History of Zisha Pot

The founder of the purple sand pot is the Ming Dynasty Zhengde - Jiajing time (供春). "Yu from the ancestor of the fist stone Gong reading Nanshan, with a child name for spring, see the natives to mud for the tank, that is, clarified its mud for the pot, extremely ancient and beautiful lovely, the so-called for spring pot also." (Wu Meiding: "Yang envy porcelain pots - preface") for spring pot, then praised "chestnut color dark, such as ancient and modern iron, dun pang Zhouzheng.

Shi Dabin, Xu Youquan, Li Zhongfang and known as the Ming dynasty after the Wanli three big Zisha "wonderful hand". Shi Dabin's style of purple sand pots elegant and vulgar, smooth and flexible modeling, although not the pursuit of craftsmanship carving, but the ingenuity of the craftsmanship, simple elegance and firm, wonderful.

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Famous Purple Sand Pot

A tree gall is a tree tumor. The shape of this pot imitates a tree gall, and the surface of the pot is uneven, with bark molded patterns. The whole pot is dark chestnut color, is the Ming Dynasty pot making everyone for spring created a kind of pot style.

The Erquan Ming pot is simple and ancient, the pot is earthy yellow, around the body of the bamboo molding, and a bat fluttering, and the ancients "blessing" will. On the side of the pot's belly, the inscription is in negative seal script: "The sky is clear, the wind is gentle", a poem derived from Wang Xizhi's "Preface to the Lanting Collection", signed by "Erquan".

Yixing kiln yulin alabaster overlay pot, late Qing dynasty, height 7.5 cm, calibre 5.7 x 5.7 cm, base diameter 9.8 x 9.8 cm, the pot is in the form of a small overlay with a large, flat base in the form of a quadripartite angle. The body of the pot is engraved in seal script with three characters, "The children and grandchildren should be happy. The bottom of the pot is inscribed with a seal in seal script, "Yulin". The sandy ginger-yellow clay is moist and delicate.　The shape of this pot is round in square, giving people a feeling of softness in rigidity.

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