Zhang Daqian’s Reinvention of Wang Ximeng’s Singular Masterpiece

TeaTsy.com on Instagram: "Wang Ximeng’s A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains/千里江山圖 has endured for nearly a millennium. Today, that vision finds a new medium. Through a nine-hour trial of fire at 1,290°C, the essence of the Northern Song Dynasty is distilled into fine high-white porcelain. ​The glaze tells the story: misty cyan ridges descending into golden forests, eventually meeting the depth of silent, navy seas. Because the kiln-transformation is organic, no two vessels share the same la