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Made in Jingdezhen, but supposedly privatization made this pattern rarer. The Zhengtai Ceramics Factory still mass-produces them, but they say there aren't any others now that they know of. Are there any individual ceramics artists who are working with this style? (Or other factories?)

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Wed Mar 31, 2021 12:56 am

Made in Jingdezhen, but supposedly privatization made this pattern rarer. The Zhengtai Ceramics Factory still mass-produces them, but they say there aren't any others now that they know of. Are there any individual ceramics artists who are working with this style? (Or other factories?)

Good question..... There have been so many variants ranging from the 50s to the 2000s. Different shapes, sizes, models and capacity. It's rare, at the same time, it's not that rare. It's mass produced and massively replicated. I doubt there are any "artist" version of them that warrants a second look for more than what it is.

Cheers!!

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Wed Mar 31, 2021 12:56 am

The Zhengtai Ceramics Factory still mass-produces them

I'm not actually certain they are still in business. Their old websites don't work anymore, and a search for 景德镇市正泰瓷厂 does not bring up anything current for me. They were featured in a 2019 video on rice grain pattern teaware, which is how I learned of them.

Enjoyed the video, thanks. Didn’t know how those rice pieces were made; punched, lightly fired, trimmed, and later glazed, and fired again.

Not sure if this is the same factory, but a video of the modern process from 2021:

Punching the actual holes is a trade secret? The second video didn’t show that most interesting step.

I've been rather dismissive of the rice grain porcelains in the past, but some things have changed this.

• Videos posted by mbanu
• Appreciation for jingdezhen porcelain glaze, after being dissapointed by many others
• This article Deconstructing the ‘Rice Grain’ Pattern on Chinese Porcelain – Late Qing to PRC
• Snagging some cheap cups on ebay and finding I rather enjoy drinking puerh and heicha from them

Hopeless, now I have two older handpainted cups incoming.

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Wed Mar 31, 2021 12:56 am

The spout of that rice grain pot looks a lot like the "1920s-patented non-drip spout" mentioned in regards to the brown betty here https://cauldonceramics.com/products/re ... n-ceramics.

mbanu, I feel like you are likely to know everything about this. I'm curious.

EDIT: Okay, seems the patent is from Alcock, Lindley and Bloore, who also patented a locking lid (also used in that new brown betty apparently). Anyway, still curious about any historical nuggets around this.