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This set of tea sets is truly a hodgepodge of various craftsmanship styles. The clay material used is jade clay. The glaze used is a transparent glaze. This makes it convenient to observe the color of the tea soup. The surface is coated with natural black lacquer. Then print the intact maple leaves. There is a large amount of gold liquid on the maple leaves, so the texture of the leaves appears to have a faint metallic sheen. The current price of gold is too high, but the finished products are quite good, aren't they?

I'm very happy to have spent so much time learning ceramic painting. This is the first time I received a real Chinese-style painting order. My long-term efforts have been recognized.

My friend is starting his own business. To wish him success in his career, I'm drawing a dragon cup. In China, this symbolizes rising rapidly in status or achieving success in one's career. Apart from making ceramics, I can't do anything. This is the best wish I could come up with.

The porcelain made during the Ming and Qing dynasties in China was truly extremely difficult to produce! Even for us, seasoned professionals in the ceramics industry for ten years, we found it extremely challenging. We attempted to recreate this plate, and it took us three months to successfully produce this prototype. But how to put it? The old stuff really has a unique feeling.

The new porcelain artist we have collaborated :Tong Zhihao's piece. We say his work is quite good, but he always wants to seek some different opinions or suggestions.

Recently, I study the skill at a modern kiln called Heni Atelier. and I believe many people have seen such ceramic that loos extremely complicated. In China, these ceramic style is called "Wan Hua"(万花), literally "ten thousands flowers". I captured the process of my classmates making vases and decorative items. There are still a few finished products of the tea sets I made. I have to admit that this is indeed a very lengthy project. It takes me four hours to draw just one cup. What do you think of these?

The two-month blue porcelain course has come to an end. My teacher gave me a blue porcelain dragon cup that he made as a graduation gift. What do you all think of him?

You should be able to notice that my second post about kiln mouths has disappeared. It's possible that I said too much and it was regarded as a commercial advertisement. So I think I have to emphasize at the beginning of each article that this is purely for sharing and does not involve any commercial activities.

 

Today, I would like to share the works of my ceramic art teacher when I was studying in China. His name is Er Kang, a very tall but also very gentle person. I shouldn't have included him in this series, but he has indeed given me a deeper understanding of Eastern aesthetics.

 

Er Kang is extremely skilled at ancient-style tea sets, whether they are made of coarse pottery or fine pottery. As someone who has only been involved in pottery for a year, to be honest, I don't really like the old-fashioned stuff. They seem rather dull and rough. Perhaps beginners always like to make things in strange shapes as a way to express themselves in a certain way. Maybe only I do this.

 

Er Kang mainly focuses on teaching rather than making ceramics, so it's rare to see his works. Therefore, since I stayed in Jingdezhen for a sufficient length of time, I was able to wait until the teacher had produced a series of new tea sets.

 

It's difficult for me to explain this to all of you. This feeling, at first glance, seems quite ordinary, right? However, his technique is extremely excellent. And if you look at it for long enough, you will notice that these tea sets are very gentle and have many variations. They are not as serious as many of the ancient-style tea sets.

 

A large amount of blank space was used, along with some crushed wood ash for decoration, and there were also some gradient effects. All of these look very natural and do not feel overly obtrusive.

 

I don't know how this was achieved, or if it's just my own illusion. Maybe I over-interpreted it because he was my teacher? I'm not sure. What do you all think? Do you find these works visually appealing?