3. "Blue and white wares” designate white
pottery and porcelain decorated under
the glaze with a blue pigment, generally
cobalt oxide. The decoration is commonly
applied by hand, by stencilling or by
transfer-printing, though other methods
of application have also been used.
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Blue and white porcelain
Ceramics
6. The famous ancient Chinese philosopher
Chuang-tzu interpreted the concept of
“Useless” as in “to deny allocation of an
object, hence to give it greater function.”
In his perception, the truthful meaning is
to pursue the utmost functions/purposes
of an object and not to limit itself in one
single task. Therefore, to jump out the
perception of “function”, and to banish
the preconceived of “form”, this could
have brought to a higher confines, and
would transfer “Useless” becomes
“Usefulness”. Design by Jacky Wu.
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Usefuless
Ceramics
7. Trip View Bowl compresses the view of a
specific Taiwanese landscape in a 12cm-
in-diameter blue and white porcelain
bowl. The three-dimensional panorama
map is amazingly painted inside the bowl.
Rotating the bowl will virtually take you
into the sky looking down at this
landscape. All famous sights and stores
are also labeled in this interesting and
practical souvenir so tourists could take
all wonderful memories of the tour home.
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Trip View Bowl
Ceramics
8. De Porceleyne Fles B.V. (Royal Delft) is
the leading producer of authentic Delft
Blue ornamental earthenware and
modern earthenware. The company is
not only active as a knowledge centre
for ceramics but also receives over
140,000 visitors annually from all over
the world who come to view the
traditional production process of Delft
earthenware.
www.royaldelft.com
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Royal Delft
Ceramics
12. Sets of ritual bronzes were produced for
an individual to use in ritual offerings of
food and drink to his ancestors in family
temples or ceremonial halls over tombs,
or rather ritual banquets in which both
living and dead members of a family
participated; early literary records speak
of these. On the death of the owner they
would be placed in his tomb, so that he
could continue to pay his respects in the
afterlife; other examples were cast
specifically as grave goods.
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Ritual bronzes
Bronze
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15. The project has two goals- first, let other
designers or companies know the
craftsmen in this bronze village have great
skill and production ability. Second, there
are about 200 companies in this village
doing and selling very similar objects at
the moment; to avoid the ruinous
competition, we can bring different type
of orders to them, then create diversity of
business environment. In the aspect of
design, this project investigates the
material of wax and copper alloy, and dig
into every single process with the local
craftsmen. In the end we create five
objects - lamps (2 types), mirrors (3 sizes),
door stops, plates, and the containers.
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Bronze China
Bronze
Design by Shi kai, Tseng
