Gu Jingzhou
Chinese, 1915 - 1996
In 1933, Gu Jingzhou started to learn Zisha skill with his grandmother. He learned all the traditional skills from his family and other technicians working in his family workshop. He also used his knowledge of Chinese culture in the Zisha making. Soon he became well-known for his wonderful Zisha products. When he was 20, he was invited by the Lang's Gallery in Shanghai and made many duplicate for the ancient Zisha masters' products. His duplicated Zisha pot had very high artistic achievement and many customers even thought they were better than the original copies (See duplicates of A Monk's Hat Pot and Gong Chun Pot made by Gu Jingzhou).
In 1954 Gu Jingzhou helped the government established the Yangdu Pottery Co. He was the instructor of the new Zisha makers training program. Many of his student later became famous Zisha masters in China.
In 1958 he participated the innovation of Zisha technique and designed many new Zisha utilities for the Congress of China.
In 1975 he started the excavation of the ancient Zisha kilns and the archeology work of Zisha technology. He collected lots of data and information of the Zisha history and published many papers.
In 1988 Gu Jingzhou was entitled as the National Traditional Art Master of China. This is the highest honor of Chinese Zisha makers. He was considered as one of the greatest Zisha Masters in the history.
from http://tea.timzhao.com/CTCOM/TEAPOT/mordenzi.html#Gu_Jingzhou
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Indonesian, approx. 1862-1978