Crystalline Glazes: Crystal Flowers grow on China Porcelain

Crystalline Glaze is one exceptional glaze growing into needle-shaped, star, icy quartz and floweriness patterns over a cool down cycle between 1100°C and 1020°C from. Due to different chemical composition, glaze thickness and heat treatment cycles, it is not able to find any crystalline glaze in exactly the same pattern with others in the world.

Chemical composition is the critical factor determining what crystal pattern it would form. It most commonly made of frit, silica, and iron/zinc oxide. Crystalline glaze exists a long time since Sung Dynasty. In the early days, it belongs to iron crystal, which is known as black glaze, such as Yuteki, Rabbit-fur streaks and Tenmoku glaze.





Gradually, crystalline glaze had been evolving into different types, such as tea-dust, eel-yellow and crab-green glaze in Ching Dynasty. Since people had a lack of knowledge of chemical changes, those glazes mostly are named after their patterns and physical appearance.


Nowadays, most popular crystalline glaze in Yingge City is zinc crystal. Its fully rounded crystals present splendid and extraordinary flower-like effect. Even the artists joy over the unexpected from their own pieces.

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Pottery: shaping unique culture into magnificent pieces...

From Wikipedia, Pottery is made by forming a clay body into objects of a required shape and heating them to high temperatures in a kiln ….. For me, furthermore, Pottery is the pieces composed of racial culture, contemporary lifestyle and ancient civilization. Creators infused enthusiasm, emotion and originality into their works. It was applied as living utensils, such as tableware, a pot, bottle, jar or any kind of container in the past. Nowadays, they are home decoration and precious antique. And, it sometime presents as a family heirloom which is a conversion between generations.

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Plum-Blossom Vase: Graceful, Auspicious and Precious Piece

Plum-Blossom Vase is one of common styles among China porcelains. The first plum vase was found by Tong dynasty and fell into the known form by private kiln since Northern Sung Dynasty. Its features are small opening, short neck, wide shoulder, long leg and thin base.

It was ever used as liquor bottle / container at the beginning. One of poets in the Northern-Song Dynastic, Lin Pu, fascinated with its graceful appearance. This plum-blossom enthusiast is fond of preserving plum-blossom in this type of vase. That is the history people name this sort of vase. Nobel lord and high society took pleasure in furnishing them in palace and treasury. Plum-blossom vase, in some respects, is an article of Feng Hui, warding off evil, auspiciousness or mortuary.

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