"Ceramic Metropolis" of China - Jingdezhen

China is the birthplace of porcelain. In English, the world China refers to the Peoples’ Republic of China, as well as to porcelain. With its significant historical and artistic value, Chinese porcelain has played an important role in world cultural history.

The porcelain from Jingdezhen town in Jiangxi Province is the masterpieces of China and is world renowned. Particularly in the 1000 years since the Song Dynasty, the artistic style of Jingdezhen town porcelain has developed mainly because of the contribute of a number of porcelain masters and their many excellent creations of porcelain art.

Selection of Ceramic

Porcelain has always been the perfect combination of scientific technology and classical art. Both as a work of art and as an item of merchandise, each piece of superb porcelain possesses an artistic value for collectors.

For more than 1000 years, Jingdezhen has produced a great variety of porcelain. In order to make the best selection of porcelain made in the different dynasties, we took into consideration suggestions made by experts and authorities of Jingdezhen porcelain. The porcelain chosen comes from the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, as well as from modern times. Six items from dynasties were finally selected to represent the porcelain masterpieces, based on their historical value, appreciation of their artistic appearance, their value to collectors and their potential value.

Jingdezhen porcelain is completely hand made and the design and production processes are vary complicated. The artist manages dozens of complex procedures, such as selection of the raw clay, the molding of the clay, designing the patter, coloring, firing and so on.