Click the calligraphy link once you get into that page
There are 5 basic categories of calligraphy...
I will be back tommorrow though...
Posted on 01/28/2004 8:06:02 PM PST by maui_hawaii
Archaeologists have discovered two important sites during an excavation of an imperial kiln at Jingdezhen, a city renowned for its porcelain since the Song Dynasty (960-1279) in South China's Jiangxi Province.
The excavation of the imperial kiln lasting from the Ming (1368-1644) to the Qing (1644-1911) dynasties covered an area of 788 square meters.
One of the sites contained relics from the Jiangxi porcelain company in the late Qing Dynasty. Founded in 1902, the company was the first modern enterprise cooperatively run by officials and businessmen at Jingdezhen.
The second site unearthed was a kiln of the early Ming Dynasty.
"This is the largest group of kilns at an imperial site ever discovered in China," said Li Yiping, deputy director of local porcelain and archaeological institute. "It provides valuable evidences for research on porcelain making skills at the imperial kilns in the early Ming Dynasty."
A 10-cm tall red glazed cup with a 16cm-wide mouth drew the attention of many archaeologists.
"The seal 'Made in Yongle years', the reign of a Ming emperor, at the center of the cup written in zhuanshu, a Chinese calligraphy style, is the most distinct ever found in the world," said Li.
"Even today's modern techniques cannot create such a vibrant red glaze," Li added.
Imperial kilns were the imperial porcelain workshops of China's royalty. Since the Yuan emperor Kublai Khan established a porcelain bureau named Fuliang in 1278, Jingdezhen had been the location of the imperial kilns of the Yuan (1271-1368), Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasty for 632 years until the end of the Qing Dynasty in 1911.
Covering an area of 50,000 square meters, Jingdezhen boasts the largest imperial porcelain workshops with the longest history and the most exquisite workmanship in China.
So far over 3,000 porcelain treasures have been restored from fragments unearthed from Jingdezhen.
At one time I had a working list of Asian Art web pages, but when the old laptop died so did it.
I will keep you in mind when I find more...
I have also seen some very good Asian Art books and magazines.
I know a little about Chinese art, but some of the sites go into "Asian" art in general.
Go to your local public library. It very well might have lots of info on this stuff.
I also very much enjoy Chinese calligraphy. I am more knowlegeable on that than say some of the details of porcelain.
I have to work in the morning :^)
You can own it, just not take it out of China.
To take those kinds of things outside of China is a crime (really, not figuratively) in China.
Of course the govt often sponsors some 'tours' of art where they approve things for loan or whatever...
They can be appreciated just fine by visiting a museum. Its cheaper too.
When you get beyond the outlying stuff things start to get REALLY interesting.
I can try to get you a start if you want...
Click the calligraphy link once you get into that page
There are 5 basic categories of calligraphy...
I will be back tommorrow though...
Thanks! :)
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