Jingdezhen Traditional Over-glaze Decorative Sculptural Porcelain

The Porcelain City, Jingdezhen, has a long and glorious history of sculpturalporcelain. And the over-glaze decorative sculptural porcelain is it's splendidrepresentation. Jingdezhen over-glaze decorative sculptural porcelain has the charactersof magnificence, delicacy, elegance and suits both refined and popular tastes. It hasimportant status in Chinese sculptural ceramic history.The achievements of Jingdezhen over-glaze decorative sculptural porcelain owe tothe special local porcelain materials, the advanced over-glaze decoration techniques andthe deep influence of palace culture and citizen culture in Ming and Qing Dynasty.During the period of culture revolution, Jingdezhen has a very differentstyle ofover-glaze decorative sculptural porcelain. After the Reform and Open, Chinese modernartists took advantage of the techniques and the conceptions be attached to Jingdezhentraditional over-glaze decorative sculptural porcelain and made many unique andoutstanding works.The thesis analyzed the materials and history conditions which gave birth toJingdezhen over-glaze decorative sculptural porcelain. It pointed out the differentcharacters and styles of Jingdezhen over-glaze decorative sculptural porcelain in differenthistory time. Then it compared the difference between Jingdezhen over-glaze decorativesculptural porcelain and Chinese traditional painted sculpture and Chinese contemporarysculptural porcelain art. It concluded that Jingdezhen traditional over-glaze decorativesculptural porcelain is the source of Chinese contemporary sculptural porcelain art, andwhen traditional culture collided with modern art, there comes very brilliant and floridsparkles.