page_title: Five Great Kilns
hierarchical_section_title: Five Great Kilns
caption_attribution_description: English: Wares of this sort were made for use by the last Northern Song [Sung] emperor (who reigned from 1101 until 1125), but some authorities believe that this vessel and others like it (in the National Palace Museum, Taipei) were made during the Ming [Ming] Dynasty.
context_page_description: The Five Great Kilns, also known as Five Famous Kilns, is a generic term for ceramic kilns or wares which produced Chinese ceramics during the Song dynasty that were later held in particularly high esteem. The group were only so called by much later writers, and of the five, only two seem to have produced wares directly ordered by the Imperial court, though all can be of very high quality. All were imitated later, often with considerable success.
  All except Ding ware made celadon, and in Western terms the celadon kilns are stoneware, rather than the Ding early porcelain. The celadons placed great emphasis on elegant forms, and their ceramic glazes, and were otherwise lightly decorated, with no painting.
  The five kilns produced respectively:
  Ru ware
  Jun ware
  Guan ware
  Ding ware
  Ge ware
context_section_description: The Five Great Kilns (Chinese: 五大名窯; pinyin: Wu da ming yao), also known as Five Famous Kilns, is a generic term for ceramic kilns or wares (in Chinese 窯 yao can mean either) which produced Chinese ceramics during the Song dynasty (960–1279) that were later held in particularly high esteem.  The group were only so called by much later writers, and of the five, only two (Ru and Guan) seem to have produced wares directly ordered by the Imperial court, though all can be of very high quality.  All were imitated later, often with considerable success.
  All except Ding ware made celadon, and in Western terms the celadon kilns are stoneware, rather than the Ding early porcelain.  The celadons placed great emphasis on elegant forms, and their ceramic glazes, and were otherwise lightly decorated, with no painting.
  The five kilns produced respectively: 
  Ru ware (汝)
  Jun ware (钧)
  Guan ware (官)
  Ding ware (定)
  Ge ware (哥)
caption: Spittoon stoneware with Jun ware glaze, Song or Ming dynasty
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