Chen Zhiping, born in Erjia Town, Nantong, Jiangsu Province, in 1955, after graduating from junior high school, he had no money to learn carpentry from a teacher. Famous in the village.
He started a business in 1982, supplying Shanghai and Nanjing cultural relics stores, collecting ancient folk art, and having been in contact with art for many years.
In the 1980s, he went to Jingdezhen many times for inspections. When he met noble people, Cao Zhengwang, one of the four major ceramic family inheritors in Jingdezhen, Liu Yuanchang, a Chinese sculpture master, and Qian Weipeng, a world-renowned ceramic appraisal master, began to use Jingdezhen’s ore raw materials to make formulas. Fetal bone, glaze, grinding day and night, after a lot of hard work, thousands of trials, and tireless toil, a very characteristic asbestos workshop was built on a small hillside at the back door of the ancient kiln in Jingdezhen, and a pot was opened. A new journey of artistic creation.
Because of the deep woodworking foundation, he knows the combination of the structure and shape of each part of the teapot like the palm of his hand. He is very handy in the high-precision process of making molds and repairing the seeds. After thousands of trials and firings, from 2002 to 2007 In 5 years, he created more than 80 types of pots of various types, and later insisted on making and improving them, forming his own unique production style and characteristics, which are praised and recognized by everyone.
