Character Volume - A Illustrated Dictionary of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Patterns

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Publish Date: 2001-01-07
Features: China is a world-renowned ancient land of ceramics. The ceramic culture has a long history, and the ceramic art is vast and profound. Especially the blue-and-white porcelain of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, using cobalt oxide as the pigment, drawn with the brushwork of Chinese painting on white porcelain, covered with transparent glaze, and fired, forming a series of elegant and beautiful Chinese paintings. This is indeed the crystallization of painting art and sculptural art; at the same time, it is a vivid reflection of the society's economy, culture, politics, and folklore. In addition to the complete blue-and-white porcelain, there are also vast amounts of blue-and-white porcelain fragments buried in the underground of historical and cultural cities, which are the unchanging beauty of history left by predecessors. With the development of the economy and urban construction, a large number of ancient ceramic fragments have been unearthed. People of insight toil hard to rescue and collect piece by piece of broken civilization; study and appreciate a series of ceramic art works, thus forming a world-famous "fragment family." The illustrated catalog collected in this book is the fine blue-and-white porcelain paintings collected by the fragment family over the past decades. It provides a colorful cultural feast for ancient ceramic collectors, researchers, cultural heritage and archaeological workers, art and education workers, and all people who love ancient Chinese art. Readers can gain a relatively comprehensive understanding of ancient blue-and-white porcelain painting knowledge from it; through pattern comparison, master the method of dating blue-and-white porcelain; increase interest in collecting blue-and-white porcelain, and improve the appreciation level of ceramic art.