Jingdezhen studio

Studio

Jingdezhen studio

Every piece comes from a Jingdezhen workshop. The method — thrown, moulded, painted, or glaze-fired — is named on the product page.

The Clay Bench
Raw Material

The Clay Bench

Porcelain stone is refined in Jingdezhen before any Qingci piece is thrown or pressed. The body decides whiteness and ring.

The Wheel
Forming

The Wheel

Gaiwan, teapot, and jar silhouettes are raised by hand. Proportion is judged while the clay is still moving.

The Painting Table
Decoration

The Painting Table

Underglaze blue, famille-style color, and kiln-change glazes are applied in small workshops around the city.

The Kiln
Firing

The Kiln

Most house pieces are high-fired porcelain. The kiln-change cubes on our charm wall are a living record of that heat.

The Selection Table
Inspection

The Selection Table

We state the actual process on each product page. A piece is only called hand-painted when it is.

The Charm Wall
Daily Wear

The Charm Wall

Playful ceramic beads — cats, stars, flambe cubes — are selected from Jingdezhen glaze experiments for everyday wear.

How selection works

Selected in Jingdezhen, not commissioned.

We buy from workshops, we do not run a kiln

Qingci is a selection house. Pieces are chosen in Jingdezhen from small workshops and kilns; we do not claim to have thrown or painted them ourselves, and we do not put a master's name on work we cannot verify.

What we check before a piece is listed

Ring and body on a tap test, glaze evenness, foot finish, lid and spout fit on tea ware, and whether the decoration is actually brushwork. Pieces that fail go back.

What we write down

Material, form, capacity, care, and the item code appear on every product page, taken from the same record we use to pack the order.

What we will not do

We do not invent artisan biographies, we do not stage awards, and we do not publish a review we did not receive. Where we lack information — exact dimensions on some pieces, for example — the page stays silent rather than guessing.

Plain terms

What our words mean.

These terms appear across the product pages. This is exactly what each one means when we use it.

Hand-painted
The decoration was applied with a brush, piece by piece, so no two are identical. We only use this term when it is true. Where a piece uses a transfer or decal, the product page says so instead.
Thrown / trimmed
The body was raised on a wheel and trimmed by hand. Wheel-thrown pieces carry small asymmetries in the wall and foot; that is the method showing, not a fault.
Moulded / pressed
The body was formed in a mould, which keeps a shape repeatable. Many plates, jars and figurines are made this way, and it is not a lesser method — it is simply a different one.
Kiln-change / flambé
A glaze whose final colour is decided by the kiln atmosphere rather than by the painter. Every piece fires to its own colouring, so the one you receive will differ from the photo.
Crackle / ice-crack
A deliberate network of fine lines in the glaze, produced by the glaze and body cooling at different rates. It is a decorative effect, not damage.
Celadon
A high-fired glaze in the green-to-blue family, valued for depth of colour rather than for surface decoration.