CHINE, EPOQUE CONTEMPORAINE, SIGNES JIANG RONG

Jiang Rong (1919-2008) was a prominent contemporary Yixing artist and was awarded the title of "China Arts and Crafts Master.” In 1956, the Jiangsu provincial government named her as the Jishu Fudao, or “technician teacher”, for Yixing pottery, which was regarded as the highest honour in the arts and crafts industry in China at the time. She worked in the naturalistic tradition and was the only woman among the 'Six Old Masters' chosen to teach in the main factory when Yixing ware was revived in the 1950s.