Ru Ware Chinese Ceramics

Ru ware ju ware or ru official ware chinese.

Ru ware chinese ceramics. Regarded as the most celebrated of all wares in the history of chinese ceramics the brush washer broke the previous record of hk 281 24 million us 36 05 million set in 2014 by a ming dynasty. It was hammered down at hk 260m at 10 58 a m. Porcelain it is a collective term comprising all ceramic ware that is white and translucent no matter what ingredients are used to make it or to what use it is put the chinese tradition recognizes two primary categories of ceramics high fired cí. As a selection of celadon ware ceramics including this 1 000 year old ru tea bowl come to auction in hong kong specialist joan ho steers us through the evolution of the grey green ceramic ware from yue to yaozhou to ru.

Chinese ceramics show a continuous development since pre dynastic times and are one of the most significant forms of chinese art and ceramics globally. The first pottery was made during the palaeolithic era. No more than 60 intact pieces from the kiln were known before the discovery in 1986 of the. Chinese ceramics range from construction materials such as bricks and tiles to hand built pottery vessels fired in bonfires or kilns to the sophisticated chinese porcelain wares made for.

A new world auction record for chinese ceramics was achieved in hong kong when an extraordinarily rare ru guanyao brush washer sold for hk 294 3 million 37 7million after 20 minutes of tense bidding. The brush washer from the late northern song 960 1127 went to auction at sotheby s hong kong this morning and the bidding started at hk 80m. Chinese imperial song ware made in ru kiln in baofeng county henan province. Ru ware is the most precious of all the ancient chinese pottery which is due to the fact that it is so rare.

The ru kilns were commissioned to produce celadon ware for the court which replaced the northern white ding ware as the favored. Hong kong local time after an intense bidding war that. Most have a distinctive pale duck egg blue glaze like the blue of the sky in.

Celadon chinese ceramics chinese art chinese style chinese antiques british museum ceramic art white ceramics stoneware british museum qingliangsi norh china song dynasty early 12th century ru ware cup stand with lavender crackle glaze. Ru ware can be traced back to a single kiln in the town of ruzhou linru county in central china where it gets its namesake from. Brush washer ru ware hebei baofeng xian northern song 960 1127 h. 3 5 cm md 13 cm fd 9 cm collection of röhsska museum gothenburg.

Ru kiln kiln known for creating highly prized chinese stoneware. Chinese celadon ware ceramics.