Small Guan bowl on legs (some 3 inches across), with pronounced type 3 glaze crackleMallet-shaped vase, Guan ware, 12th–13th century, with type 1 crackle
Guan ware or Kuan ware (Chinese: 官窯; pinyin: guān yáo; Wade–Giles: kuan-yao) is one of the Five Famous Kilns of Song dynasty China, making high-status stonewares, whose surface decoration relied heavily on crackled glaze, randomly crazed by a network of crack lines in the glaze.
Guan means "official" in Chinese and Guan ware was, most unusually for Chinese ceramics of the period, the result of an imperial initiative resulting from the loss of access to northern kilns such as those making Ru ware and Jun ware after the invasion of the north and the flight of a Song prince to establish the Southern Song at a new capital at Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. It is usually assumed that potters from the northern imperial kilns followed the court south to man the new kilns.[1]
In some Asian sources "Guan ware" may be used in the literally translated sense to cover any "official" wares ordered by the Imperial court.[2] In April 2015, Liu Yiqian paid US$14.7 million for a Guan ware vase from the Southern Song.[3]
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^Napolitano, Dean (7 April 2015). "Southern Song Dynasty-Era Vase Sells for $14.7 Million at Sotheby's Auction". WSJ. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
Guanware or Kuan ware (Chinese: 官窯; pinyin: guān yáo; Wade–Giles: kuan-yao) is one of the Five Famous Kilns of Song dynasty China, making high-status...
enormous quantities. Important types are: Yue ware, Yaozhou ware and the wider Northern Celadons, Ru ware, Guanware, and finally Longquan celadon. Jian Zhan...
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made more or less exclusively for the court. These include Ru ware, Guanware and Ge ware, as well as earlier types such as the "secret color" (mi se)...
not restricted to them, and in particular the related Guanware uses very similar effects. Ge ware often shows "double crackle" or crackle of two types...
painting. The five kilns produced respectively: Ru ware (汝) Jun ware (钧) Guanware (官) Ding ware (定) Ge ware (哥) Although the group and name is generally said...
Ru ware, Ju ware, or "Ru official ware" (Chinese: 汝瓷) is a famous and extremely rare type of Chinese pottery from the Song dynasty, produced for the imperial...
wares includes stoneware types such as Ru ware, Longquan celadon and Guanware. Painted wares such as Cizhou ware had a lower status, though they were acceptable...
important ceramic wares of the Southern Song dynasty known as Guanware, meaning "official" ware, which were made for the exclusive use of the imperial court...
though it spans a spectrum: in Ru ware it is a tolerated feature of most pieces, but not sought, while in Guanware a strong crackle is a desired effect...
crazing or crackle in the glaze, but much less than in the closely related Guanware. A technique sometimes found before about 1400 was to add spots or splashes...
at Sotheby's in New York. In April 2015, he paid US$14.7 million for a Guanware vase from the Southern Song dynasty. In November 2015, he bought Italian...
use in warfare. The Chinese adopt the windmill from the Islamic world. Guanware vase is made, Southern Song dynasty. It is now kept at Percival David...
crackle glazes are Guanware and Ge ware; in Ru ware, the milder crackle may be accidental, though the majority of pieces have it. Ge ware can have a type...
decoration and leaf gilding. Tang dynasty, late 7th-early 8th century Guanware vase. Song dynasty, 12th century Bodhisattva Guanyin. Gilded domeykite...
ban she. p. 424. Cen, Sen (1986). Peng, D (ed.). Bai Xue Ge Song Wu Pan Guan Gui Jing. Shanghai: Shanghai Guji chu ban she. p. 467. Tang, Guizhang (1988)...
between mantou and dragon kilns, like a stretched mantou kiln. Official Guanware had been made at Jingdezhen in a northern-style mantou kiln, rare this...
appears to have been made for the court, and is known as "official" (guan) Jun ware. The streaked pieces are "all of shapes designed for the growing or...
the Guan (官, official) mark. In the Tang dynasty treatise on tea, The Classic of Tea, Lu Yu contrasted the white Xing ware with the green Yue ware of Southern...
taste" rather than export ware, and on Imperial porcelain, much of it Jingdezhen ware. It includes examples of the rare Ru and Guan wares and two important...
1998, pp. 191–2. Ware 1966, pp. 379–85. Adapted from Ware 1966. Needham 1956, p. 437. Ware 1966, pp. 61–2. Needham 1956, p. 439. Ware 1966, p. 273. Wu...
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the Nevada desert, and the Flight Test Engineer in charge was Joseph F. Ware, Jr. The first overflight took place on July 4 1956. The U-2 ceased overflights...
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Kilns of the Song dynasty (960–1279), along with Ding porcelain, Jun ware, Guan and Ge; the museum has major collections of all of these. Those from the...
followed the ideas of Gregor Mendel and Thomas Hunt Morgan. These included Guan Xianghuan at Southwest Agricultural College and, later, Bao Wenkui at the...
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