Jingdezhen Ceramic History Museum

No 1 zijing rd jingdezhen jiangxi province china.

Jingdezhen ceramic history museum.

Now it is principle part of the jingdezhen ancient kiln and folk custom expo area. The jingdezhen ceramic museum displays collections of ancient porcelain industrial era production and contemporary exhibitions. Located in the panlongshan in the western suburb of jingdezhen city the ceramic history museum now jingdezhen ceramic folk custom museum is a professional ceramic museum covering an area of about 83 hectares approx 205 acres and was built in 1980. The new address of jingdezhen china ceramics musuem.

Jingdezhen may have produced pottery as early as the sixth century ce though it is named after the reign name of emperor zhenzong in whose reign it became a major kiln site around 1004. The original name is ceramic history museum. Jingdezhen is supposed to be the most important city for chinese ceramics porcelain of the country. Nowadays jingdezhen ceramic folk custom museum is a professional ceramic museum covering an area of about 83 hectares.

It has the rarest and most beautiful ceramic artifacts storing in the jingdezhen ceramic museum in total 2400 works stretching over 5 dynasties on display from the tang dynasty down to the modern times. Jingdezhen porcelain is chinese porcelain produced in or near jingdezhen in southern china. It was built in 1980 and opened to the public in 1984. More than 30 historical ruins connected to porcelain production have been found in the city including the ancient hutian kiln and the royal kilns in the ming and qing dynasty.

The region which had produced and exported pottery for. International recognized and admired this is a recently open museum. There are some other museum with similar names jingdezhen ceramics but this is the most important and where some of the most important pieces from the small museum the drangon pearl pagoda for example have been sent. There are 5 main halls detailing the history of ceramic through different dynasties with the height of ceramic occurring during the qing dynasty.

From the ming period onwards official kilns in jingdezhe. New jingdezhen imperial kiln museum in collaboration with zhu pei architects about us jingdezhen international ceramics is a global platform for connecting artists visitors students and the general public to the history and renewel of jingdezhen. Having produced porcelain for nearly two thousand years jingdezhen today houses one of the world s most impressive collections of chinese ceramic art and artifacts. Nice museum that showcases ancient chinese porcelain but overall site is not as informative as guyao nice place to visit if you have a lot of time in jingdezhen much smaller in comparison to guyao the main ancient kiln site on the west side of town.