Silver Snake Bringing Good Luck Porcelain Plate

??When the eastern spirit snake awakens in the glaze light of Jingdezhen??
The winding brown-scaled spirit snake before your eyes is crafted by Master Zhang, using squirrel-hair brushes dipped in cobalt blue and ochre to continuously outline its life force on the raw body for 72 hours??its bright eyes come from the starlight of trace metals in the glaze, and the blurring brushstrokes at the bamboo nodes conceal the freehand spirit of Eight Great Mountain Men.
Why do Western collectors be enchanted by snakes and bamboo?
In Eastern philosophy, the flexible snake is a guardian of wisdom, while the upright bamboo represents the noble demeanor of a gentleman. This piece, as the New York gallery owner calls it, an “Eastern Tarot”: when placed at the entrance or study, the coiled body of the snake symbolizes the winding path of life’s progress, while the golden edges of bamboo shadows penetrating the gaps offer a ray of hope in adversity.
The thousand-year gene in your fingertips
Feeling the unique tenderness of Jingdezhen’s kaolin with your palm over the 30.5cm wide plate’s rim, you can sense the 3mm-thick body ensuring translucency, achieved through 132 rounds of trimming to achieve a solid texture. The gold lines are not painted but a time-honored technique where true gold water is co-fired with glaze.