Glazed pottery of the Shang (c. 1600 – c. 1050 BCE) and Zhou (c. 1050 – 256 BC) dynasties were fired at high temperatures, but by the mid Western Han (206 BCE – 9 AD), a brown-glazed ceramic was made which was fired at the low temperature of 800 °C , followed by a green-glazed ceramic which became popular in the Eastern Han (25–220 CE).