Xiahou Wen
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1959 he entered the ceramic polychrome painting programme of the Fine Arts Department of the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, studying under the renowned artists Yu Hanqing and Nie Xingsheng. He has trained successors through both family and master-apprentice transmission.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han, born in August 1935 in Fenyi County, Jiangxi Province. A national representative bearer of Longquan celadon firing technique, a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. A senior arts and crafts artist, a master of Chinese arts and crafts and an expert receiving the special government allowance of the State Council. After graduating in 1963 he was assigned to the Zhejiang Longquan Porcelain Factory and later entered the Longquan Celadon Research Institute, where he took the renowned veteran artists Li Huaide and Li Huaichuan as his teachers and learned celadon firing techniques, acquiring a thorough command of every stage and process formula of celadon making; in long practice he inherited and developed the traditional craft and formed his own technical characteristics and stylistic idiom. His representative works include Geyao Longwen Pan (Ge Ware Dish with Dragon Design), Duocui Mudan Ping (Prunus Vase of Rivaling Green Peonies), Huakai Ruyi Pan (Dish of Blossoming Ruyi) and Jiucun Shuangyu Xi (Nine-Inch Basin with Double Fish). Since 2000 more than twenty of his works have won national and provincial awards, and many have been collected by the China Ceramics Museum.
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