Chinese Porcelain Square Ceramics

In the world of ming and qing dynasty art knowing how to look at a reign mark is a key asset for any collector specialist or enthusiast to correctly identify the date and the value of a piece of chinese porcelain.

Chinese porcelain square ceramics.

The most common marks on porcelain tend to be written in underglaze blue within a double circle. Chinese ceramics show a continuous development since pre dynastic times and are one of the most significant forms of chinese art and ceramics globally. A collection of pottery marks using photos and images from our antique collection for easy reference and as a quick guide to the possible attribution of your latest porcelain collectible or pottery marks. Some chinese antiques porcelain marks or pottery marks contain dates of the chinese 60 year cyclic calendar but these are actually quite rare cyclic calendar dates started to appear mainly on qianjiang style dated porcelain in the second half of the 19th century.

Free shipping on many items. The first pottery was made during the palaeolithic era. 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. There was a brief time during the kangxi period in 1667 when the emperor issued an edict forbidding the use of his reign mark on porcelain in case the ceramics were smashed and discarded.

The marks might be bewilderingly difficult to recognize and it might even be hard to see if it is japanese or chinese. Chinese marks more regular as a rule. Kaolin clay mineral pottery stones feldspars and quartz. Decorated with tian an men square and hua biao surrounded by a group of sun flowers.

But these are not marks proper but rather part of the signatures of porcelain artists. A useful reference book is the handbook of marks on chinese ceramics gerald davison london 1994. Fine antique chinese famille rose square vase qianlong period chinese antique. As a general rule chinese marks are more regular with mostly six or four character put inside a round or square frame.

Those mixed materials are heated in a kiln at 1200 1400 celsius degrees. Reign marks can be found on chinese ceramics mainly from the early ming dynasty 15 th century through to the qing dynasty 1644. The marks listed below are grouped as far as was possible in a logical order with similar signs graphics shapes etc grouped together. Text on balloons with ribbons are chairman mao lives long life the communist party lives long life and mao zhu xi wan sui chairman mao s.