Foshan’s Shiwan, a well-known ancient town with a history of thousands of years, is a place where the birth of heroes brings glory to and folk environment is of sincerity and honesty. With an ancient history, the ceramics is carried on generation over generation. Not only did the masters at all levels inherit and develop the ancient techniques but they incorporated the brand new artistic elements in it, creating the masterpieces for the world.

[Shiwan Gongzai] is of a long history, its pieces cover characters, birds/animals, flowers, mountain, and dishware.The character ceramic features vivid image and spirit, jazzily, facetious, implicative, and smart；the animal ceramic is designed to echo breeziness and loveliness; the flower ceramic is indeed vivid, which is hard to distinguish it among the real flowers, the mountain bonsai is delicate, remarkably true to life, and one integrated mass; the dishware ceramic not only archaizes the ancient one but also creates new. With the blend of calligraphy, drawing, seal cutting, and ceramic art, the profound Chinese culture essence is adequately showed off.Shiwan Gongzai’s colour-changing glaze is amazing, this is why Shiwan is honored the Ceramic Capital of south China.

Jiangxi Jindezhen, the known town specialized in porcelain for centuries in the world, have been producing the porcelain masterpieces featuring high taste, unique style, and delicate techniques for thousand years. It was crowned the “Porcelain Capital of China”.

Jiangsu Yixing located in the bank of Taihu lake, is renowned for its “Oriental Pearl”. Simple and unsophisticated purple clay, dignified Juntao, elegant blue porcelain, and unique Meitao are universally recognized in the world.For arts and crafts, the purple clay teapot is the most famous, its practicality and art are both included. Its various types, unique shape, delicate techniques, and individuality bring it into the tea ceremony palace, becoming a pearl of ceramic art for years. Masterpieces created by a legion of liberators, masters, and scholars are popularly welcomed and collected by the general public.

We will invite especially the well-known ceramics masters altogether with their splendid masterpieces to join the museum, a combination of master-hands. Guotao Collector’s Museum is actually a rendezvous for Chinese art masters.

As a pillar industry of Jindezhen, renowned for a “Capital of Porcelain”, fire of kiln for thousands years creates a brilliant culture.Since the Yuan Dynasty, Jindezhen has been a place designated to produce the porcelains for the official purposes, by which a raft of masters and technicians emerged generation-on-generation. Its reputation on “as white as jade, as thin as paper, as bright as mirror, and as beautiful as chime stone” is widely spread. Porcelain culture has been greatly forged on the basis of profound theory and abstruse concepts toward taste. Now Jinde owns 12 masters of Chinese arts & crafts, 9 masters of Chinese porcelain art, 31 masters of arts & crafts at provincial level, and hundreds of senior masters of arts & crafts. As experienced and knowledgeable masters, they won claims from the collectors and clients worldwide as their works have been collected and highly noticed by organizations and collectors at home and abroad. They are Liu Yuan-chang, Xiong Han-zhong, Zeng Wei-kai, Shu Hui-juan, Liu Wei, and Shu Li-hong.

Jiangsu Yixing located in the bank of Taihu lake, is renowned for its “Oriental Pearl”. Simple and unsophisticated purple clay, dignified Juntao, elegant blue porcelain, and unique Meitao are universally recognized in the world.For arts and crafts, the purple clay teapot is the most famous, its practicality and art are both included. Its various types, unique shape, delicate techniques, and individuality bring it into the tea ceremony palace, becoming a pearl of ceramic art for years. Masterpieces like Gu Jin-zhou, Jiang Rong, Xu Xiu-tang, Lv Rao-chen, Wan Yan-xian, Xu Han-tang, Tan Guan-hai and Huishan’s master of mud figures Liu Cheng-yincreated by a legion of liberators, masters, and scholars are popularly welcomed and collected by the general public.

Fujian Dehua, one of the three ancient Chinese porcelain capitals in China, has a long history of porcelain production and culture. As a carrier of porcelain culture, Dehua kiln was formed in Tang Dynasty and well developed in Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasty. Blue, blue & white, shadow blue, and black glaze porcelain as well as “Chinese White” porcelain were well known in the world a long time ago. Blue flower and colorful porcelain were brought at the height of brilliance and splendor in the Ming and Qing Dynasty. With improvement of quality and development of carving skills, He Chao-zong of Ming Dynasty was crowned with an “Eastern Venus” title. In 1915, a master Su Xue-jin’s plum work was awarded the gold medal in the Panama Int’l Arts Expo. Since the China opened the door to outside of the world, Dehua porcelain was given a boost in efforts to revive this ancient art, now it has became a production and export base of western porcelain in China. A number of works by Chen Ren-hai etc. have been collected by the Palace Museum, China Museum of History, and Great Hall of PRC, furthermore some of their works were brought by the rank officials along with their state visits to overseas as gifts. A legion of masters e.g. Xu Xing-qin, Chen Gui-yu, and Yang Min-jian emerged. At present, Dehua has became a production base of porcelain due to its mass scale, leading technology, steady development, and fast expansion in China.In 1993, former premier Li Peng paid a visit to Dehua and wrote “Famous Dehua porcelain is a pearl of the country of porcelain”.State Council’s Development and Research Center granted it “Home of Porcelain in China” in 1996.Dehua possesses more than 100 private museums of porcelain, which is only country of this kind in China.