All along, I have been deeply moved by the teacher's creation of this all-hand thin tire pot "Three-legged Ding" in 2009.
The pot is shaped by Ding, the sense of history and cultural accumulation are self-evident, and there is more auspicious and wishful prayer, but also conveys the most sincere blessings of the author's heart, so simple and elegant, vivid works are enough to make people taste. The overall shape seems to have an ancient rhyme of the immortal charm, like a cloud flying, cranes singing in the sky, wisps of sandalwood incense refreshing, the spout and the handle of the pot left and right opposite, the spout out of the water powerful, the pen is very open, the bottom falls three-legged, set the charm of the ancient copper furnace, the overall charm is more thick and simple.
Teacher Wang Genglan has always been a powerful pot teacher, a real big country craftsman, low-key and connotative of her, never gave herself too much publicity, wholeheartedly devoted to making pots, "Three-legged Ding" is a work that adds a thin tire craft, the whole pot gives people a sense of "doubting nothing in the hand, fixing the eyes like a god", senior pot friends can try it.
Everyone often uses "thin as cicada wings, light as floating clouds" to describe the thin tire purple sand pot.
The so-called thin tire refers to the thinner than the general pot when playing mud chips, which is not a craft, but it is a pot making technique, which can reflect the depth of the author's skill. Although the thin tire pot looks no different from the ordinary purple sand pot, their shape is equally calm and thick, but the hand is very light, which can confirm Lao Tzu's Taoist concept of "great ingenuity and clumsiness". At the same time, the thin tire pot gives people a feeling of "thin as cicada wings, light as silk yarn".
"Thin tire" is originally a "magic skill" of porcelain production, since the Ming and Qing dynasties, some artists have used it in the purple sand pot making process, although there are not many works passed down, but it has pioneered an unprecedented wonderful effect.
Due to the thin tire, the molding is difficult, and the heating is uneven during firing and it is easy to burn, so the thin tire pot has high requirements for technical proficiency. Making a perfect thin-tire pot is not an easy task.
As a practical vessel, this ingenious thin tire pot should take more care of the dual requirements of "ornamentation" and "practicality".
The purple sand pot has both practical and aesthetic characteristics, which requires high production skills in production. However, there is also a disadvantage is that some ultra-thin tires, with boiling water to make tea or watering may crack, in the northern winter when using thin tire pots to drink tea must first warm the pot, to avoid cold meets extreme heat, and make the pot burst.
The thin tire purple sand pot is the same as the ordinary purple sand pot, but also afraid of greasy, every time after brewing tea, remember to wipe it clean and put it in a ventilated place. Thin tire purple sand pot due to the thin tire wall, must be extra careful when using, such as encountering bumps, the pot is more likely to be "injured".
Wang Genglan (Cultivated Blue)
Born in 1967 in Yixing, Taodu, he was a senior engineer in 2014 and the winner of the first "Jingzhou Cup" Excellence Award in 2015. In 1983, he entered the factory and studied under Wu Qunxiang, a senior arts and crafts artist of Gu Jingzhou, a pot art master, and later received guidance from teachers such as Pan Zhiping, Zhou Diandian and Ge Tao.
His works have won many awards, and have won silver and bronze awards for the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th China Exposition consecutively. Good at all handmade, especially known for light and element devices, simple and bright shapes, rigid and soft lines, exquisite craftsmanship, quite its style. In the construction method, he chased after the hand, mastered the relics of Gu Lao, did not chase gold to make work, and wholeheartedly pursued the purple sand art to the peak.