The Influence Of Overseas Demands On Jingdezhen Ceramic In Ming And Qing Dynasty

This dissertation take Ming and Qing Dynasties’Jingdezhen ceramics as the object of study, regard it as a material media of communication in art and culture. Accordingly, inspect different market demands formed by life style, religions, culture in different districts. And then analyze the impact of different demands on Jingdezhen ceramic art and the culture self-consciousness of potters.The main market of Jingdezhen ceramics differed from early Ming to Qing Dynasty. From countries in Asia and Africa to Europe and America successively. Various demands formed different features of Jingdezhen ceramics exported to different countries, and the change of main markets influenced Jingdezhen ceramic industry in different periods. Therefore, the dissertation will discuss the diversity demands of the four main markets divided by spatial dimension, and include the change of main markets by time dimension.Overseas market demands are feedbacks of export porcelain from people in different cultures. The demands in shapes of porcelain reflect the difference in daily utensil, the demands in types and decorations of porcelain related to the athletics and even values judgment, cultural acceptance and identification. The dissertation will analyze the features of export porcelains to different districts by type, shape and decoration three aspects, and spell out the direct and important promoting effect of the three aspects. Thence, Jingdezhen potters combine traditional and external art expressions, transit the external factors of overseas market demands into inner factors of potters innovation and self-consciousness, and therefore form the diversity of Jingdezhen ceramic art.When the diverse demands propelled the development of Jingdezhen ceramic industry, the large scale of overseas markets demands and continuous exporting were also an affirmation to the skill of potters and cultural value of porcelain. Meantime, the pragmatic learning thought rose in Ming and Qing Dynasty also affirmed the value of handicraft art which has a low statue in past. The affirmation came from external and internal evoked the cultural self-consciousness of Jingdezhen potters, improved and strengthened the statue of ceramic art eventually.