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Pale green Longquan Ware Vase with Phoenix Handles, in National Palace Museum, Taipei, on cover of 'Jade Green and Kingfisher Blue', by ACC Art Books.
Pale green Longquan Ware Vase with Phoenix Handles, in National Palace Museum, Taipei, on cover of 'Jade Green and Kingfisher Blue', by ACC Art Books.
Pale green Longquan Ware Vase with Phoenix Handles, in National Palace Museum, Taipei, on cover of 'Jade Green and Kingfisher Blue', by ACC Art Books.
Pale green Longquan Ware Vase with Phoenix Handles, in National Palace Museum, Taipei, on cover of 'Jade Green and Kingfisher Blue', by ACC Art Books.
Pale green Longquan Ware Vase with Phoenix Handles, in National Palace Museum, Taipei, on cover of 'Jade Green and Kingfisher Blue', by ACC Art Books.
Pale green Longquan Ware Vase with Phoenix Handles, in National Palace Museum, Taipei, on cover of 'Jade Green and Kingfisher Blue', by ACC Art Books.
Pale green Longquan Ware Vase with Phoenix Handles, in National Palace Museum, Taipei, on cover of 'Jade Green and Kingfisher Blue', by ACC Art Books.
Pale green Longquan Ware Vase with Phoenix Handles, in National Palace Museum, Taipei, on cover of 'Jade Green and Kingfisher Blue', by ACC Art Books.

Jade Green and Kingfisher Blue

Longquan Wares from Museums and Art Institutes Around the World

By (author) Rose Kerr

£198.00

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  • Combines some of the rarest and most exquisite Longquan wares - over 270 pieces - from museums and art institutes around the world
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Longquan wares were made mainly in Zhejiang province over a period of over sixteen hundred years, from the 3rd to the 19th centuries. There are two outstanding features of the beautiful Longquan ceramics, one is that the body is made of porcelain, and the other, that the glaze contains kaolin in its composition. This gives Longquan ware unique colour and quality. The body is smooth and dense, the glaze either unctuous or shiny, the colour a myriad shades of kingfisher blue and jade green. The result of development of porcelain technology at Longquan was a tough, attractive, and versatile celadon material that was ideally suited for export. Longquan vessels found their way to a variety of markets around the world, from royal palaces to common dwellings. During the Yuan dynasty a peak in quantity was reached, with more than 150 kiln sites overall. Many new decoration techniques and forms of mass production for global exports emerged, until production almost expired entirely during the late Ming dynasty, due to a range of still-debated reasons. It is readily apparent that the Longquan kilns in Zhejiang province produced a wide range of wares, in vast quantities, over a period of more than 500 years. During the Southern Song period premier kinuta ceramics glazed with shimmering pale bluish-green colours attracted the highest approbation. During the early Ming dynasty the Daoyao kiln manufactured superlative imperial ceramics for the imperial household. However, despite their great beauty and perceived worth, Longquan ceramics have never been regarded as one of the “Five Great Wares”. This book combined some of the rarest and most exquisite Longquan wares of over 270 pieces from museums and Art Institutes around the world.

About the Author

Rose Kerr is an English art historian specialising in Chinese art, especially Chinese ceramics. She graduated in Chinese studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and was one of a handful of British students to live and study in China during the last year of the Cultural Revolution, 1975-1976. She has often travelled round China, visiting museums and ancient kiln sites. After working for 25 years at the Victoria & Albert Museum, she now concentrates on teaching, research and writing. 

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Specifications
Publisher
ACC Art Books
ISBN
9781788842266
Published
16th Jun 2023
Binding
Hardback
Territory
World
Size
327 mm x 266 mm
Pages
288 Pages
Illustrations
544 color
Name of series
Masterpieces of Chinese Ceramics
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