Moscow Out: Museums
Surviving in Moscow during the cold and bitter winter can be a challenge for anyone. The biting weather and snow brings many beautiful sights, but day in, day out it can be exhausting - especially for tourists wanting to explore the Russian capitals outdoor attractions! This week Martyn Andrews and the Moscow Out team warm up inside the citys fascinating museums and take a look at everything from Soviet history to Russian scientific exploration. The perfect winter cultural treat!
Some New Perspectives on China’s Gongyi Kilns
Nigel Wood is Professor Emeritus at the University of Westminster, England, and an Academic Visitor at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. In 2009 he was made a Academic Committee Member of the Key Base of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage for Scientific Research on Ancient Ceramics in China (Palace Museum, Beijing). Wood originally trained as a potter and worked full-time making stoneware, porcelain, and terra-cotta for some ten years (1974–84) at a workshop in Hampshire, England. Since 1973 he has published more than a hundred papers on East Asian, European, and Middle Eastern ceramics, considered mainly from the technological perspective. In 1999 he published Chinese Glazes (University of Pennsylvania Press), and in 2004 he was co-author with Rose Kerr of the Ceramic Technology volume of Science and Civilisation in China: Joseph Needham, Vol V, part 12, (Cambridge University Press). His recent research collaborations concerning ceramics have been with the Palace Museum, Beijing, on Ding ware, Ru ware, and Guan ware (2010–present); with the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on a life-sized glazed ceramic luohan from Yixian in Hebei (2015); and a current project with the British Museum on early Chinese and Iraqi blue and white wares. He has also worked recently at Oxford on Egyptian copies of Longquan celadon wares, and on the relationships between Chinese ceramics and Korean Goryeo celadons of the early twelfth century. Wood has recently resumed his work as a potter and is presently establishing a new ceramics studio at Tichborne in Hampshire.
In this talk, Dr. Wood discussed the Gongyi (Gongxian) kilns in Henan province in north China, and their important place in world ceramic history. They are well known as the producers of China’s finest sancai lead-glazed wares—polychrome ceramics made largely for royal burials in the early eighth century AD. Towards the end of the Tang dynasty the Gongyi kilns adapted their polychrome funerary wares for export, particularly to the Middle East, where they had a profound impact on the development of Abbasid ceramics in Iraq, Syria, and Iran. The Gongyi kilns are also famous as the makers of the world’s first high-fired blue and white wares, decorated with cobalt-blue pigments. A review of ceramics excavated at Siraf in Iran has recently modified our views on the possible export of early high-fired blue and white wares from the Gongyi kilns to the Middle East in the later Tang dynasty. This in turn has raised questions about Gongyi’s role in the development of the Abbasid blue and white tradition itself. Recent excavation has also placed the Gongyi kilns at the forefront of research into the origins of white porcelain in China—with some production dates proposed for the Gongyi kilns being much earlier than previously established. This is very much ‘work in progress,’ but it has important implications for our understanding of the origins of Chinese white porcelain, and its subsequent spread through China’s northern provinces during the Sui and Tang dynasties.
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Some New Perspectives on China's Gongyi Kilns
Nigel Wood is Professor Emeritus at the University of Westminster, England, and an Academic Visitor at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. In 2009 he was made a Academic Committee Member of the Key Base of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage for Scientific Research on Ancient Ceramics in China (Palace Museum, Beijing). Wood originally trained as a potter and worked full-time making stoneware, porcelain, and terra-cotta for some ten years (1974–84) at a workshop in Hampshire, England. Since 1973 he has published more than a hundred papers on East Asian, European, and Middle Eastern ceramics, considered mainly from the technological perspective. In 1999 he published Chinese Glazes (University of Pennsylvania Press), and in 2004 he was co-author with Rose Kerr of the Ceramic Technology volume of Science and Civilisation in China: Joseph Needham, Vol V, part 12, (Cambridge University Press). His recent research collaborations concerning ceramics have been with the Palace Museum, Beijing, on Ding ware, Ru ware, and Guan ware (2010–present); with the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on a life-sized glazed ceramic luohan from Yixian in Hebei (2015); and a current project with the British Museum on early Chinese and Iraqi blue and white wares. He has also worked recently at Oxford on Egyptian copies of Longquan celadon wares, and on the relationships between Chinese ceramics and Korean Goryeo celadons of the early twelfth century. Wood has recently resumed his work as a potter and is presently establishing a new ceramics studio at Tichborne in Hampshire.
In this talk, Dr. Wood will discuss the Gongyi (Gongxian) kilns in Henan province in north China, and their important place in world ceramic history. They are well known as the producers of China’s finest sancai lead-glazed wares—polychrome ceramics made largely for royal burials in the early eighth century AD. Towards the end of the Tang dynasty the Gongyi kilns adapted their polychrome funerary wares for export, particularly to the Middle East, where they had a profound impact on the development of Abbasid ceramics in Iraq, Syria, and Iran. The Gongyi kilns are also famous as the makers of the world’s first high-fired blue and white wares, decorated with cobalt-blue pigments. A review of ceramics excavated at Siraf in Iran has recently modified our views on the possible export of early high-fired blue and white wares from the Gongyi kilns to the Middle East in the later Tang dynasty. This in turn has raised questions about Gongyi’s role in the development of the Abbasid blue and white tradition itself. Recent excavation has also placed the Gongyi kilns at the forefront of research into the origins of white porcelain in China—with some production dates proposed for the Gongyi kilns being much earlier than previously established. This is very much ‘work in progress,’ but it has important implications for our understanding of the origins of Chinese white porcelain, and its subsequent spread through China’s northern provinces during the Sui and Tang dynasties.
