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Porcelain manufacture of the city of Jingdezhen continuously developed in the period
of the Song (960–1279) and Yuan (1271–1368) dynasties and in the Ming epoch
(1368–1644) gained outstanding achievements. Jingdezhen maintained the status of
an unfailing porcelain manufacturer, and its rich, perfect, well-honed and progressive
ceramic art made its works “splendid and diversifid in form and expression”. The city
itself gained a status of an “accumulator of the Celestial Empire’s porcelain”. The reigning
house established a factory in Jingdezhen that produced porcelain for personal use by
the imperial family members, and this impressive event resulted in even more rapid
development of Jingdezhen’s ceramic art. The techniques of producing ceramic objects,
which progressed day by day, reinforced the city’s status as an all-China centre of ceramic
art. The principal production line – snow-white glazed porcelain in the Song and Yuan
periods – eventually developed in a trend of producing decorative porcelain, which
meant radical changes in the technique of making ceramics.
Key words: decorative porcelain, porcelain sculptures, ornament.
