A history of Chinese ceramic technology from the Stone Age to the present day.
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Chief Curator, Far Eastern Section, Asian Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Professor of Ceramics, Department of Ceramics, University of Westminster, Harrow.
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Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. First Edition. Octavo (25.5x20x6.5cm); xlix + 918pp, including three bibliographies; index; romanization table; and chronology. Illustrated with 172 photographs (largely in color), maps, and reproductions of scroll- and line-drawings; 158 scientific charts and tables. Very Good. Dust jacket reproduces Taoist genii from a painted temple scroll on a cream ground. Image repeated in grisaille on boards; spine in black cloth with gilt lettering. Jacket shows only slightest shelfwear at edges; binding sturdy and sound; textblock unmarred and unmarked. This hefty volume is 1/27 of the late Joseph Needham's authoritative and still continuing series, publishedto datein seven volumes and 27 parts. The focus is scientific and artisanal, covering clays, glazes, firing, kilns, porcelain, stoneware, and pigments, as used to create everything from tiny celadon incense-burners to giant polychrome glazed roofs and cornices for vast complexes and entire cities. Needham's series has been decisively influential in global understanding of China's pre-modern scientific and technological superiority over the West. Artikel-Nr. 8807
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How were Chinese pots made, glazed and fired Why did China discover porcelain more than one thousand years before the West What are the effects of China's influence on world ceramics These questions (and many more) are answered in this lavishly-illustrated history of Chinese ceramic technology. The scene is set through the use of historical texts, archaeological excavation, and the principles of ceramic science. Chapters follow on the formation of clays and their relation to the underlying geologies of China, on firing, on manufacturing methods and sequences, on glazes, pigments and gilding, and on the impact of Chinese ceramic technology around the world, from the seventh to the twenty-first centuries. This is a volume unique in its coverage, which brings together research materials in several languages for the first time. With additional contributions by Ts'ai Mei-fen (National Palace Museum, Taipei) and Zhang Fukang (Shanghai Institute of Ceramics). Artikel-Nr. 9780521838337
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