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Hundreds of teapot shops line the edges of the town's crowded streets and it is a popular tourist destination for many Chinese. While Dīngshān is home to dozens of ceramics factories, Yíxīng Zǐshā Factory Number 1 , which opened in 1958, [ citation needed ] processes a large part of the clay used in the region, produces fine pottery ware ...
Ren Ganting (1889–1968), an ambidextrous artist who created natural forms, participated in the National Labour Heroes Convention. Pei Shimin (1892–1979) started making teapots at age 14. Zhu Kexin (1904–1986) began making teapots before the war and worked in the Jiangsu factory as a youth. He has since received many honours. [1]
Five Yixing clay teapots showing a variety of styles from formal to whimsical. Yixing clay (simplified Chinese: 宜兴泥; traditional Chinese: 宜興泥; pinyin: Yíxīng ní; Wade–Giles: I-Hsing ni) is a type of clay from the region near the city of Yixing in Jiangsu Province, China, used in Chinese pottery since the Song dynasty (960–1279) when Yixing clay was first mined around China's ...
Gu Jingzhou simplified Chinese: 顾景舟; traditional Chinese: 顧景舟; pinyin: Gù Jǐngzhōu (18 October 1915 in Yixing, Jiangsu – 3 June 1996) was a Chinese ceramic artist who specialised in the creation of zisha-ware teapots. He was a founder and Deputy Director of Research and Technology at the Number One Yixing Factory.
During the mid-20th century, Hall China produced a number of renowned designs including the Ball and Donut jugs and the Nautilus, Donut and Aladdin teapots. Hall China attracted talented designers, with examples being Eva Zeisel's "Century" and "Tomorrow's Classic" dinnerware, and "Zeisel" tri-color lines and Donald Schreckengost's cookie jars ...
Redware teapot, Delft, c. 1680, red stoneware imitating Chinese Yixing ware. Redware as a single word is a term for at least two types of pottery of the last few centuries, in Europe and North America. Red ware as two words is a term used for pottery, mostly by archaeologists, found in a very wide range of places. However, these distinct usages ...
Barzilay Freund says, “Antique and vintage ceramics create talking points within a room and can be arranged (and endlessly re-arranged!) in compelling ways—on a mantle, tabletop, or shelf—to ...
The Chinese teapot models were used since preserving the Chinese way of drinking was considered essential. [16] The first known order for teapots "with covers and handles" dates back to 1639. [ 17 ] Porcelain teapots were particularly desirable because porcelain could not be made in Europe back then, and tea drinking in Europe was initially the ...