Dehua Porcelain Firing Technique

The Dehua porcelain firing craft is carried on in Dehua county of Quanzhou, where porcelain has long been made and shipped overseas through Quanzhou's port since the Song and Yuan.

Using fine kaolin, it passes through shaping, trimming, glazing and high-temperature firing, with a special mastery of porcelain sculpture, yielding wares of seamless, jade-like body and glaze.

Dehua white porcelain, known as 'blanc de Chine', holds an important place in the history of Chinese ceramics and overseas trade, entering the first national ICH list in 2006.

Dehua county town is dotted with porcelain workshops and artists' studios, the heartland for understanding the craft.