Chinese candle holder Candle Holder (ceramic)

Some researchers also believe that when Candle Holder reaches the ceramic stage, its creativity is obviously insufficient, so they don't like to continue combing.
It has to be said that before the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the lampstand and Candle Holder can be said to be the eruption period of artistic modeling. However, in the period when ceramics were mainly used, that is, after the Southern and Northern Dynasties, their shapes, especially the original shapes, were almost less, and they were stylized. The phenomenon is more serious.
But this is only from the point of view of artistic creativity. From the perspective of craftsmanship, the ceramic firing technology of ceramic lamp holders and candle holders has become more and more mature. Any art category has a period of emergence, development, prosperity, decline and even extinction. Lampstand and Candle Holder are no exception. The development of ceramic technology enabled the expensive bronze lampstands and candlesticks to gradually enter the upper class, and finally retreated to temples and even withdrew from history. This is the law of the development of things. In addition to necessities, the development of technology will inevitably revolutionize non-essential products.
Ceramic lampstands and candlesticks produced some works of great aesthetic value during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, and even the Ming and Qing Dynasties. We can't always expect all the works to be amazing, but as a display of the development of a certain art category, we might as well take a look and understand more so that we can grasp it as a whole.