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Shiwan ware (Chinese: 石灣窯; pinyin: Shíwān yáo; Cantonese Jyutping: Sek6 waan1 jiu4) is Chinese pottery from kilns located in the Shiwanzhen Subdistrict of the provincial city of Foshan, near Guangzhou, Guangdong. It forms part of a larger group of wares from the coastal region known collectively as "Canton stonewares". [1]
Ancient Nanfeng Kiln is an attraction in Ancient Nanfeng Kiln Cultural and Creative Zone of Foshan city. Nanfeng Kiln (Chinese: 南风古灶; pinyin: Nánfēng gǔ zào; Jyutping: naam 4 fung 1 gu 2 zou 3) is a tourist attraction in the Ancient Nanfeng Kiln Cultural and Creative Zone, which is located in Shiwan Town, Chancheng District, Foshan city, Guangdong province of China.
Transitional porcelain is Jingdezhen porcelain, manufactured at China's principle ceramic production area, in the years during and after the transition from Ming to Qing. As with several previous changes of dynasty in China, this was a protracted and painful period of civil war.
These were updraft kilns, often built below ground. Two main types of kilns were developed by about 200 AD and remained in use until modern times. These are the dragon kiln of hilly southern China, usually fuelled by wood, long and thin and running up a slope, and the horseshoe-shaped mantou kiln of the north Chinese plains, smaller and more ...
Spittoon stoneware with Jun ware glaze, Song or Ming dynasty. The Five Great Kilns (Chinese: 五大名窯; pinyin: Wǔ dàmíng yáo), also known as Five Famous Kilns, is a generic term for ceramic kilns or wares (in Chinese 窯 yáo can mean either) which produced Chinese ceramics during the Song dynasty (960–1279) that were later held in particularly high esteem.
A dragon kiln (Chinese: 龍窯; pinyin: lóng yáo; Wade–Giles: lung-yao) or "climbing kiln", is a traditional Chinese form of kiln, used for Chinese ceramics, especially in southern China. It is long and thin, and relies on having a fairly steep slope, typically between 10° and 16°, [ 1 ] up which the kiln runs.
It was one of the Five Great Kilns of the Song dynasty recognised by later Chinese writers, [1] but has remained rather mysterious to modern scholars, with much debate as to which surviving pieces, if any, actually are Ge ware, [2] whether they actually come from the Song, and where they were made. [3]
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