Chinese Yixing Zisha Clay Handmade Exquisite Teapot （龙蛋 底款：景舟手制）

Product name: Dragon's egg

Bottom payment: handmade by Jingzhou

Size: 15/10cm

Capacity: 380cc

Purple sand classification: raw ore Dahongpao

Introduction to the bottom paragraph: Gu Jingzhou (1915-1996), formerly known as Jingzhou. Nicknames: Manxi, Thin Ping, Wuling Yiren, Jingnan Mountain Woodcutter. I call myself Pot Old Man and Lao Ping. Yixing Zisha famous artist, member of China Artists Association, and master of Chinese arts and crafts.

Born in Shangyuan Village, Chuanbu Township, Yixing, Jiangsu Province, in 1915, he studied art at the age of 18. From the late 1930s to Shanghai, the pot was made to imitate the ancients. In 1954, he entered the Yixing Shushan Ceramics Cooperative. In 1956, he was appointed by the Jiangsu Provincial Government as a technical tutor, with Xu Hantang, Gao Haigeng, Shen Juhua, Shu Fengying, Wu Qunxiang and others. He has participated in the National Arts and Crafts Congress three times in his life, and has a great influence in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. He is praised as the "master of pot art" at home and abroad, and his works are collected by major museums and cultural relics museums at home and abroad.

Gu Jingzhou can be said to be one of the most famous purple sand ceramic artists of all dynasties. His original name is Jingzhou, and later changed to Jingzhou. His names include Manxi, Leoping, Wuling Yiren, Jingnan Mountain Woodcutter and Pot Old Man. He created his own hall name as Ziyixuan. His achievements in pot art are extremely high, his skills are exquisite, and his materials are very wide. It can be said that he is one of the most accomplished ceramic artists in modern times. His reputation is comparable to that of Shi Dabin in the Ming Dynasty, and he is known as the "master of the generation" and the "master of pot art"of the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects.