Chinese porcelain – specifically Jingdezhen porcelain – enjoys a history that is almost as expansive as China itself.
For travelers to Shanghai, a firsthand experience of China’s best porcelain and ceramics can be found at Jingdezhen Porcelain Artware Co.
Expect to find examples of the finest quality traditional Chinese porcelain. Yes, there are serious nods to all things blue and white, but you’ll also find a veritable trove of other unique and one-off porcelain treasures in every colour.
Serious collectors – or those simply wanting a special memento from their travels – can indulge themselves at Jingdezhen Porcelain Artware Co. As a state-owned enterprise, Jingdezhen Porcelain Artware Co enjoys access to wonderful skilled master artisans and ceramists who create the beautiful artworks available in store.
Want to learn more about what makes Jingdezhen porcelain so special? Let’s share its secrets with you.
Why is Jingdezhen porcelain so treasured?
It seems the creativity of the Chinese couldn’t be confined when it came to the art of Jingdezhen porcelain.
Originating during the Han Dynasty, this unique art form continued to evolve through the course of five successive dynasties. Good things take time, after all!
Jingdezhen is actually a remote town in the south of China. Its proximity to quality deposits of porcelain stone and surrounding forests which provided wood for kilns made it the ideal place for production of imperial porcelain.
The masterful artisans who created the pieces, both past and present, have long been acknowledged for their skill at producing white porcelain, which is one of the reasons Jingdezhen porcelain is highly valued by collectors of antique porcelain all over the world.
Looking closely at any piece of Jingdezhen porcelain you’ll discover its unique appearance. In fact, in all its forms, Jingdezhen porcelain has been described poetically by local Chinese people ‘as thin as paper, white as jade, bright as a mirror, and producing the sound of a bell’. It’s not hard to see why so many people are captivated by its allure.
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