Hengshui inner painting pot

The inner painting pot, also known as the inner painting snuff bottle, is a small bottle made of a feeder, which is rolled into a milky white wool glass bottle with iron sand, and then dipped in color with a very fine bamboo pen to draw various figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, animals and calligraphy in the bottle. It is a special handicraft in China. The inner painting pot was founded in the Qing dynasty, and its craft level was greatly improved after the artist summarized and explored it. Its materials are not only limited to glass, porcelain, ivory and enamel, but also copper, water, jade and leather. Common internal painting pots are mostly painted with calligraphy and traditional Chinese painting, and the reverse painting technique is the artistic feature of internal painting pots. Exquisite and exquisite works, exquisite and gorgeous, are extremely elegant artistic appreciation. The craft of painting pots in China can be divided into two schools, namely "Ji School" represented by Hengshui in Hebei and "Jing School" represented by Beijing. There are three kinds of materials used in painting pots of Ji school: glass, crystal and agate. Early artists of painting pots of Beijing school painted on smooth and transparent crystal and glass, and the pictures were simple and smooth. After that, the inner wall of the pot was frosted with emery, which was white but not slippery, just like painting on rice paper, so that the technique of China's traditional Chinese painting was carried forward in the skill of painting the pot inside. Beijing inner painting pot has a wide range of themes, fine paintings and unique flavor, and is well-known overseas.
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