The color of the grinding clay pot is ever-changing, elegant and charming, or like the clouds in the sky, or like the rainbow after the rain, or like the lake and mountains, or like the desert wilderness... A good grinding clay work needs to integrate the shape, ornamentation and charm into one, and the difficulty of its craftsmanship is self-evident, which can be described as the treasure of purple sand art.
Vientiane Update
Mention of the grinding clay pot, we have to mention the "Kongjia pot" famous for the grinding technology, one of its founders - Kong Chunhua, the perfect combination of purple sand pot making technology and the traditional grinding tire technology, to innovate, a piece of exquisite works, many times in the competition won awards, by many collectors, industry insiders sought after and respected.
Kong Chunhua was born in 1959 in Dingshu, Yixing, and was born in a pottery family, and he has a special love for purple sand craftsmanship since childhood. Since the age of 17, he entered the Research Institute of Arts and Crafts Ceramics Factory, engaged in the creation of purple sand pot art, and graduated from Jiangsu Yixing Light Industry School in 1987.
"Rhinoceros Swan"
Kong Chunhua started from learning traditional crafts, constantly delved into and explored, and learned from famous masterpieces. In his yihai career, he has been personally guided by the provincial celebrity Pan Zhiping and the national master Wang Yinxian, and the teachers' careful teaching and words and deeds have enabled him to practice a solid foundation and play a comfortable role in the production of difficult square tools.
The combination of theory and practice for many years has enabled him to have a unique insight into the art of purple sand, and in the process of his creation, he has absorbed the essence of purple sand culture, innovated in tradition, and taught nature, gradually forming his own artistic style.
"Xanadu Circle"
In 1990, together with his brother Kong Xiaoming, sister Kong Xinhua and brother-in-law Gu Jianjun, he launched the "Kong Jia Jug" brand, which stood out in the purple sand industry with its novel shape design and unique grinding technology.
In 1992, Kong Chunhua was transferred to the Purple Sand Craft Factory Research Institute and engaged in innovative design. When designing the shape, he integrated the different patterns of grinding mud decoration into the square to achieve a unique artistic effect. Each of his works is poured into his heart, gentle and elegant without losing the atmosphere, integrating the realm of everything he has heard and witnessed, and bursting out a strong oriental artistic charm.
"Golden Leopard Fang"
His masterpiece "Golden Leopard Fang", regardless of mud color, texture, shape and craftsmanship, has reached a considerable height. The unique grinding mud decoration makes the body covered with golden leopard print, giving people a beautiful visual enjoyment.
Such a complex work, but shows a sense of weightlifting, showing the leopard's gorgeous markings, correct posture, shape, god, and connotation, and the momentum and beauty are unique.
"Lucky Star High Illumination"
Kong Chunhua's innovation is not to make new things out of thin air, but to break the inherent thinking and give new vitality to the works. His ingenious work "Fuxing Gaozhao" sculpts two bats on the pot button to embrace the word "Fu", and the ten sides of the pot body are molded with a piece of clay paste to form a "Ruyi" shape, which means Fulu Shouxi.
Rich in formal beauty and profound meaning, it won the gold medal of the 3rd China Arts and Crafts Fine Arts and Household Products Expo in 2011, which won the love of everyone.
For Kong Chunhua, when the pot art is contemporary, it needs to keep up with the pace and concept of the times, and reflect the context and style of the times. Over the years, he has insisted on pioneering and constantly refining, so that the grinding mud process has been refined to the realm of divinity, and its elegant purple sand square ware, beautiful hanging mud decoration, elegant and popular fine works, are also unique and irreplaceable in this era.