Sun Jianxing
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in October 1952 in Quanzhou, Fujian Province. He is a national representative bearer of Jian Kiln Tea-bowl Firing Craftsmanship, a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He is a Master of Chinese Arts and Crafts. He began ceramic research in 1972 and in 1979 was seconded to the Fujian Provincial Institute of Light Industry to take part in the project to revive the Jian kiln, where he continuously improved the glaze formulae and firing processes and restored the traditional techniques. He developed more than thirty kinds of Jian tea bowls, including golden hare's-fur, golden oil-spot and partridge-feather wares, re-creating the extraordinary appeal of the thousand-year-old kiln's tea bowls. Three works or sets, namely Imitation Song Jian Kiln Oil-Spot Tenmoku Tea Bowl, Imitation Song Jian Kiln Hare's-Fur Tenmoku Tea Bowl and Oil-Spot Tenmoku Dragon-and-Tiger Tea Set, were collected by the National Museum of China, while Yohen Tenmoku Tea Bowl and Oil-Spot Tenmoku Tea Bowl were collected by the China National Arts and Crafts Museum. His works have been shown in numerous exhibitions in China and abroad. He published the monograph A Study of the Revival of Jian Kiln Tea Bowls. He founded the Jian Kiln Ceramics Research Institute and serves as art director of the Xingchen Tenmoku Ceramics Research Institute in Nanping, Fujian Province, passing the Jian kiln tea-bowl firing craft to his daughter and many disciples. At the same time he has actively organised or taken part in exhibitions of results and has presented papers at international conferences on ancient ceramics, promoting exchange and development in ceramic culture and art.
Honors & Recognition
In 1995 his Series of Imitation Song Jian Tea Bowls received the second prize of the Fujian Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award from the Fujian Provincial People's Government. In 2021 he was named an advanced individual in scientific and technological innovation in the light industry for the 13th Five-Year Plan period. His daughter Sun Li is already a Fujian provincial-level bearer of tea-bowl firing and a provincial arts-and-crafts master, and has received the provincial Youth May Fourth Medal and the title of Woman Pace-setter.
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