Stoneware on the Silk Roads: Ceramics from the Changsha Kilns
Through March 20, 2020
Museum of Anthropology, Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Early in the 7th century CE, dozens of styles of stoneware began flowing from Chinese kilns onto the shifting network of roads, ocean routes, and desert caravans known as the Silk Roads. The Museum of Anthropology ‘s exhibition focuses on a single style of Chinese stoneware: Changsha Ware produced at the Tongguan Kilns in modern-day Hunan Province. Visitors will learn about the creation of stoneware at the kilns, the transportation routes that carried the pottery throughout the world, and the global consumers that bought and used it through vignettes illustrating each of these topics.
Images courtesy Museum of Anthropology, Wake Forest University.
