Chinese Glazes: Their Origins, Chemistry, and Recreation

by Nigel Wood

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 2000

Chinese glazes have been admired throughout history for their extraordinary qualities and colors--not least in China itself, where their appearance has been compared variously to jade, to tea-dust, to hare's fur, or to the "color of the sky after the rain." Some Chinese glazes are vibrant and brilliant in tone, while others are deep, complex, and subtle, their properties...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812234766
• ISBN13: 9780812234763
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 3.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"