... my years of art study I was always most interested in pottery. I spent years throwing pottery on the wheel. I experimented extensively with different types of clay, glazes and firing techniques. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art Collections, I chose to look at various pieces of pottery. From the Asian Art Collection I chose highlight #17 of 50. It is a large jar made of porcelain, which ... is a special very soft pure clay, first developed in China. It requires an extremely high firing temperature. It was made during the Choson dynasty (1392 - 1910), 18th - 19th ... Assyrian city of ...

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... (1570-1045 bc). The earliest Chinese literary works date from the Western Zhou dynasty (1045-771 bc). Chinese poetry, often personal and lyrical in tone, reached a high point during the Tang dynasty (ad 618-907). New forms of verse based on the structures of well-known songs were popular ... about 6000 bc. The Chinese consider their unbroken tradition of art one of the central achievements of Chinese culture, and art of various kinds has always been held in high regard. For the last 2,000 years, the art form that has enjoyed the greatest prestige has been calligraphy, in ... leading cu...

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