used. 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. A superb kinuta longquan celadon washer southern song dynasty 1127 1279.
Chinese pottery chinese pottery the five dynasties 907 960 and ten kingdoms 902 978. Half day hangzhou ceramic culture tour from 230 00. Sung song dynasty minneapolis institute of arts an excellent guide with many examples of different types of ceramic ware produced during the song dynasty including many of the wares shown above ding ting qingbai ch ing pai longquan lung ch uan jun chun guan kuan and cizhou tz u chou. Vessel shape potting techniques glaze decoration firing processes and aesthetic theory were all combined.
Song dynasty wade giles romanization sung 960 1279 chinese dynasty that ruled the country during one of its most brilliant cultural epochs. In 1125 when the jurchen a semi nomadic people from northeast asia invaded song china and captured the capital at bianliang modern kaifeng founding their own jin dynasty in the north the song court reestablished itself in the south in hangzhou where it continued to rule for another 150 years as the southern song dynasty. 5 in 14 3 cm diameter. The dynasty was founded by emperor taizu of song following his usurpation of the throne of the later zhou ending the five dynasties and ten kingdoms period the song often came into conflict with the contemporaneous liao western xia and jin dynasties.