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Auction Raises Row Over China's Lost Treasures
Auction Raises Row Over China's Lost Treasures
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CHINA: BEIJING: STOLEN TREASURES/ANTIQUITIES
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Foreign plunder and cultural neglect have contributed to the loss of countless national treasures from historical sites and sacred ruins across China.
Now, powerful, rich groups of mainland entrepreneurs are joining forces and pooling their resources to try and retrieve those valuable artefacts which are surfacing on the international art market.
If famous auction houses can't be persuaded to return the works of art stolen from China, wealthy groups are simply paying whatever it costs to bring home these priceless pieces of history.
Tourists pose for pictures and clamber over the ruins at Beijing's Old Summer Palace.
The ancient monument was built during the reign of the Manchu Emperor Qianlong.
Jesuit missionary friends of the Emperor were commissioned in 1747 to design the Rococo palace, and work as architects for the structure's European-style palaces, surrounded by elaborate fountains and baroque statuary.
Europeans became enemies a century later during the Second Opium War.
British and French troops burnt the wooden Chinese pavilions and temples, leaving only marble facades, some broken columns and traces of fountains.
Many ancient historical relics were looted at this time.
Fountains, here rendered in stone and bronze with human forms and heads of animals from the Chinese zodiac- each spouting water for two hours in turn -were removed by enemy soldiers who made off with five of the animal busts.
These ruins are all that's left of the palace itself.
They attract thousands of visitors each year.
So many tourists visit the monument, that efforts are being made to try and limit the number of people allowed to explore the ruins.
China is proud of its cultural heritage, and many feel that historical treasures plundered by foreign armies during the Opium Wars should be returned.
SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin)
I believe the national treasures should be returned to China. They shouldn't be auctioned.
SUPER: Vox Pop, tourist
SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin)
Not only should we take them back, it's most important to stop them from being taken out of China again. This is important.
SUPER: Vox Pop, tourist
Three of those bronze heads - the monkey, ox and tiger - appeared for sale on the international art market last week in Hong Kong when Christie's and Sotheby's placed the items up for auction to the highest bidder.
The sales caused widespread consternation among many Hong Kong and mainland Chinese.
Scores of demonstrators gathered outside Sotheby's Hong Kong auction house as the relics were being auctioned off inside, and police were called to the scene as scuffles broke out.
The protestors said the antiquities belonged to the Chinese people and had been looted by French and British troops in 1860.
Stepping in to defend the mainland's position and rescue her stolen national treasures is the China Poly Group, an industrial conglomerate with interests in arms, property and telecommunications.
Adding art to its list of interests, the China Poly Group with its strong connection to the People's Liberation Army, has embarked on a purchasing spree to buy back what China has lost to thieves.
The group spent over four million U-S dollars in Hong Kong to purchase the three bronze heads which it intends to place in this special Beijing museum filled with looted Chinese bronzes.
The Poly Group's mission is defined by a museum curator.
SOUND BITE: (Mandarin)
If we only rely on government finances and government protection, it's not realistic. It need more private enterprises and people to join this movement to protect our antiquities. This should be the historical trend.
SUPER CAPTION: Mr. Jiang, Assistant Museum Director
SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin)
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What Is POTTERY? POTTERY Definition & Meaning
What is POTTERY, What does POTTERY mean, POTTERY meaning, POTTERY definition, POTTERY explanation
Pottery is the art of using ceramic material to make pottery wares,[1] of which major types include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. The place where such wares are made by a potter is also called a pottery (plural potteries). The definition of pottery used by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) is all fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed, except technical, structural, and refractory products.[2]
Pottery is one of the oldest human inventions, originating before the Neolithic period, with ceramic objects like the Gravettian culture Venus of Dolní Věstonice figurine discovered in the Czech Republic date back to 29,000–25,000 BC,[3] and pottery vessels that were discovered in Jiangxi, China, which date back to 18,000 BC. Early Neolithic pottery have been found in places such as Jōmon Japan (10,500 BC),[4] the Russian Far East (14,000 BC),[5] Sub-Saharan Africa and South America.
Pottery is made by forming a ceramic (often clay) body into objects of a required shape and heating them to high temperatures in a kiln which removes all the water from the clay, which induces reactions that lead to permanent changes including increasing their strength and hardening and setting their shape. A clay body can be decorated before or after firing; however, prior to some shaping processes, clay must be prepared. Kneading helps to ensure an even moisture content throughout the body. Air trapped within the clay body needs to be removed. This is called de-airing and can be accomplished either by a machine called a vacuum pug or manually by wedging. Wedging can also help produce an even moisture content. Once a clay body has been kneaded and de-aired or wedged, it is shaped by a variety of techniques. After it has been shaped, it is dried and then fired.
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