Chinese Ceramics Ru Ware
Named after its origin the official kiln in ruzhou henan province the ru porcelain ware is recognized as the best of its time as well as in the entire history of chinese ceramics.
Chinese ceramics ru ware. Old cloisonne porcelain handwork flowers and birds vase w yongzheng mark 13. An ethereal shade of blue. This rarity makes ru wares even more precious. As the northern song production spanned a mere 20 years less than 100 pieces have survived to date.
Rare old cloisonne porcelain handwork flower and bird vase w yongzheng mark yz01. China antique porcelain ming xuande blue glaze gongfu wine glass tea cup. China is famous for its long history in producing ceramics porcelain and other wares. 3 5 cm md 13 cm fd 9 cm collection of röhsska museum gothenburg.
Most have a distinctive pale duck egg blue glaze like the blue of the sky in. One of the most celebrated is the imperial ru ware which was made exclusively for the chinese imperial use. Ru ware ju ware or ru official ware chinese.
As a selection of celadon ware ceramics including this 1 000 year old ru tea bowl come to auction in hong kong specialist joan ho steers us through the evolution of the grey green ceramic ware from yue to yaozhou to ru. Ru kiln kiln known for creating highly prized chinese stoneware. Ru ware is the most precious of all the ancient chinese pottery which is due to the fact that it is so rare. No more than 60 intact pieces from the kiln were known before the discovery in 1986 of the.
Crazing fine lines or cracks on glaze layer. The ru kiln produced ware for a short period during the years when northern song emperors zhezong 1085 1110 and huizong 1110 1125 ruled. The ru kilns were commissioned to produce celadon ware for the court which replaced the northern white ding ware as the favored. In 2015 we invested more than 1 million yuan to build factory to reproduce classic handed down ru ware handicrafts not antiques and create up to date ru kiln products based on retaining master li s ru ware.
Chinese celadon ware ceramics. Brush washer ru ware hebei baofeng xian northern song 960 1127 h. The exhibition focus on fairly ordinary 18th century chinese porcelain exported to the west but also highlight neolithic pottery and some imperial wares from a rare example of ru ware in the röhss museum collection to chinese armorial porcelain and special porcelain made to order of the swedish east india company.