About Longquan Celadon
Longquan celadon is a glaze, not a graphic. For three centuries the kilns of Zhejiang stacked thick, iron-rich slips on a grey-white porcelaneous body and fired them in reduction until the surface pooled a pale, semi-opaque blue-green — kinuta's cool jade, meiziqing's deeper plum-green. The surface itself is the subject: soft, matte-to-satin, often laced with a fine ice-crackle network.
This system treats the page as a glazed plane. Backgrounds carry the dusty fenqing green; panels read like thicker pools of the same slip; type sits in quiet songti serifs and the occasional brushed ceramic mark. The single warm note is the unglazed foot-ring — the russet the iron body fires where the glaze pulls away — used sparingly as a grounding accent.
- Origin
- Longquan kilns, Zhejiang, southern China; East Asia
- Era
- Song dynasty, 10th–13th century; pre-1900 ceramic tradition
- Key figures
- Anonymous Longquan kiln potters · Song-era literati ceramicists · Later studio revivalists
- Movements
- Chinese celadon glaze tradition · Song stoneware · Literati ceramic taste
Longquan Celadon design spec
Colors
Typography
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