| Many people do not know from where the
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| | undisturbed tombs, has enabled students
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| oriental pottery and porcelain were first
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| | to gain an idea of the wares of the Han
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| made, what are their origins. China,
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| | dynasty.
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| Korea and Japan are the countries that
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| | These mortuary pieces show that a green
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| made oriental pottery and porcelain. They
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| | glaze containing lead was commonly in
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| are similar to each other in their
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| | use, and that decoration, where present,
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| designs and styles of ware. This
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| | consisted of painting in unfixed colors,
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| similarity creates some confusion for the
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| | or of attractive incised patterns. It is
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| experts and beginners to identify them
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| | argued that the tomb wares, intended for
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| properly. And they were marked. Many
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| | the use of the deceased in a future life,
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| dynasties and emperors of old China
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| | were made perfunctorily, and that the
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| encouraged the potters.
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| | hitherto-unidentified domestic pieces
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| ORIENTAL pottery and porcelain was made
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| | must have been of better workmanship and
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| principally in China, Korea and Japan.
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| | of a higher artistic quality.
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| The wares made in these countries, and in
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| | Then followed a gap of four centuries
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| those bordering on the first two,
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| | during which no appreciable advances were
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| resemble each other superficially, and
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| | made, but the years lost in strife and
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| both beginner and expert suffer
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| | artistic stagnation were amply made up
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| confusion. A proportion of the old wares
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| | for by the brilliance of the Tang
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| was marked, usually under the base of the
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| | dynasty. The large tomb figures of horses
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| article and in under glaze blue, but just
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| | and camels, splashed with glazes of
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| as the shapes and colors of earlier
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| | orange-brown and green are among the
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| periods were imitated in succeeding
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| | best-known objects made at the time.
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| centuries, so were the marks.
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| | Time and interment have given the glaze a
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| China
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| | silvery iridescence that lends an added
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| Many people talk about, and others wonder
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| | attraction. Dishes and other pieces of
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| about, the dynasties and emperors of old
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| | the period are less familiar to many, but
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| China. It is as well, therefore, to
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| | are artistically important in many
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| preface this section with a list of those
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| | instances. Stoneware was brought a stage
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| most likely to be of use:
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| | further forward by giving it a white
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| Dynasties Emperors
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| | body, and the pieces known as Yueh
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| Chou About 1122 to 249 B.C.
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| | (abbreviated from Yueh Chou, a district
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| Han 206 B.C. to A.D. 220
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| | in Chekiang province where they were
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| T'ang 618 to A.D. 906
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| | made) with their fine celadon glaze, were
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| Sung 960 to 1279
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| | produced.
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| Ming 1368 to 1644
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| | In the succeeding Sung dynasty, many
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| Hsuan Te 1426 to 1435
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| | further styles were introduced and older
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| Ch'engHua 1465 to 1487
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| | ones developed. Carved and incised
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| Wan Li 1573 to 1619
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| | designs are found, and pale-colored
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| Ch'ing 1644 to 1912
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| | glazes of great beauty were used
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| K'ang Hsi 1662 to 1722
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| | alongside the popular celadon green,
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| Yung Cheng 1723 to 1735
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| | which is found on pieces, exported to the
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| Ch'ienLung 1736 to 1795
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| | Near East countries. All these delicately
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| Chia Ch'ing 1796 to 1820
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| | modeled and colored wares were copied in
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| TaoKuang 1821 to 1850
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| | later Ming times, but apart from
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| From before 200 B.C. little pottery has
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| | differences in finishing, the early
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| survived. The custom of burying pottery
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| | pieces were made of stoneware and the
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| vessels and figures with the body of a
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| | later of true porcelain.
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| dead person, and the reopening of
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