What cutlery was used in China in the 15th Century:

What cutlery was used in China in the 15th Century:

Celadon:
Glazed ceramic porcelain known as having a 'Celadon Glaze' was developed in Korea in the 10th and 11th centuaries and was firmly in place in China during the 13th and 15th centuaries. An internationally known producer of these artifacts was the 'Longquan Workshops' which for all intents and purposes be the supplier for our Junk. The material is reflective, with a high specular highlight in some cases. It has a cracked texture as if it dries on the surface relitivly quickley, then as the rest of the glaze is fired, it expands and cracks to form this easily distinguishable pattern.
Ru Ware:
Similar to the Longquan Celadon, maybe slightly less poplular than Celadon. This has the same cracked textures, however the over all colour is a brighter more whiteish colour, infused with red cracks due to the inclusion of iron oxide in the glaze. Maybe some of the officers or higher crew of the Junk would use Ru Ware.
Ding Ware:
a yellow/whitish Unglazed Pottery which came mainly out of Beijing. It would be great if we could include some of these in our Junk as they had rims of gold or silver, which could look really nice, although the high production time for this kind of ware was the 12th centuary.


Examples of Celadon:

 Reliefed Texture, small amount of specular colour, low reflectivity. Small varience of green Celadon Colour.

 High Reflectivity and Specular Colour. More or less flat coulour, saturation of Celadon moving from green to grey in places.

 Extreeemly high reflectivity, areas of specular colour. Very pronounced Cracklled Texture under Glaze

 Pattern in High Relief from geometry of the pot. Soft Celadon, High White Ballance, Small points of Specular Colour. No Reflectivity

 Varied Textutes, smooth on the inside with an area of un-glazed  pottery. Scatterd Specular colour gives away an un-even texture.

 Highly concerntraited areas of Celadon Glaze, Strong relief of Patten within the bowls structual geometry.

 Almost plastic like specular, more or less flat colour, high reflectivity.

 High Contrast between areas of Glaze. Due to this being the only example of this type of glaze i hesitate wether to use it in our project

Qingbai wares:

Blue and White Examples: (maybe slightly outside of our dynasty)