| Painted Pottery A brief history
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| | people for their day to day activities.
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| Painted Pottery is an art form that has
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| | Cooking and food preparation was usually
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| been practiced in China since the
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| | done with pottery rather than with
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| Neolithic period.
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| | porcelain.
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| The early potters of the Neolithic and
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| | From the middle of the Tang Dynasty,
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| the Xia Dynasty, decorated their pottery
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| | porcelain became a more artistic product
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| with image that reflected the daily lives
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| | and was seldom used for domestic
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| of the cultures. The images of fish,
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| | purposes; this is especially true for the
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| animals, people and those of geometric
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| | high quality porcelains produced
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| designs were widely distributed
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| | throughout the Yuan, Ming and Qing
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| throughout the pottery of the early
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| | Dynasties.
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| period of pottery history. This was not
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| | Today, the roles are somewhat reversed,
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| only so with the Chinese pottery makers
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| | the use of porcelain has tended to become
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| but it was a feature common to all
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| | more of a domestically used product and
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| potters of all the peoples across the
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| | painted pottery an artistic form. Since
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| world. The Making of pottery was a
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| | the late 17th century the production of
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| characteristic feature of all societies
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| | porcelain has grown to such an extent
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| that were engaged in an agricultural
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| | that it is a common everyday item within
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| based life-style. Pottery was used
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| | most households. Dinner-sets, and "
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| extensively for storage of grains and for
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| | crockery " in general are all to a large
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| the cooking and preparation of food
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| | extent produced from either porcelain or
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| stuffs. Pottery was an essential part of
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| | from " china-ware". China-ware is
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| the daily lives of all the agrarian
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| | actually similar to porcelain though it
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| cultures.
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| | is fired at a lower temperature.
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| The development of art, culture and the
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| | Painted Pottery has become in the last
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| changing nature of the lives of people
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| | twenty years a product that is almost
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| lead to the creation of new styles and
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| | purely decorative. Seldom is painted
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| forms of pottery. The ultimate
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| | pottery ever used as a domestic product.
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| development of pottery was the making of
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| | The painted pottery produced today is of
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| porcelain with its enhanced range and
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| | a highly decorative nature, the extensive
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| diversity of products. Porcelain became
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| | use of colour combined with traditional
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| the dominant force in pottery making and
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| | designs of the Tang and Ming periods
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| was throughout the Zhou, Han and Tang
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| | create works that are artistic and
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| Dynasties a major feature of the art of
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| | aesthetically pleasing.
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| the Chinese peoples.
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| | Painted Pottery of the highest quality is
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| The initial stages in the development of
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| | produced in Central China around the
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| porcelain was the increased
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| | western city of Chendu. The area has
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| diversification of the painted pottery.
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| | become a center for such works although
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| The Xia and Shang periods, are
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| | the quality varies greatly from one
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| characterized by primitive designs but,
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| | producer to the next.
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| these early works were soon replaced by
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| | High quality Painted Pottery is
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| more elaborated creations. The use of
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| | characterized by a thin wall construction
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| painted pottery techniques in the
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| | that is similar to porcelain in nature
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| production of figurines during the Han
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| | and combined with brightly coloured
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| and Sui dynasties is testimony to the
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| | enamels that, when added to the ancient
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| advanced nature of the products.
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| | raw materials, produces a product with a
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| Contemporary Painted Pottery
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| | character and quality that is unique unto
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| Painted Pottery continued to be produced
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| | itself.
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| throughout all of the dynasties of
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| | supply a range of painted pottery that is
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| Chinese history though it has almost
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| | individually selected based on the
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| always existed in the shadow of
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| | standards of style, construction and
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| porcelain. Along with Celadon porcelain
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| | paint quality that is of the highest
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| it was the main product used by the
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| | level.
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