Ge ware
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Ge ware or Ko ware is a type of celadon or greenware in Chinese pottery. It was one of the Five Great Kilns of the Song dynasty recognised by later Chinese writers, but has remained rather mysterious
Ge ware incense burner with fish-shaped handles, Palace Museum
Ge-type vase, with "gold thread and iron wire" double crackle
Ge-type vase, with "gold thread and iron wire" double crackle, Song dynasty, Palace Museum
18th-century imitation of Ge ware in Jingdezhen porcelain, with single crackle pattern
Guan ware
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Guan ware or Kuan ware is one of the Five Famous Kilns of Song dynasty China, making high-status stonewares, whose surface decoration relied heavily on crackled glaze, randomly crazed by a network of
Ge ware
…distinguishing feature is deliberate crackle, or a network of cracks in the glaze; but this is not restricted to them, and in particular the related Guan ware uses very similar effects. Ge ware often shows "double crackle" or crackle of two types, and one view is that this is the defining characteristic of…
Guan ware celadon bowl with hibiscus-shaped rim, Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279). National Palace Museum
Small Guan bowl on legs (some 3 inches across), with pronounced type 3 glaze crackle
Mallet-shaped vase, Guan ware, 12th–13th century, with type 1 crackle
Bowl with type 2 crackle and lobed rim