Low-key luxury: a collection of blue-and-white tea utensils

A seven-rule “pottery song” by Gong Shi, a poet of Qing Dynasty, sums up and appreciates the ceramic craft and aesthetic characteristics of the blue and white flowers in a condensed language. It is fascinating to read, as if the blue and white porcelain, which is as pale as orchid and as warm as jade, were placed in front of him, like a lotus flower in the water. “Though the lead is all washed,”Invisible light is not open, but unlimited charm, gripping!

A good light is like a good man, and a good instrument is like a wise man.It is a wonderful match for a talented girl and a good vessel and a good tea.I love tea, tea and into porcelain, especially love green tea, in a few years, gradually collected nearly 100 pieces of blue and white tea, although more ordinary things, but also a broom from the treasure, quite satisfied!Each leisure time, the tea appreciates the porcelain, in raises the cup to be detailed, the tea fragrance permeates, is relaxed and happy, also quite gets” gets a moment to spare time, reaches ten years dust dream “the artistic conception!

fish algaetwinemountains and riversPatterns, flowers and birds, dragon and phoenix, characters, calligraphy, sets of nine bars, and friends exchange, but also as a record of their own experience!

1. Fish algae

The word “fish algae” comes from “Book of Songs”, and the word” Yu “is the same as fish, which gradually evolves into a symbol of happiness and happiness.With fish as the main body and alga as the auxiliary decoration, the fish-alga pattern consists of a variety of decorative patterns. With its vivid composition, beautiful meaning and rich transformation, it wins people’s love and has extremely rich auspicious cultural connotation and aesthetic interest.

Huanxi ancient kiln blue-and-white fish algal pattern thick pressure hand cup

Huanxi ancient kiln fish algae pattern heavy pressure hand cup

Huanxi ancient kiln fish algae pattern heavy pressure hand cup

Huanxi ancient kiln fish algae pattern heavy pressure hand cup

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II. Clustering of Branches

Twisted-branch pattern is one of the most important and characteristic decorative patterns in traditional blue-and-white porcelain. It is changeable, graceful and graceful, and has the auspicious meaning of continuous growth and stretching for thousands of generations.Contemporary twining tea ware, mostly antique.

Huanxi ancient kiln twining four seasons flower hair cup

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III. Landscape and Landscape

Taking landscape painting is a display of contemporary tea-ware display.On a small teacup, painted with or mountain or water color, fishing singing late, or bridge running water, the road turns to peak back, or lofty majestic, heavy mountains, or snow-covered, firewood door dog barking, the weather is infinite.

I am very fond of blue-and-white landscape tea, especially blue-and-white glaze red landscape painting teacups, often drinking tea to carefully play, quite free-flowing body, send the joy of the landscape mood.

Huanxi Longyao Qingming Shanghetu Juquan Cup

Huanxi Longyao Qingming Shanghetu Juquan Cup

Huanxi Longyao Qingming Shanghetu Juquan Cup

Huanxi Longyao Qingming Shanghetu Juquan Cup

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IV. Texture and Decoration Classes

The decorative patterns are not only the continuous patterns of tangled branches, but also the patterns of flowers, fruits and animals, which represent the good meaning. The common patterns are “three multi-lines”,” lotus bat pattern “,” Shoutao pattern “,” Eight Treasures pattern “,” Three Friends of the Year “and so on.

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V. Flower Birds

The flower-and-bird tea utensils are very popular with tea-lovers.Many of them use fine Chinese painting into porcelain, the composition is ingenious, the outline is delicate, the dot is vivid, a small tea cup is a fine and vivid Chinese painting, full of poetic and painting, quite a scholar’s elegance!

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VI. Dragon and phoenix

In China’s traditional culture, the dragon has yang power, wind and rain, phoenix has a soft beauty, flying nine days, are the representatives of auspicious.In tea utensils, the dragon and phoenix are also mostly in pairs, meaning “dragon and phoenix and ming”, “dragon and phoenix are the symbol of happy and happy traditional marriage.

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VII. Characters

It is said that the characters of tea is the most rare products!Indeed, between a few inches, a few pen will make the characters eye-catching, vivid image, not with high-level skills of the painter can not achieve the same!

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VIII. Calligraphy

Poetry for the heart, painting for the heart!In recent years, there have been more and more tea utensils decorated with calligraphy. Among them, there are many works of poetry, aesthetics and scriptural warning words, such as exhortation, emotion and wisdom, as well as many tea utensils that imitate the representative works of famous calligraphers in ancient times.Calligraphy tea-maker’s style is obvious, with a higher degree of identification, popular by tea friends!

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9. Set Class

The representative works of three sets from three kilns are the most treasured tea utensils in my collection.We are pleased to present a group photograph of the family!

Huanxi Longyao Qingming Shanghetu Juquan Cup

Huanxi Longyao Qingming Shanghetu Juquan Cup

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