Introduction

This artwork adopts a tall modified straight cylindrical vase shape. It features an elongated vertical cylindrical body that slightly tapers from top to bottom, paired with a neat flat rim and a stable thick base. The vertical stretching lines extend visual height and deliver strong vertical spatial depth. A vertical three-dimensional relief texture runs along one side of the vessel, dividing the surface into two major painting zones. The flat painted surface and concave-convex relief create striking layered contrast, eliminating the monotony of single flat porcelain painting. With a minimalist, grand and tall silhouette, it is a large-scale decorative art porcelain perfect for display in entryways, exhibition halls and tall tea room cabinets. Ample vertical blank space is reserved to match the vertical composition of freehand floral themes.
The vessel is hand-thrown from dense high-white Jingdezhen kaolin clay. One side of the body is sculpted with slip casting and carving techniques to form vertical three-dimensional relief texture, fully coated with soft bluish-white high-temperature transparent glaze and fired once at 1300℃ under reducing flame. The work integrates three core ceramic crafts: three-dimensional relief sculpting, graded cobalt underglaze blue painting, and freehand diffused copper underglaze red. Grid line strokes and scattered ink dots of underglaze blue form background textures, with shading gradations creating varied blue tones. Underglaze red serves as the primary floral pigment, forming naturally dripping blended reddish-brown textures through kiln transformation. Glaze drips naturally at the bottom of petals, presenting the spontaneous texture of splashed ink wash. Co-firing underglaze blue and underglaze red requires vastly different temperature ranges, and the added relief sculpting complicates firing procedures, leading to high defect rates and scarce finished pieces.

Breaking the creative limitations of traditional purely flat porcelain painting, this piece unites three crafts — three-dimensional relief sculpting, underglaze blue and underglaze red — on a single vessel, featuring extremely high composite craft difficulty and standing as a typical representative of contemporary comprehensively decorated ceramics. Its composition reinterprets traditional auspicious floral themes with modern vertical partitioning aesthetics. The unique dripping kiln transformation effect of underglaze red is irreproducible, making the texture of every single piece one-of-a-kind. The tall straight cylindrical silhouette fits display demands for modern high-ceiling spaces, abandoning the bulky retro temperament of antique imitation porcelain to match contemporary minimalist and freehand interior aesthetics. Rooted in Jingdezhen’s thousand-year craft heritage of underglaze blue and red, the work integrates multiple artistic languages including sculptural shaping, splashed ink wash and high-temperature pigment painting. It holds multi-purpose value for exhibition display, interior soft furnishing and handmade art collection, ranking as a high-end premium contemporary handmade art porcelain that unifies sculptural quality, painting quality, craftsmanship and decorative appeal.



