When Yang Xiaoquan is mentioned, he will involuntarily link him to the Zhu Mud family, and his son Yang Zhicheng, who has also inherited his father's business, makes pots with Zhu Mud for generations, and his works are unforgettable at first sight.
Yang Xiaoquan, senior arts and crafts artist, excellent ceramicist, born in 1963, rough appearance, humble, under the guidance of researcher-level senior arts and crafts artist Chen Guoliang.
Since childhood, he has a strong interest in the art of purple sand, and has trained excellent design and all-handmade pot making skills, and can seek movement in stability, curves in fluency, and novelty in tradition.
His works have been published in books and periodicals such as "Kettle Soul" and "Chinese Contemporary Purple Sand Hundred Masters", and have won many national awards. In the past thirty years, he has focused on the research of vermilion clay pots, and can make vermilion clay pots, and his skills are beyond the reach of ordinary pot artists.
Vermilion mud is a red mud with a golden yellow or light yellow-green color of the original ore, which was called "stone yellow mud" in the Ming Dynasty and "vermilion mud" in the Qing Dynasty. The original ore is buried deep in the bottom of the tender mud layer of ZhaoZhuang Mountain in Dingshan Town, Yixing, with a coffee-black appearance, and is called "vermilion mud" after refining into mud.
With hot water to pour the vermilion clay pot, it will stand on the delicate bright red, there is purple light in the water, and the red is calm after soaking the pulp. Due to the low sand content (sand is "mud bone"), the mud is delicate, the support is low, and the molding process is also difficult. From raw blank to firing, the shrinkage rate is as high as 30%-40%, vertical shrinkage is greater than lateral shrinkage, and the general yield rate is 70%, so it is commonly used to make small utensils and as makeup soil from ancient times to the present.
Vermilion mud has a high iron content and a slightly higher firing temperature, that is, iron will precipitate and fire defects will appear.
Yang Xiaoquan is good at making zhu mud works by hand, and his works are all handmade from the original ore zhu mud, and he is proficient in understanding the characteristics of zhu mud, and the pot shape can be customized!
For example, this one: "Lotus Seed"
Pots named after lotus seeds are not uncommon in purple sand pots, but Yang Xiaoquan's pot is ingenious.
This pot, made of raw ore vermilion clay, is tender and delicate, dazzling, and the pot is named after the lotus seed, which means the infinite auspiciousness and blessing of this pot, and also symbolizes the precious character like a lotus.
This pot is dignified and simple, the atmosphere is stable, the lines are simple and smooth, giving people a simple and generous, crisp and neat feeling, and the spout and handle at the neck and lid of the pot highlight the beauty of the strength of this pot. Displaying infinite blessings in a dignified, quaint, natural and powerful way is worth playing.