National Treasure Master Wang Xiliang - Jingdezhen Cultural Gaolin and Art Landmarks
2021-05-19

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Bead mountain eight friends Wang Dafan descendants

The Chinese porcelain altar is a national treasure

New China's first batch of Chinese arts and crafts master

The first porcelain artist in New China to work for the Great Hall of the People

He is a witness to the century-old history of Chinese ceramics

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Wang Xiliang was born in Jingdezhen in February 1922, whose ancestral home was Yixian County, Anhui Province. He was born into a "ceramic family". When he was young, he learned porcelain painting from his uncle Wang Dafan, a famous ceramic artist in Jingdezhen who was the founder of "Eight Friends of Mount Zhu". Its biography is included in the "Chinese fine arts dictionary" and "Chinese contemporary arts and crafts celebrity dictionary".

 
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Wang Xiliang Ceramic Arts and Crafts family is the most representative ceramic family in Jingdezhen today, which condensed the development process of Jingdezhen Ceramic Arts and Crafts in the 20th century. Wang Xiliang has devoted himself to Chinese ceramic art for more than 70 years and has become a model for the next generation of artists. Wang Xiliang family is the head of the 24 ceramic families in Jingdezhen. Wang Xiliang is known as the master of ceramics, Jingdezhen cultural mountain and art landmark.

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The First Person in a Century of Ceramics • Wang Xiliang

When Wang Xiliang was young, he learned to paint porcelain paintings with his uncle Wang Dafan, one of the "Eight Friends of Pearl Mountain". In the 1950s, he was selected into the Ceramic Research Institute of the Ministry of Light Industry together with Wang Bu and other porcelain painting masters.

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New China ceramics group of Chinese arts and crafts master group photo

 On the basis of inheriting Wang Dafan's new pastel porcelain painting in the Republic of China period, he broke the traditional creation mode of porcelain plate painting and created the method of painting from life, which pushed Jingdezhen ceramic arts and crafts to a new peak. Early Jinggangshan theme porcelain mural, with its distinctive style, skyward atmosphere, widely praised, became a strong mark of his personal style.

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In his early years, Wang Xiliang created the unique Jinggangshan porcelain plate paintings

     

In his later years, he created the school of pine and stone painting, known as the "King of Pine". He is the only living person in China who appears in the promotional video of Jingdezhen city. He is one of the peak figures in the ceramic industry, a representative figure in the ceramic industry of Jingdezhen, and a name card of China's porcelain capital.

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In his later years, Wang Xiliang initiated the royal school of pine and stone painting, and was honored as the "King of Pine".

The first person to enter the Great Hall of the People

   In 1959, with the completion of the decoration of the Great Hall of the People, Wang Xiliang was only 37 years old when he created the large-scale porcelain plate painting "Jinggang Mountain, the Ccradle of Revolution" for the Jiangxi Hall of the Great Hall of the People, and was named and praised by Premier Zhou personally.

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A porcelain panel screen, "The Cradle of Revolution in Jinggang Mountain," created in 1959, is displayed in the Jiangxi Hall of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Chief Chinese Arts and Crafts Master • Wang Xiliang

In 1979, the Ministry of Light Industry awarded Wang Xiliang the title of Master of Chinese Arts and Crafts, which is the first master of Chinese Arts and Crafts in the ceramic field of new China!

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Wang Xiliang Wins Ceramics "Chinese Arts and Crafts Lifetime Award"

It takes 500 years to produce a Wang Xiliang

   With his extraordinary artistic expression and noble character, Wang Xiliang has become the pride of Jingdezhen, the porcelain capital for thousands of years. CCTV once commented that Wang Xiliang was an important figure in the history of contemporary Chinese ceramics, and a master of ceramic art in the form of a monument in this era. He is not well known in the history of Chinese ceramics, but he is widely known in Jingdezhen. He is not wantonly publicity, but in the whole ceramic art circle, the reputation, even senior experts in the industry have such evaluation of him: only 500 years out of a Wang Xiliang.

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The gold standard in the collection world

 Wang Xiliang's works are very valuable for collection, and they have been circulated overseas since his early years. They are favored by collectors and collected with large sums of money. His works are collected in Hong Kong, the United States, Indonesia, Singapore and other countries and regions.

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Work - Wang Xiliang made a powder enamel porcelain plate "Four Thousand Renren on Mount Huangshan" in 2009

Transaction price (RMB)- 7,820,000

Auction - 2009 Jingdezhen International Art Ceramics Auction

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Work title - Wang Xiliang made a pastel porcelain plate with flowers and birds, landscape figures in 1987

Transaction price (RMB)- 6,555,000

Auction - Spring 2012 Art Sale

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Works title - Wang Xiliang's 2006 painting series of lushan, six screens

Transaction price (RMB)- 5,980,000

Auction - red official kiln in extraordinary years - 60 years special auction of China light industry ceramics research institute

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Name of work - Wang Xiliang, 1973 two views of Lushan mountain, color enamel engraving double ear bottle

Transaction Price (RMB)- 4,830,000

Auction - red official kiln in extraordinary years - 60 years special auction of China light industry ceramics research institute

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Work title - Wang Xiliang in 2006 made a powder enamel orchid pavilion set sequence picture porcelain plate

Transaction price (RMB)- 4,082,500

Auctions - Fall 2018 Auctions

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Title of work - Wang Xiliang's 1989 pastel painting "finch screen selected" porcelain plate

Transaction price (RMB)- 3,910,000

Auction - Spring 2011 Art Sale

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Work title - Wang Xiliang          contemporary pastel dongshan happy picture bottle

Transaction price (RMB)- 2,070,000

Auctions - Spring 2018 Auctions

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Work title - Wang Xiliang, 50s pastel brocade open light knife horse figure plate

Transaction price (RMB)- 1,437,500

Auction - 2012 spring art auction famous porcelain painting special

 

Wang Xiliang, the "century-old porcelain king", moved his most proud pastel landscape porcelain panel painting "A Thousand Rivers and Mountains" to the inner wall of "auspicious Chinese Kowloon Vat" in pursuit of artistic perfection. A contemporaneity of this painting sold for nearly $8 million at auction ten years ago and is now valued at close to $10 million. Wang Xiliang's uncle Wang Dafan's pastel porcelain engraving has already passed the ten million mark. Today, Wang Xiliang's pastel porcelain plate paintings are close to Wang Dafan's, and a single pastel landscape VAT can sell for 12,000 yuan. Master Wang Xiliang moved the signature of this painting to the "dragon VAT", making it the unique "inside and outside" palace dragon VAT in history, with high artistic value and collection value, the future appreciation space is immeasurable!

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(Collector's Consultant takes a group photo with "Harmonious China • Nine Dragon Vat")