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The Art of a Chinese Potter

Wang Bingrong, 1862–1908, developed a remarkable skill as a delicate carver of bamboo.  He successfully transferred his carving skill to the technique of carving on porcelain which was achieved by allowing the newly thrown jar or vase to dry to “leather hard”.  The artist would then create the decoration by literally carving the jar in the style of ivory or jade carving.

Our featured lamp represents a favoured subject of Wang Binrong, the heron wading through a Lotus Pond.  This beautiful jar and cover now serves a dual function.  Not only is it a unique and decorative table lamp, but also an antique work of art in original condition.

Lighting is a most important element in decorating and can influence the mood of a room in a variety of ways, for example, soft, romantic lighting.  Table lamps are capable of giving an interior “that something extra” which can of course “finish” the look of a room.

One of the outstanding benefits of Oriental decorative lamps is their perfect adaptability to work with such a wide range of styles, besides being a focal point of an interior.  When decorating, adding a beautiful lamp is one of the easiest and most powerful ways to produce the look and feel you desire.

A very fine, mid 19th century, Chinese dry bodied porcelain, Qing dynasty jar and cover as a table lamp. (Technically speaking - enamelled directly onto the unglazed fired body, or, also known as enamelled on biscuit.)

The jar and cover enamelled with a turquoise ground and carved in deep relief with a lotus pond subject.  A White Heron wading through well defined lotus leaves and flowers in two shades of green with lotus flowers in aubergine.  The domed cover moulded with a curled lotus leaf and flower. In Chinese art, the lotus symbolises spiritual purity and is also used as the symbol for summer.

The base of the jar with the applied seal mark of Wang Binrong, (1862-1908), a highly respected and innovative 19th century Chinese potter, active through the Tong Zhi and Guang Xu reigns. The Chinese term for this style of decoration is Fa-Hua, the style first developed during the Ming Dynasty.  

The Antique & Vintage Table Lamp Co specialise in antique table lamp lighting with an on-line range of over 100 unique, antique and vintage lamps on view.

Lamps are shipped ready wired for the U.S, the U.K and Australia.

You are invited to visit their web site at www.antiquelampshop.com

 

© The Antique & Vintage Table Lamp Co 2009

 

 

About the Author

Maurice Robertson, principal of The Antique and Vintage Table Lamp Co , has had a lifetime’s association with antique porcelain and pottery. From an early age he recalls picking up tea cups, looking for the mark on the base, discerning the maker.

He has extended his ceramics expertise into the quality table lamps seen on the company’s site, he is well known to local and international interior designers who have included many of his table lamps in their projects and has also supplied items of national interest to the official Sydney residence of the Australian Prime Minister.

Chinese Art

About Li Qing – a Chinese Artist

Li Qing was born on 1981 in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, China. He is a graduate student at China Academy of Art and one of the representatives of this new generation. Over the last few years his art has been included many important exhibitions and rewarded several grants and awards, due to his excellence of performance - the mastery of refined and personal technique, the wide social concerns, and the appropriate representation. Executed in the very traditional medium of oil on canvas, the generally mid-size paintings are usually paired pictures.

In Li Qing’s work juxtaposition usually occurs between two similar subject matters or scenes but in difference chronologically. The tension or relation between the two is usually the resource of concept of the work. In China’s art scene the juxtaposition of old and new, which reflects the remarkable social transition taking place over the last three decades, was/is popular. As the method exactly reflects the current identity of Chinese people who are surrounded by consistent remarkable transitions in a territory where old and new are mixed. The pairs of picture are seemingly the successive snapshots capturing the two moments of a seemingly consecutive event, a body, a face, a place, an object, or a person. There is very little difference between the two pictures at first sight, and there are several minor distinctions between two upon a careful scrutiny.

Li Qing is making a simple and easily accessible visual world where audience may exchange idea and share a common feeling. Many of the prototypes of contemporary Chinese art were heavy in their subject matter in order to express artists’ negative attitude towards the current corruptive system. Li Qing successfully presents a magic pictorial series of contemporary Chinese art. Simultaneously, psychological complexity toward the remarkable social transitions of China is easily understood. His art is a visual game but entwined with social information that reflects the vicissitudes of the society. The subject matter is ordinary, and unnoticed, some are like news photo for a propaganda purpose. He presents a picture that combine with images and reality. Grand rhetoric and heavy theme are non-exist. Li Qing is more interested with an ordinary scene that affects our perception to the world. Li Qing is a great practitioner of oil painter. With his bold brush stroke, exact impasto, and, he smartly turns the visual games and subject matter into his own painterly game, a pictorial world that reflects changing reality.

Selected EXHIBITIONS:

2006

• See the luck when raise head, Hangzhou 2006 Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hangzhou, China See the luck when open the door, Wuxi Contemporary Art Exhibition tour, Wuxi, China

• Body on the Site, The Third Beijing International Gallery Exposition,Beijing, China

• Tu Hongtao, Li Qing two persons' show, Line Gallery, Yan Huang Museum,Beijing,china

• 10+10, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China Chinese contemporary Paintings, Nanjing Square Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nanjing, China.

2005

• Double reading photography exhibition, Hangzhou, China

• Let some ideas be seen, Modern Art Gallery of Art Academy of Hangzhou Teachers University, Hangzhou, China

• The spring of Vizcaya exhibition of paintings and sculptures of Chinese and French artists, Shanghai, China

• Archaeology of the Future, the second triennial of Chinese art, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China

• Rule-Possible young artists exhibition, Zhejiang exhibition centre,Hangzhhou, China

• First China Green Exhibition Exploration, Ag-Art Loft, Hangzhou,China Young Chinese Contemporary Art, Hangar-7, Salzburg, Austria

• 2005 Zhejiang Oil-painting exhibition & awarded the Gold Prize, Ningbo Art Museum, Ningbo, China

• It's true, The Artistic Island, Beijing, China

2004

• Concrete, Hangzhou, China

• Art Shanghai 2004-Exhibition of works of young artists in China Academy of Art, International exhibition centre, Shanghai, China

• Layer after layer Contemporary Painting in Shanghai in Zhejiang art exhibition, Zhejiang exhibition centre, Hangzhou, China

2002

• Do we need to rebuild a Leifeng Tower? China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China

Awarded Wu Fuzhi Prize

Conclusions:

Li Qing is among those group younger artists. Their emergence in the art scene will be symbolic to Chinese art world and the entire society at large. For the artist his visual game is perhaps a play of pigment and stroke, but his audience there is something significant behind the game.

What to Do Next...

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View Li Qing paintings, biography, solo exhibitions, group exhibitions and resource of Li Qing artist.View Art online at The Saatchi Gallery - London contemporary art gallery. Li Qing

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