Ming Chinese Pottery PowerPoint 2025.pptx
- 2. A long time ago, many different civilizations at many different times and in many different places invented pottery. They needed something to hold and store food and water. They discovered that clay could be made into shapes and then dried in the sun. People learned that clay was stronger if it was baked in a fire. In time, people learned how to make glazes to waterproof their pottery. China was first made by the ancient Chinese, which is now it got its name. China is a special type of pottery that allows some light to show through it.
- 3. The earliest pottery was made by hand. At first, people only wanted their pottery to be useful. But as time went on, pottery began to be decorated. Some civilizations invented a potters wheel, which they used to make pottery into interesting shapes. Some painted pottery. Others created colored glazes to decorate it. Others used tools to mark designs into the wet clay. Many vases and pieces of pottery were decorated with scenes of daily life, of war and triumph, of gods and goddesses.
- 4. Fine Chinese porcelain was not only an important art, but also became an important export. During the Ming Dynasty blue and white vases became highly priced and were sold to the rich people throughout Europe and Asia.
- 6. Expert potters used local clay and imported Persian cobalt to create some of the Ming Dynasty’s most popular trade items. Traditional patterns such as the dragon-cloud motif in pottery were, in part, designed for export to the Arab world and, eventually, to Europe. During the chaos following the Ming dynasty’s collapse yrade to Europe were interrupted, spurring the production of Delftware, a blue-and-white Chinese-style porcelain made in Holland.
- 7. At its peak, the Ming dynasty made China a global superpower, influencing the known world in trade, culture and might. It spanned nearly 300 years, from the fall of the Mongols in 1368 to the ascendancy of the Manchus in 1644.