Celadon
Celadon , and celadon ceramics and Celadon is one of his "celadon" (gray-green) glaze called Chinese stoneware of the 9th to the 15th century , which in the Middle Ages, occasionally even after Europe reached. The oldest imported celadon bowl is in the Hessian State Museum in Kassel and was owned by the Counts of Katzenelnbogen from around 1420 . Celadon pottery is often decorated with reliefs .
history
The greenish or bluish glaze allows the broken pieces to shine through in early pieces . On later specimens, the glaze is grass green or dark olive green. The typical glaze of the Ming period (from 1368 ) is gray-green and opaque. Celadon pottery was popular in Asia because its color is reminiscent of jade . The color results from the reduction of iron oxide in the feldspar glaze during the firing process.
At the end of the 13th century , this form of ceramic production was exported to the south of Thailand , when King Ramkhamhaeng of Sukhothai himself brought the relevant techniques with him from a trip to China. The ceramic industries of Sukhothai and Sawankhalok have survived in Si Satchanalai to this day.
The glazes of today's western ceramists like to show the color of celadon.
Naming
The name "celadon" comes from the hero of the 1610 novel L'Astrée by Honoré d'Urfé . The dull green robe of the shepherd Céladon was fashionable for a while and so shaped the name of the color. Until the 19th century , the expression “tender as celadon” was literally comparable with “beautiful like Adonis” or “strong like Hercules”.
further reading
- G. St. GM Gompertz: Celadon Wares . London 1968
- B. Harrison: Oriental Celadon . Leeuwarden 1978
- M. Tregear: The ceramics of the Song era . Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7774-3390-X
- J. Ayers: The ceramics of the Far East: China, Vietnam, Korea, Japan . Freiburg, Basel, Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-451-20199-2
- G. Weiss: Old ceramics rediscovered. Frankfurt / M., Berlin, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-548-34290-6
- Roxanna M. Brown: The Ceramics of South-East Asia. Their Dating and Identification. 2nd edition. Art Media Resources, Chicago 2000, ISBN 1-878529-70-6
- A. Mertens with M. Flitsch: Focus on celadon. Jade-like porcelains and their masters in Longquan, PR China . Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-89790-574-0 .
See also
Web links
- Seladon PW Hartmann: Art Lexicon
- Eastern Han to Sui Period (English)
- Celadon ( Memento from February 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Zeit Online (taken from Meyers Lexikon Online)
Individual evidence
- ^ Glossary: Celadon. Collectors portal Gotheborg.com (accessed September 15, 2012).
- ↑ cf. Cup game - The Landgraves' Silver Treasure ( Memento from April 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Press release on the exhibition at the Museum Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, 2010.
- ^ Roxanna M. Brown: The Sukhothai and Sawankhalok Kilns . In: Dies .: The Ceramics of South-East Asia. Their Dating and Identification . 2nd edition. Art Media Resources, Chicago 2000, ISBN 1-878529-70-6 , pp. 56-80.