Wu Jia: Shui Ping

This particular selection is a great example of Wu Jia's handicraft which is always meticulously precise, delicately shaped and consistently in fine ground clay. It is completed with the engraving of a calligraphic piece in the “Shou Jin” style of Emperor Hui Zong of the Song Dynasty. The words themselves are borrowed also from the last line in a famous poem by the artist monarch, “Poem of Blossoming Fragrance”. This is a rough translation of that line and the line before it, for contextual reference — Intoxicated in the fragrant lane the butterfly dancesin a chase after the night breeze Below is the scroll of the poem written by the emperor himself, now in the permanent collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Artist: Wu Jia, National Master Industrial Artist Pot style: Shui Ping (Water Level) Material: Da Hong Pao from the original mine Capacity: 180 ml (6 fl oz) Creation year: 2021 Born in 1988, Wu is rather young to have quite a number of works already collected insti