Gallery201
Exhibition nameThe Magic of Kneaded Clay: Ceramic Collection of the National Palace Museum
Height: 24 cm, Mouth diameter: 11 cm, Foot diameter: 6 cm
During the Shandon Longshan Culture, the technique of using a potting wheel to produce ceramic objects was developed. Vessels with very thin walls could be made, and even carved with openwork patterns, in what became known as "egg-shell pottery". In the kiln, the adding of carbon at the very end or closing the air intake would cause carburiztion and create black pottery.