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As the old Chinese idiom goes, "it is necessary to have effective tools to do good work." It refers to ordinary labor and creations. As a material activity, tea art...

From Shunzhi Period to the early-Kangxi Period, the development of Yixing Zisha was at a low ebb. The potters at this time were no any records on the historical documents....

The three periods of Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong in early-Qing Dynasty were the golden age of developments of Qing Dynasty. Regions south of the Yangtze River at this time, economic was...

The inscriptions of purple clay teapots, as same as the modelling of purple clay teapots, later generation always imitate the predecessors. We could not tell the style characters apart of...

According to the archaeological finds, the purple clay teapot with loop handle which is unearthed from Nanjing Wujing's Tomb is the earliest discovered purple clay teapot with exact date, but...

The inscriptions of Yixing purple clay teapots are differ in thousands ways. It is quite difficult to do research on this. There is no inscription in early period of purple...

The essential mineral of Zisha pugs are rock quartz, mica,clay and hematite, etc, they formed a symbiotic crumb structure. During the firing process, further formed the double stomatal structure. This...

The decoration of purple clay teapot The decorative crafts is the extreme important method of raising the traditional porcelain quality and art values. Especially for the Yixing Zisha teapots, it...

About the deduction of traditional ceramic arts should be the considerative integrant elements of contemporary potters and ceramists. In contemporary art as the background, not to be restricted by the...

The book of Records of Famous Teapots in Yangxian said, "Dong Han,started to make the Ling-flower pattern ware, and they were exquisite already". What is Ling-flower? It is a kind...

Many categories of bamboo in Yixing such as moso bamboo, pale bamboo, hard bamboo, orange bamboo,etc. People always thought plant bamboo was better than plant some flowers in the old...