Craft and provenance
Powdered glass white built up in layers, on porcelain thrown and painted by hand in Jingdezhen.
Porcelain · Yuan Jinming Snow-Landscape series
How the snow is painted
Yan Yangping, Yuan Jinming's teacher, distilled the technique into three moves: borrow the ground for snow, the clouds for rain, the void for mist. The glass white that fills the snow must be thick, not thin, or the snow loses its weight and crystalline quality.
Before any white is laid down, the bones of the scene are painted - mountain ridges, tree trunks, roofs, paths. Snow reduces them to outline. If the structure does not hold, the white collapses into a flat patch.
Why there is no second one
Each piece is thrown, trimmed and painted by hand, without moulds or transfers. The scene is composed for that specific curved surface; the brush cannot repeat the same stroke twice. A cup, a vase and a plate in this collection each carries its own snowfall.
The collection therefore has no editions, no restocks and no bulk quantities. Enquiries are handled piece by piece.
Workshop footage
Three clips supplied from the artist's existing materials. Nothing plays automatically; use the controls to start a clip.
Documents and what is still pending
- Three vocational and honorary credentials: certificate photographs published on the artist page.
- Jiangxi Provincial Museum holdings: accession SC10000721 and SC10000715.
- Third-party laboratory test reports and preferential-origin certificates: 【待填写】 for this website. No such claims are made on these pages.
- Food-contact, tariff and shipping statements from earlier drafts are not published here until their documents are supplied and checked.
Only evidence that can be shown is stated as fact. Everything else is listed as pending rather than quietly assumed.
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