Jingdezhen · Imperial · Contemporary

BLUE FIR

Imperial Quality, Contemporary Taste. Refined Jingdezhen porcelain for coffee, tea and contemporary living.

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Selected Objects

A small, changing selection from the collection — chosen rather than exhaustive.

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Porcelain

Forms, decorative systems, techniques, materials, motifs and periods — a structured way of looking at Jingdezhen porcelain.

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Jingdezhen

The city where Blue Fir works — its heritage, its long history, and the living porcelain culture of today.

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Look More Closely

Form, material, surface and fire each shape how porcelain is made and understood. Enter through one of these paths and follow the connections between technique, history and the objects themselves.

Blue Fir porcelain meiping vase

Forms

The Shape of Porcelain

From meiping and gaiwan to cups, dishes and forms developed for contemporary use — proportion determines how an object looks, balances and functions.

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Blue Fir porcelain dish with deep blue glaze

Decorative Systems

Colour, Glaze & Surface

Underglaze painting, overglaze enamels, combined decoration and monochrome glaze — four fundamentally different ways in which a porcelain surface can be created.

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Blue Fir porcelain vase with red glaze

Materials & Techniques

From Earth to Kiln

Porcelain stone, kaolin, cobalt, copper, glaze and fire. Follow the materials and techniques that turn mineral matter into porcelain.

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Blue Fir qingbai porcelain in lotus form

Periods

A Thousand Years of Jingdezhen

Song restraint, Yuan blue-and-white, Ming imperial production, Qing technical expansion and the living porcelain culture that followed.

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Selection Is the Standard

Jingdezhen is home to an extraordinary range of studios, makers, techniques, and materials, accumulated over more than a thousand years. Not everything made there becomes Blue Fir. We select, develop, and refine what meets our standard, then stand behind it.

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Blue Fir is a porcelain house working from Jingdezhen, selecting and developing objects for tea, coffee and contemporary living.

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