The Erya defined porcelain ( cí) as "fine, compact pottery ( táo)". Terms such as " porcellaneous" or "near-porcelain" may be used for stonewares with porcelain-like characteristics. The Chinese tradition recognizes two primary categories of ceramics: high-fired ( cí 瓷) and low-fired ( táo 陶), so doing without stoneware, which in Chinese tradition is mostly grouped with (and translated as) porcelain. Porcelain, on a Western definition, 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". Stoneware, fired at higher temperatures, and naturally impervious to water, was developed very early and continued to be used for fine pottery in many areas at most periods the tea bowls in Jian ware and Jizhou ware made during the Song dynasty are examples. The earliest Chinese pottery was earthenware, which continued in production for utilitarian uses throughout Chinese history, but was increasingly less used for fine wares. 10.3 Three Kingdoms, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui (220 to 618)Ī qingbai porcelain vase, bowl, and model of a granary with transparent blue-toned glaze, from the period of the Song dynasty (960–1279 AD).
5.13.1 Classification by colour, the famille groups.4.4 Liao, Song, Western Xia and Jin dynasties, 907–1276.
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