Ru Ware Chinese Ceramics

Ru ware chinese ceramics. The ru kiln produced ware for a short period during the years when northern song emperors zhezong 1085 1110 and huizong 1110 1125 ruled. A qingbai porcelain vase bowl and model of a granary with transparent blue toned glaze from the period of the song dynasty 960 1279 ad. No more than 60 intact pieces from the kiln were known before the discovery in 1986 of the. Regarded as the most celebrated of all wares in the history of chinese ceramics the brush washer broke the previous record of hk 281 24 million us 36 05 million set in 2014 by a ming dynasty.

One of the most celebrated is the imperial ru ware which was made exclusively for the chinese imperial use. China is famous for its long history in producing ceramics porcelain and other wares. Chinese ceramics range from construction materials such as bricks and tiles to hand built pottery vessels fired in bonfires or kilns to the sophisticated chinese porcelain wares made for. Chinese ceramics show a continuous development since pre dynastic times and are one of the most significant forms of chinese art and ceramics globally.

Ru ware ju ware or ru official ware chinese. Ru ware is the most precious of all the ancient chinese pottery which is due to the fact that it is so rare. Porcelain it is a collective term comprising all ceramic ware that is white and translucent no matter what ingredients are used to make it or to what use it is put the chinese tradition recognizes two primary categories of ceramics high fired cí. A new world auction record for chinese ceramics was achieved in hong kong when an extraordinarily rare ru guanyao brush washer sold for hk 294 3 million 37 7million after 20 minutes of tense bidding.