Changsha Tongguan Kiln

The Changsha Tongguan kiln ( Chinese  长沙 铜 官窑 , Pinyin Chángshā Tóngguān yáo , English Changsha Tongguan kiln ), also Changsha kiln ( 长沙 窑 , Chángshā yáo , English Changsha kiln ) and Tongguan kiln ( 铜. 官窑 , Tongguan yón yón) ), was a ceramic kiln on the Xiang Jiang River in Hunan from the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty . It was previously known as the Shizhu kiln ( 石 渚 窑 , English Shizhu kiln ).

The kiln sites are named after the town of Tongguan , which belongs to the district-free city of Changsha , the capital of the Chinese province of Hunan . They are located in Wazhaping Town, Tongguan Township and neighboring towns in Wangcheng County . Its heyday falls in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties . This is where the decoration technique of (colored) underglaze was invented.

The site of the Changsha Tongguan Kiln has been on the List of Monuments of the People's Republic of China (3-224) since 1988 .

Individual objects

• Changsha yao youxiacai luwen zhi hu ( 长沙 窑 釉下 彩 鹿 纹 执 壶 , Chángshā yáo yòuxiàcǎi lùwén zhí hú ) jug with handle decorated with a deer with underglaze color, Changsha pottery (Tang dynasty)

literature

• Changsha Tongguan yao , Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe 1985

reference books

• Zhongguo da baike quanshu : Kaoguxue (archeology). Beijing: Zhongguo da baike quanshu chubanshe 1986 ( online text )

See also

• List of ancient Chinese ceramic kilns

Web links

• 长沙 铜 官窑. huaxia.com, November 6, 2008, accessed October 31, 2010 (Chinese, Changsha Tongguan yao: map of sites and color photos). 
• Changsha Kiln Ware - English

Footnotes

1. ↑ In the mainland China online encyclopedia Baidu Baike , the kiln is covered under all three headings (see web links).
2. ↑ Changsha Kiln. (No longer available online.) ChinaCulture.org, June 9, 2005, archived from the original on August 19, 2011 ; accessed on October 31, 2010 (English). 

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