TC58:  35USD/unit
 
1unit: 4 cup as 1unit
 
Name:
Pottery: Jianshui Purple Pottery
Capacity:about 60-140 ml
Gift & Safe Package weight: about 0.5KG 
 
 
 
 
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Jianshui pottery is short for Jianshui artistic pottery, a wonderful style of Chinese artistic earthenware with a history of more than 200 years.
Producing artistic pottery takes a combination of high-quality materials and well-developed techniques, each complementary and indispensable to each other. Jianshui pottery is just the kind of high-quality pottery to result from such a perfect combination. Around Wanyao Village in the suburb of the town of Jianshui, the abundant clay contained in the surrounding area is of excellent quality and suitable for making high-grade pottery due to its fineness, glossiness, and good viscosity. Families of pottery craftsmen have been making Jianshui pottery for generations. Various types of these works are made with 5-color clay through delicate processes like body blank, painting, carving, scraping, clinkering, and polishing. They are beautifully shaped with elegant and antique vintage patterns, and their outsides are fine and glossy. The brightly colored surfaces are shiny and, when you knock on it, the sound is like knocking on bronze and stone tablets. All of these features reflect the strong ancient ethnic flavor of China.
Among so many style variations of Jianshui pottery, the ones with white patterns embedded on the dark black surface are especially precious; beautiful white flowers carved into the shiny black exterior renders a sharp but harmonious color contrast that gives the pottery a very precious and distinctive style.
Jianshui pottery comes in a wide variety of articles including jars, kettles, basins, tea sets, vases, boilers, and many more. The pieces are acid- and damp-proof, and they hold heat yet is permeable by air. With Jianhiu pottery, tea can be preserved for a long time inside the teapots, flowers live long in the vases, and food remains fresher longer in dishware. Of so many styles of product, the Jianshui pottery boiler is the most famous. Food boiled using one of these boiler and water vapor is especially delicious, and the nutrition is retained. The original version of the famous Yunnan dish, boiled chicken with panax notoginseng, is only cooked in a Jianshui pottery boiler.