Introduction to the history and characteristics of Jianshui purple pottery

Jianshui ceramics has a long history and is an important part of China ceramics. As early as 3500 years ago, the primitive pottery industry appeared. In the Han dynasty, there were more perfect pottery, and in the Song dynasty, mature celadon was fired. From Yuan Dynasty to Ming Dynasty, Jianshui blue-and-white porcelain industry entered its heyday and became the center of producing ceramics in Yunnan Province, second only to Jingdezhen in Jiangxi Province. Its products are exported to the inside and outside of the province and Southeast Asia, which has a wide influence and is regarded as a part of China's "National Porcelain". Since the Qing Dynasty, the purple pottery fired by Jianshui has been famous at home and abroad, and it is unique in the world with its unique artistic style of painting and calligraphy.

Glaze polishing is the biggest feature that distinguishes Jianshui Zitao from other pottery products. A good work needs seven or eight processes. It can only be done with a polishing tool that is coarse first and then fine. The fire skin is polished with coarse sand, then the wire drawing is polished with fine sand, and finally it is polished with pebbles. After careful and complicated technology, the original dull and rough ceramic blank is polished into mirror light, and its delicate texture and luster changes will make you fondle admiringly in repeated exhibitions.

Glaze-free polishing, that is, the blank is not glazed, and the sintered product can keep fresh and smooth through grinding and polishing. Once the percussion instrument is powerful, it can be said that "the body is like iron, the color is like copper, the sound is like stone, the light is like a mirror, and the light can know people", which forms a unique feature different from pottery, and it can be said that "the pottery altar is a show".

Jianshui Purple Pottery is as famous as "Jiangsu Yichang Purple Pottery, Sichuan Rongchang Pottery and Guangxi Qinzhou Pottery" and is also called "Four Famous Pottery" in China. Its essence lies in: hand-made clay, hand-painted painting, celebrity calligraphy and painting decoration, hand-carved, scraped and polished without glaze, which is also the only art in China that embodies the perfect integration of ceramic art and calligraphy and painting.

First, tea set teapot series

Purple pottery teapot is made by a unique unglazed polishing process, which has excellent air permeability and becomes the best "dry warehouse" storage environment for Pu 'er tea. Using purple pottery teapot to soak Pu 'er tea has the effect of keeping tea taste, fragrance overflowing and refreshing. At the same time, the unique painting and calligraphy art on purple pottery products gives consideration to practicality and collection. In recent years, this series of products are highly sought after and treasured by Pu 'er tea lovers.

Second, vases, flower plugs and flowerpots series

Purple pottery vases are dignified and elegant, with beautiful shapes and myriad manners, and the flower arrangement does not fade for a long time.

Third, the school supplies series

This series of products are exquisite in workmanship, full of luster, simple and generous, and pleasing to the eye on the desk.

Purple pottery in Jianshui County, Yunnan Province

Jianshui purple pottery has a long history. According to experts' research, "Song has blue porcelain, Yuan has blue and white porcelain, Ming has coarse pottery and Qing has purple pottery". Purple pottery is the product of refining and sublimation after the precipitation of ceramic culture in past dynasties. Its unique production technology and modeling, elegant and simple, high-grade and exquisite appearance have been deeply loved by the world since its inception. It prevailed in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, declined during the Cultural Revolution, and now it is revived. It is a treasure that China ceramic industry is expected to shine again.