With
the increase of Shiwan pottery, the taste and art value of the pottery
ran higher and higher instead of its practical value. Potters used the
technique of Chinese painting into the pottery. There were two valuable
points to show the figure pottery of Shiwan in Qing dynasty. One was the
countenance, the other was the clothes. Eyes were the focus to express
one's feeling. Traditional Shiwan pottery had already found a way of rubbing
the eyeball and then filling into the eyes to show the figure more vivid.
The Qing works of "blue clay figure", which had a typical countenance,
is housed in Taiwan library. Shiwan pottery paid attention to the expression
not only in people eyes, but in animal's. A famous man Huangbing in late
of Qing was ever succeeded in scoring the expression of a cat using the
way of rubbing the eyeball and then filling into the eyes. It was said
that a mouse ran away when it saw this black pottery cat, which put on
the desk.
It is different between
Chinese sculpture and western sculpture. Body muscle is the head way
to express one's feeling in western sculpture; however, Shiwan pottery
use the puckers of clothes and the flowing lines to express the feeling.
The china clay used in Shiwan pottery is the mixture of Dongwan gray
clay and the local sand, which has the strong glutinosity and the refinishing,
also fire-resistant. The character of fine refinishing is much better
than the porcelain clay in Dehua and Jingdezhen.
Most of the decorative
pattern on pottery during Ming and Qing had the symbol of happiness
and luck. We sort them according to the pattern. The first kind is to
show the longevity people, such as the plate with cat, the picture with
Chinese characters of 100 "Longevity". The second is to show numerous
children, such as megranate with 100 seeds, the picture with 100 kids.
The third is to show those lucky people, such as the picture of five
bats. The forth is to show those loving people, such as phoenix passing
on peony, mandarin duck playing with lotus. The fifth is to show the
festive people, such as the pied magpie singing on the plum blossom.
The sixth is to show the flush people, such as having fish every year,
happy all over the world. The seventh is to show the safety, such as
plain sailing. The eighth point is to show those excellent people in
their schoolwork, such as carp jumping the heaven gate. The next is
to show those rich people, such as tandem coin, ingot. The last point
is to show those officials, such as getting a position jump.
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two
famous monks
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Li tieguai
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Crab-shaped handing
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Bodhidharma
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A basket with double-crab
design
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