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Folk Pottery
It generally refers to the pottery handed down over many dynasties. Generally speaking, its cost is low and its production requires low condition. Thus it has a strong vitality in the folk life. Its great distinction from the government-made pottery is that its skills vary with different craftsman and it can give a full play to the materials' aesthetic potentials. In addition, people can have easy access to it in their daily life, and worship its simplicity instead of gaudiness. As far as art is concerned it aspires for free expression of beauty. Owing to these, it survives thousands of years and possesses peculiar local aroma.

 

Folk Porcelain
It generally refers to the porcelain handed down over many dynasties. The emerge of porcelain originated from the folk pottery and is a result of folk wisdom. The burning of porcelain requires high -temperature fire, its wadding is compact, and its glaze is intense. The porcelain burnt in the folk is characterized by using local material, style of simplicity and coarseness in decoration. Since long time there have emerged the porcelain kiln with local characteristics.

 

Tri-Coloured Glazed Pottery of the Tang Dynasty
\ It is a type of pottery burnt at low temperature in the Tang Dynasty. Its producing places are mainly distributed in Henan, Shaanxi and Hebei Provinces, etc. Its wadding is grey white in colour, its glaze is yellow, green or white. Its glaze is coloured with oxide containing copper, iron, cobalt, etc. The melt-enhancing matter in the lead constituted in the glaze helps the glaze juice flow in the course of burning and can put the glaze into different shapes. In the early time there were mono -coloured pottery or bicoloured pottery. The so- called trio- coloured pottery does not possess more than three colours. It mainly served as funerary objects and figurines.

 

Entangled Glaze
It is a decoration- applying skill on the surface of pottery and porcelain. The skills goes like this: first, the glaze material is blended with coloring material; then taking advantage of the unfusibility of the two material, apply them to the wadding after being stirred, and finally put the wadding into the kiln for burning.

 

Coloring of Black and White
\ It is a method of applying black and white to the glaze of porcelain . The cobalt pigment is coloured onto the inner side of the glaze. Its embryonic form emerged in the Tang and Song Dynasties. The mature colouring of black and white came into being in the Hutian kiln of Jingde Town, Jiangxi Province. The process goes like this: they use cobalt pigment to adumbrate pattern on the mould, and then put the glaze on the mould before it is put into the kiln for burning. The making of the black and white porcelains was in its boom in the Xuande Period of the Ming Dynasty. This kind of Porcelain was in possession of simple and sketchy style. Its contour is finished at one stroke. Since the middle and later periods of the Ming Dynasty, its colours have been become abundant.

 

Tianmu Porcelain
\ It is also called "Tianri Glaze". It mainly refers to the kilned porcelain with Black glaze produced in Fujian and Jiangxi provinces. Since there are speckles on this type of porcelain, it is called "Tianmu", the eye of heaven. It is also said that it is named after the Tianmu Mountain. Tianmu porcelain is characterized by black and yellow base glaze, on which there are "rabbit- hair grain" and "hawksbill turtle grain".

 

Guzhou Kiln
\ It is famous kiln in the Song Dynasty, which was situated in Ji"an, Jiangxi province and also called "Yonghe kiln" and "Dongchang kiln". It burned the porcelain with black glaze on which there are many grains and patterns. In addition, it also produced the porcelain by employing the skills of paper cutting. The themes of its patterns are animals, fauna and flora,etc.

 

Fahua Pottery
\ It is a type of pottery kilned at low temperature in the south of Shanxi province. Its constitution of glaze is similar to coloured glaze . There were pottery wadding for it in the Ming Dynasty and porcelain wadding in the Qing Dynasty. Its products include vase, incense burner, sculpture,etc. Its patterns include flower, bird and figures.

 

Stirup-Shaped Kettle
\ It is a type of pottery and also called "cockscomb kettle". It derived from the leather bag used by the Qidan nationality in the north.

 

Porcelain Pillow
\ It originated in the Sui and Tang dynasties. It takes various shapes: rectangular, waist-shaped, cloud-shaped,etc. There are also baby-shaped , tiger-shaped and dragon-shaped pillows.

 

Purple Grit Pottery
\ It is a type of purple pottery made of mud without glaze. The document of the Song dynasty have mentioned this type of pottery. It flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Yixing, Jiangsu Province is famous for making purple grit pottery. Among the potteries, purple grit teapot is most famous. It can maintain the original flavour of tea and looks beautiful.

 

Rongchang Pottery
\ It is a type of pottery kilned in Anfu, Sichuan Province. It is made by the high-quality soil produced in this area. Its products are mainly daily appliances. Its model is beautiful and glaze is bright. It subcategorizes into fine pottery with thin and hard wadding, and colourful pottery with many grains.

 

Jieshou Pottery
\ It is a type of pottery kilned in Jieshou, Anhui province . It has fine wadding and its glaze is in red, green, yellow, etc. Themes of its patterns are from theatrical tales.

 

  

 

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