There are quite a few artists fascinated by the "Chinoiserie" style, from East to West, from fashion, fragrance, home decor... But if you want to highlight someone who fully showcases its charm, Dries Van Noten must be mentioned. Dries Van Noten excels at integrating delicate Chinese elements with different colors and materials, giving his works a unique sense of layering, and even belonging.
To create a "Chinoiserie" style, you first need a moderate amount of decorations. In addition to various Chinese furniture and cabinets, embroideries, jewelry boxes, calligraphy collections, there might also be Jingdezhen porcelain passed down from ancestors. However, porcelain with both the texture and design of "Chinoiserie" style is not easy to come across. Therefore, a browse through Brewin Teaware might allow you to find some treasures in one stop.
Blue and White Porcelain from Jingdezhen
Compared to expensive collectibles and ornaments, highly recommends the 2026 Zhuyunjian High-End Series. Zhuyunjian uses top-grade kaolin clay from Jingdezhen's original mines and a secret glaze to produce blue and white porcelain, which is undoubtedly the best choice for creating a Chinese style.
(Image: Zhuyunjian "Huakai Fugui" Blue and White Tea Scent Cup)
Blue and white porcelain generally refers to porcelain where patterns are drawn on the clay body with blue pigments, then covered with a layer of transparent glaze and fired once at high temperatures. Due to different proportions of cobalt, manganese, and iron elements in various blue and white pigments, the color after firing will vary. Some are as blue as sapphire, some are purple-blue, and some are grayish-blue. Regardless of the blue pigment used or the shade presented, good blue and white porcelain should have a bright, deep, and translucent blue color, with even saturation, not too pale or too dark.
(Image: Ming Yongle Blue and White "Interlock lotus cup" from the Palace Museum)
Lightly tapping the surface of porcelain with your finger, good blue and white porcelain will produce a very crisp and pleasant sound that will resonate within the vase for a period before fading; inferior blue and white porcelain will produce a duller sound without echo. This is largely related to the material of the porcelain body itself. Jingdezhen porcelain has always had the characteristics of being "white as jade, bright as a mirror, and sounding like a chime." The body should be hard and regular, the glaze thin, even, and translucent, and the painted lines should be smooth and natural, with exquisite and delicate patterns such as intertwined lotus, fish and algae, dragon motifs, figures, landscapes, and birds and flowers.
(Image: Zhuyunjian Hand-painted Gilded Landscape Gaiwan)
Things that resonate with one's heart have no expiration date, just like practicing elegance in an infinitely captivating space, focusing with long-term patience on each deep breath, a daily dose of fresh sunlight and Longjing tea, which can instantly dispel fatigue.
Text and images: janice
