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Blanc de Chine: Unique name given to Dehua white porcelain
8 months, 1 week ago

Blanc de Chine: Unique name given to Dehua white porcelain

China Daily  

Tracing back to the Xia and Shang dynasties, the Dehua kilns, renowned for their exquisite white porcelain or "Blanc de Chine" as recognized by French connoisseurs, have endured in popularity throughout the ages. Salvaged from the Song Dynasty shipwreck Nanhai One, the Dehua four-looped jar, finished in a bluish white glaze and encasing four small bottles, captures scenes of ancient …

Song Porcelain Blanc De Chine Dehua Chine Unique
A skill that ignites the imagination
1 year, 3 months ago

A skill that ignites the imagination

China Daily  

JORGE CORTES/LIN QI/CHINA DAILY/NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CHINA 01 Shang and Zhou dynasties and proto-porcelain The period saw the birth of "proto-porcelain", a product in the transition from pottery to "mature" ones, known to people today as porcelain. 02 Late Eastern Han Dynasty and mature porcelain Regions along the Cao'e River in Shangyu, in today's Zhejiang province, became a center for …

Dynasty Zhejiang Ming Ware Porcelain Kilns
A skill that ignites the imagination
1 year, 3 months ago

A skill that ignites the imagination

China Daily  

JORGE CORTES/LIN QI/CHINA DAILY/NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CHINA 01 Shang and Zhou dynasties and proto-porcelain The period saw the birth of "proto-porcelain", a product in the transition from pottery to "mature" ones, known to people today as porcelain. 02 Late Eastern Han Dynasty and mature porcelain Regions along the Cao'e River in Shangyu, in today's Zhejiang province, became a center for …

Dynasty Zhejiang Ming Ware Porcelain Kilns
When porcelain was the original 'made in China' sensation
1 year, 3 months ago

When porcelain was the original 'made in China' sensation

China Daily  

A vase with tiger design from the Southern Song Dynasty. During the late Qing Dynasty, under the influence of the West, Chinese porcelain was being made in colors other than the green favored by the Song Dynasty.Some makers used glass and enamel techniques introduced from Europe to produce the multicolored ceramics loved by the imperial family at the Forbidden City. …

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Mastering an ancient art
1 year, 9 months ago

Mastering an ancient art

China Daily  

Wang Junzi explains the essence of Ru porcelain making to Song Zhaobing, one of his disciples, at his workshop in Qingliangsi village, Henan province. "I shared our Ru porcelain culture with artists from abroad and also got a better look at what has recently been going on with porcelain development," says Wang, who is from Qingliangsi village, Baofeng county, Pingdingshan …

Wang Henan Porcelain Qingliangsi Village
Mastering an ancient art
1 year, 9 months ago

Mastering an ancient art

China Daily  

Wang Junzi explains the essence of Ru porcelain making to Song Zhaobing, one of his disciples, at his workshop in Qingliangsi village, Henan province. "I shared our Ru porcelain culture with artists from abroad and also got a better look at what has recently been going on with porcelain development," says Wang, who is from Qingliangsi village, Baofeng county, Pingdingshan …

Wang Porcelain Qingliangsi Village Village Henan Qingliangsi Village Henan
A decorated career
2 years, 1 month ago

A decorated career

China Daily  

Huang Xiaoling paints with an ink brush on a porcelain vase at her workshop. Liling city is famous for its underglaze five-colored porcelain, and one artist keeps the tradition alive, report Wang Ru and Feng Zhiwei in Changsha. However, when Huang put a porcelain piece in front of Deng, he could recognize it and even drew some patterns. Dedicated to …

Huang Porcelain Liling
A decorated career
2 years, 1 month ago

A decorated career

China Daily  

Huang Xiaoling paints with an ink brush on a porcelain vase at her workshop. Liling city is famous for its underglaze five-colored porcelain, and one artist keeps the tradition alive, report Wang Ru and Feng Zhiwei in Changsha. However, when Huang put a porcelain piece in front of Deng, he could recognize it and even drew some patterns. Dedicated to …

Huang Porcelain Liling
A decorated career
2 years, 1 month ago

A decorated career

China Daily  

Huang Xiaoling paints with an ink brush on a porcelain vase at her workshop. Liling city is famous for its underglaze five-colored porcelain, and one artist keeps the tradition alive, report Wang Ru and Feng Zhiwei in Changsha. However, when Huang put a porcelain piece in front of Deng, he could recognize it and even drew some patterns. Dedicated to …

Huang Porcelain Liling Decorated Career
Jiangle ceramics
3 years, 11 months ago

Jiangle ceramics

China Daily  

Yu Xueyun appreciates a Jiangle porcelain piece at his home in Jiangle county, Fujian province. Until December, Yu Xueyun, a collector of antique porcelain pieces in Sanming, Fujian province, donated more than 1,500 selected items to public museums in hopes that the art can be better protected. In the past 30 years, Yu, 50, spent about 30 million yuan in …

Porcelain Jiangle
Porcelain power
4 years ago

Porcelain power

China Daily  

A rare variety of ancient celadon, whose production technique was lost more than a millennium ago, has captivated the public's imagination. They were 13 pieces of the legendary mise celadon, discovered in 1987 in Famen Temple's underground palace in Baoji, Shaanxi province, when work was being done on the holy site. Prior to the discovery, people could only imagine its …

Celadon Mise Celadon Mise
Porcelain power
4 years ago

Porcelain power

China Daily  

A rare variety of ancient celadon, whose production technique was lost more than a millennium ago, has captivated the public's imagination. They were 13 pieces of the legendary mise celadon, discovered in 1987 in Famen Temple's underground palace in Baoji, Shaanxi province, when work was being done on the holy site. Prior to the discovery, people could only imagine its …

Celadon Mise Celadon Porcelain Power Mise Ware
Porcelain power
4 years ago

Porcelain power

China Daily  

A rare variety of ancient celadon, whose production technique was lost more than a millennium ago, has captivated the public's imagination. They were 13 pieces of the legendary mise celadon, discovered in 1987 in Famen Temple's underground palace in Baoji, Shaanxi province, when work was being done on the holy site. Prior to the discovery, people could only imagine its …

Celadon Mise Celadon Porcelain Power Mise Ware
Porcelain power
4 years ago

Porcelain power

China Daily  

A rare variety of ancient celadon, whose production technique was lost more than a millennium ago, has captivated the public's imagination. They were 13 pieces of the legendary mise celadon, discovered in 1987 in Famen Temple's underground palace in Baoji, Shaanxi province, when work was being done on the holy site. Prior to the discovery, people could only imagine its …

Celadon Mise Celadon Mise