Jingdezhen Ceramic History Museum is located in the Panlong Mountains, outside the city of Jingdezhen in Jiangxi Province. The architecture of the Museum is the Ming and Qing style buildings, including display halls, workshops, glazing areas, stores, residences, a library, administrative areas, and other structures.
July 21, Global Times - Jingdezhen ( ) is a prefecture-level city, previously a town in Jiangxi Province. It is known as the "Porcelain Capital" because it has been producing quality pottery for 1,700 years. The city has a well-documented history that stretches back over 2,000 years.
Jingdezhen's natural resources include kaolin. It is the kaolin that has made the city famous in China and the world. For over a millennium, its unique kaolin has enabled Jingdezhen to make high-quality porcelain.
Jingdezhen's porcelain has been famous not only in China but in the world. It became known internationally for being "as thin as paper, as white as jade, as bright as a mirror, and as sound as a bell". The late Guo Moruo, a senior official who was also a famous historian and scholar of China wrote a poem that says, "China is well known in the world for its porcelain, and Jingdezhen is the most well-known centre, with the highest quality porcelain in China".
Most Jingdezhen porcelain is valued by collectors of antique porcelain throughout the world. According to media reports, a blue and white porcelain jar produced in Jingdezhen during the Yuan Dynasty was auctioned for the equivalent of 230,000,000 yuan in London, UK in July 12, 2005.
This was the highest price achieved by a piece of porcelain in the history of all porcelain auctions of the world. The reason for the high price is experts believe that the blue and white Yuan Dynasty porcelain has a dominant position in the history of Chinese ceramics. It represents the summit of the development of Chinese blue and white porcelain.
Many hot destinations for tour in Jingdezhen city are Jingdezhen Ceramic History Museum, Hutian Ancient Kiln Site, Jingdezhen International Porcelain Exhibition (this exhibition is duly operated by the local authority; there is an international porcelain exhibition center to massively show the culture of porcelain), China's Porcelain Town (a large-scale base for porcelain exchange), China's Porcelain Garden of Changnan, Jingdezhen Porcelain Hall, Porcelain Street and so on. Generally speaking, this is a city strongly characterized by porcelain culture.
Jingdezhen porcelain exhibitions over the past years
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