Chapter 3: Asia

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Chapter 3 Asia
China Japan Korea
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What are the primary accomplishments of Asian
ceramics? IDEAS

• Kiln Design
• Glaze technology
• Aesthetics

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What are the unique ideas the Chinese have about
kiln design?

• Heat rises, build on hill.
• Single chamber takes a lot of fuel, make smaller
  chambers.
• Pots need to be fired hotter to be stronger.
• Invent pot foot so pots can be stacked on top
  of each other.
• Invent saggar so wood ash doesnt mar pottery and
  can be stacked on top of each other.

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China has an abundance of stoneware and
porcelain.

• These types of clay have to be fired hotter to
  get stronger.
• They experimented with every style of kiln.
• They developed the anagama, also known as a
• serpent kiln. It has a single chamber and it
  snakes
• up the hill.

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Subsequent kiln developments

• Ash made a mess of highly decorated pots so they
  started making saggars.
• Anagamas require a lot of wood to fire so they
  experimented with kiln design and came up with
  multi-chambered kilns that the Japanese call
  naborigama.

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Anagama or naborigama?
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Kiln features that we still have.

• Down draft vs updraft
• Flue opening to chimney or opening at top
• Damper Gate that controls opening of flue
• Saggars, shelves, furniture, posts,
• peep holes
• Reduction vs Oxidation firing tied to glazes

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Glaze Technology

• Ash glaze was the first real glaze. Ash is
  deposited on the pots because they are wood
  fired.
• Lead glazes were common in the Han (green) and
  Tang Dynasty (3 color/sankai)
• Feldspathic glazes were greatest contribution.
  These are glazes made by grinding rock and
  suspending in water.

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China has made notable contributions through out
its long history
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• Song dynasty Golden Age of Ceramics
• Forms were simple and elegant, surface decoration
  was minimal. Glazes were superb.
• Ash
• Tenmoku
• Chun
• Celadon
• Crackle
• Color overglaze, yellow
• Porcelain clay at highest peak
• Ming Dynasty export ware, blue white
• bright, diverse color, overglaze, enamels

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Panshan China 2500BC
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Porcelain Jar Korean 1800
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