Product name: Elephant Bamboo

Bottom payment: Zhu Kexin

Size: 19/8 cm

Capacity: 350cc

Classification of purple sand: raw mineral clear cement

Introduction to the bottom paragraph: Zhu Kexin (1904-1986) was born in Dingshu Town, Yixing City. The original name is Zhu Kaichang, and the stage name is "Kexin", which means "modest people can learn from others", and "a glass of water in the mountains can clear the sky and earth". At the age of 14, he worshipped Wang Shengyi as his teacher and became a teacher and friend with Wu Genyun. In 1931, he was employed as a kiln technician in Yixing Ceramic Vocational School of Jiangsu Province, where he created purple sand coffee set. The following year, Yunlong Ding and Zhujie Ding were meticulously made to participate in the Chicago Expo, and won the "Super Excellence Award". In December 1953, the "National Folk Artist Observation Conference", with their works Yunlong Pot and Round Pine Plum Pot, participated in the exhibition. In 1959, as a representative of the cooperative, he participated in the World Ceramic Exhibition held by the Palace Museum in Beijing. His works, the Squirrel Grape Pot and the Matsushita and Meisanyou Pot, were selected to be exhibited abroad in the "China Arts and Crafts Tour Exhibition" and won the first prize. In 1959, he spent more than four months elaborately copying the Santo Cup collected by the Nanjing Museum and won the honor. At the peak of creation, we designed and produced Ruyi Pot, Yunyu Pot, Gaofeng Coffee Pot, Welcome Wine Pot, Wanshou Pot, Bowl Plum Pot, Kexin Pear Pot, etc. Many styles became the smooth selling products of purple clay craft pottery. In 1964, he meticulously copied Chen Mingyuan's packing pot, reaching the level of perfection of the purple sand technique. Zhu Kexin pioneered a pot style and a variety of decorative techniques, which is popular with Chinese and foreign people