Purple Clay Teapot Art of Wang Yufang 怡心壺韻

Wang Yu Fang was born in Yiaing, coming from a long line of pottery makers; she has been in the art of pottery making for thirty years. With the influence of previous purple clay artists, she integrates modern design concepts into her works, making her purple clay teapots demonstrate modern concepts with practicality. With the suggestions of the editors, Wang Yufang produced a few hundred clay teapots and selected seventy-eight of them to be inscribed with Professor Jao Tsung-i’s paintings and calligraphic works. The result is surprisingly good. In view of this, an album was specially compiled this batch of artworks along with twelve of Wang’s teapots into for this wonderful event of purple clay teapot art.

王玉芳生長於宜興的陶藝世家，至今從事砂壺製作已三十多年。在前代壺藝家的基礎上，她加入了近代的設計觀念，使她的砂壺展現嶄新的風格，又不減弱其實用性。編者從王玉芳製作的數百把砂壺中選取了七十八把，再從饒宗頤教授書畫作品中選取相同數量的作品銘刻於壺上，效果之佳，出乎意表。再特選加王玉芳砂壺創作十二把，編輯成冊，亦足稱現今砂壺藝術的佳話。