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“Iron-Series Kiln-Transformation Glaze Art Ceramics Project” Featured at Fujian 19th Cross-Strait Talents Conference
Themed “Committed to Innovative Development, Advancing High-Quality Development on All Fronts,” the China Cross-Strait Innovation Project Achievement Fair opened on June 18, 2021, at the Fuzhou Strait International Conference and Exhibition Center. The fair focused on new industries, new technologies, new platforms, new business forms, and new models, showcasing a wave of the latest innovations that drew wide attention. Running from June 18 to 20, the Liao Meihong Studio was selected to exhibit in the “Quanzhou Pavilion” — the only Dehua ceramics studio featured at this year’s fair. The exhibition highlighted the studio’s long-standing dedication to research and development in “iron-series kiln-transformation glaze art ceramics,” with its product line and production techniques having earned multiple national invention patents. The exhibited works became one of the pavilion’s highlights, drawing high praise from officials and experts as well as media attention, and the studio made valuable technical and business connections along the way — a genuinely rewarding experience. Iron-red gold-ring glaze had been lost to history for a long time, and was only revived in the 1980s through the joint efforts of Tsinghua University and the Tangshan Ceramics Research Institute. At the time, more than fifty ceramics experts examined it and judged it a rare treasure. Because it is extremely difficult to fire, few practitioners have ever taken it up, and fewer still have pursued sustained research into it. This company is among the persistent few, and one of the leading ones. Through the tireless efforts of its R&D team, it has taken iron-red gold-ring glaze to an entirely new level: a distinctive formula and firing process makes the glaze’s black “blacker,” its red “redder,” and its gold ring more “golden” and more distinct, while allowing effective control over the kiln transformation of the black ground, red flowers, and gold ring together — producing glaze surfaces with red flowers that vary in size and number to satisfy different customers’ preferences, all while keeping the black, red, and gold hues saturated, crisp, and elegant. This project has played an exemplary role in protecting, preserving, and innovating a traditional and prized glaze variety. The resulting vases, cups, bowls, sculptures, and other works are each one of a kind, with striking visual impact and artistic expression, and hold strong prospects for further development. Quanzhou Pavilion, June 21, 2021 |
