Helen Bates on sun 25 mar 01
or celEdon?)
Gotheberg - antique Chinese pottery resource:=20
While I don't have an answer for the subject question, I did surf
around the net just a bit using celAdon and celEdon as keywords. Some
Pokemon character seems to have the spelling celAdon while galleries
and collectors' sites dealing in Asian ceramics often use celEdon. =20
Jan-Erik Nilsson of Gothenburg, SWEDEN has a very large and quite
informative commercial site:=20
http://www.gotheborg.com/ =20
His glossary has this: =20
> Celadon=20
>=20
> This term is used in the West as a general name of a wide range of gree=
nish glazed
> wares fired in a reducing atmosphere. Failure to maintain the reducing
> atmosphere gave a yellow or brown glaze on the same wares. Originated i=
n
> Zhejiang during the Eastern Han dynasty, Celadon production spread to J=
iangsu,
> Hubei, Hunan, and Jiangxi in the 3rd and 4th centuries; the wares of su=
perior
> quality were fired at 1300' C and had a porosity of under 0,5%. Commonl=
y
> produced at kilns in both the north and the south from the 7th century =
on.
> Celadon wares remained the predominant type until the 13th century. The=
name
> comes from the analogy of the color with the green ribbons of the robe =
worn on
> stage by the shepherd Celadon, hero of the novel Astr=E9e, by Honor=E9 =
d'Urfe.=20
The site also has a large free research resource on antique chinese
porcelain and goes back (with pictures) to neolithic times. (Click on
or on for
pictures of several pots in each of the main periods of Chinese
porcelain. =20
Also on site are archives of articles in the discussion list for
Chinese porcelain, and much, much else. =20
--=20
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D
Helen Bates =20
mailto:nell@quintenet.com=20
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D
| |
|
