磁州窑是中国传统制瓷工艺的珍品，中国古代北方最大的民窑体系，也是著名的民间瓷窑，有"南有景德，北有彭城"之说。磁州窑创烧于北宋中期，并达到鼎盛，南宋、元明清仍有延续。窑址在今河北省邯郸市峰峰矿区的彭城镇和磁县的观台镇一带，磁县宋代叫磁州，故名。

磁州窑的匠师们吸收了传统的水墨画和书法艺术的技法，创造了具有水墨画风的白地黑绘装饰艺术，开启了中国瓷器彩绘装饰的先河。

磁州窑品种诸多，以白地黑花(铁锈花)、刻划花、窑变黑釉最为著名。它的装饰技法突破了当时流行的五大名(官)窑(汝、官、钧、哥、定)的单色釉局限，运用了数十种丰富多彩的装饰技法。"Cizhou kiln is a treasure of China's traditional porcelain making technology. The largest folk kiln system in the north of China in ancient times is also a famous folk porcelain kiln. Maozhou kiln was burned in the middle of the northern song dynasty and reached its peak. The kiln site is located in the present pengcheng town of fengfeng mining area, handan city, hebei province and guantai town of magnetic county.
The craftsmen of the maozhou kiln absorbed the traditional techniques of ink painting and calligraphy, created the art of white and black painting decoration with ink painting style, and opened the precedent of China's porcelain painting decoration.
There are many kinds of kilns in maozhou, most famous for white ground black flower (rust flower), engraved flower and kiln black glaze. Its decorative techniques broke through the limitation of monochrome glaze in the five famous kilns (ru, guan, jun, ge, ding), and applied dozens of colorful decorative techniques.