Jingdezhen Ceramic History Museum

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.

Jingdezhen ceramic history museum.

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. International recognized and admired this is a recently open museum. By the 14th century it had become the largest centre of production of chinese porcelain which it has remained increasing its dominance in subsequent centuries. 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.

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. The original name is ceramic history museum. 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.

Nowadays jingdezhen ceramic folk custom museum is a professional ceramic museum covering an area of about 83 hectares. Now it is principle part of the jingdezhen ancient kiln and folk custom expo area. Studio pei zhu completes the imperial kiln museum in a historical area of jingdezhen known as the porcelain capital of the world. 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.

From the ming period onwards official kilns in jingdezhe. 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. No 1 zijing rd jingdezhen jiangxi province china. There are 5 main halls detailing the history of ceramic through different dynasties with the height of ceramic occurring during the qing dynasty.

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. Jingdezhen ceramic folk custom museum locates in the panlongshan in the western suburb of jingdezhen city. The region which had produced and exported pottery for. Jingdezhen is supposed to be the most important city for chinese ceramics porcelain of the country.