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Chinese Glazes - Their Origins, Chemistry, and Recreation (Paperback)
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Chinese Glazes - Their Origins, Chemistry, and Recreation (Paperback)
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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for
2000 Chinese glazes have been admired throughout history for their
extraordinary qualities and colors-not least in China itself, where
their appearance has been compared variously to jade, to tea-dust,
to hare's fur, or to the "color of the sky after the rain." Some
Chinese glazes are vibrant and brilliant in tone, while others are
deep, complex, and subtle, their properties seeming to change
according to ambient light. Chinese glazes have long presented a
technical challenge to Western potters, and this book is the most
complete account yet of their nature and their reconstruction. The
story of Chinese glazes is also the story of Chinese ceramics
itself, one of the most fascinating and influential traditions in
ceramic history. Chinese Glazes traces the development of China's
great high-fired glaze tradition from its roots in the Bronze Age,
through the famous monochrome stoneware glazes of the Song dynasty,
to the fine porcelain glazes of southern China. The book also
examines in detail the story of China's low-fired glazes, from the
time of China's first emperor to the present day. The book shows
clearly how the potters of ancient China were able to work their
ceramic miracles from the simplest recipes, and how modern potters
can use and adapt these principles for their own work. The book
contains hundreds of recipes for formulating Chinese glazes with
Western materials, simple and advanced calculation techniques, as
well as efficient blending procedures with local materials. The
book is lavishly illustrated, with nearly three hundred
photographs, one hundred in full color. These depict examples of
the Chinese arts as found in pottery ranging from simple
earthenware jars excavated at Neolithic sites to exquisitely
designed dishes found in imperial tombs. They also show examples of
modern Western ware that employ these remarkable glazing
techniques.
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