Glaze shops here in China are magical places where rainbows, spectrums and candy have distilled and separated themselves. They have melted into pots, tubs, and plastic water bottles for you to take home and splatter all over your ceramic greenware.
This is my dear friend Shelley from Adelaide who is on this artists residency at the Pottery Workshop with me. Here she is checking out the ming blue colour variations in the underglaze stains. You pick the colour from the fired sample and then they go out the back and bring you your own little tub to take away.
It is a hive of activity here at "Paint Town".
A section of the shop with glazed samples on the shelf for customers to choose from. I was surprised to see a piece by famous Japanese artist Yoshimoto Nara. Does he produce sculptures here in Jingdezhen and one mysteriously found its way into this shop and on to its shelf?
Stains R'US. Yummy. Actually I bet they dont taste as good as they look. I enjoyed some of the colour therapy/healing benefits of the colours as I stood here and gazed.
Did you say you want white glaze? We have white in about 100 variations. This is some of the crackle options, which I am quite hot for.
Ming blue, of which Jingdezhen is famous for. Jingdezhen is where the ancient porcelain Ming vases have come from.... 2000 years of porcelain making.
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