Ru Ware Chinese Ceramics

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.

Ru ware chinese ceramics.

No more than 60 intact pieces from the kiln were known before the discovery in 1986 of the. Ru ware ju ware or ru official ware chinese. China is famous for its long history in producing ceramics porcelain and other wares. The first pottery was made during the palaeolithic era.

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 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. 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. A qingbai porcelain vase bowl and model of a granary with transparent blue toned glaze from the period of the song dynasty 960 1279 ad.

The ru kiln produced ware for a short period during the years when northern song emperors zhezong 1085 1110 and huizong 1110 1125 ruled. One of the most celebrated is the imperial ru ware which was made exclusively for the chinese imperial use. Ru ware is the most precious of all the ancient chinese pottery which is due to the fact that it is so rare.