Author name: Jianle Liu

Yun Shouping’s Book of Flowers and Birds

The album is flowers-and-birds painting, and the medium decides the pace. Ink and colour on silk or paper ask to be read slowly, the eye led rather than st…

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Malachite green glaze bowl

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

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Wei Zhihuang landscape fan

The fan 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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Sun Yi’s Landscape Book

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 lotus pattern covered jar

The piece is a jar, 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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Huayan flower album

This album 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 that…

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Jianyang kiln black glaze rabbit hair lamp

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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Woodblock watermark Hu Ricong et al. Shizhuzhai genealogy album

This album 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 that…

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Flower porcelain double series jar

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

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