Author name: Jianle Liu

Soup spoon with colorful flowers and butterflies on yellow ground

This object belongs to the long argument about Chinese porcelain: a porcelain body, thrown, glazed and fired until the surface turns to glass. the Imperial…

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Lu Yao’s landscape album

This album is a landscape painting, the Chinese picture made to be unrolled or unpinned a section at a time rather than seen all at once. the Imperial pain…

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Blue and white floral pattern ewer

The piece is a ewer, and Blue-and-white porcelain is the technique that decides how it reads. The pattern is laid before firing, so the colour sits under a…

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Li Wen Fish and Butterfly Picture Album

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Imitation Jun rose purple glaze plate

The piece is a plate, and Porcelain is the technique that decides how it reads. The pattern is laid before firing, so the colour sits under a clear glaze,…

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Zhang Xiong Four Seasons Flower Screen

This screen is a ink, the Chinese picture made to be unrolled or unpinned a section at a time rather than seen all at once. the Imperial painter’s hand tha…

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Doucai consecrated jar with lotus pattern and folded branches

This jar belongs to the long argument about Chinese porcelain: a doucai (contrasting-colour) porcelain body, thrown, glazed and fired until the surface tur…

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Lu Yao’s landscape album

The album is landscape painting, and the medium decides the pace. Ink and colour on silk or paper ask to be read slowly, the eye led rather than struck.

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