寇富平《梅花香炉》的艺术与传承 <p class="ql-block" style="text-align:center;">正见闻</p> <p class="ql-block"> “建白瓷”，这一德化瓷苑中的明珠，历经一千多年岁月淘洗，在当代迎来了薪火相传的新篇。而寇富平大师，作为“建白瓷”的守护者与开拓者、当代“建白瓷”之父，更是以毕生心血为这门技艺注入新的生命力。其早年力作《梅花香炉》，便是融古开新的典范，在德化白瓷的艺术长河中，镌刻下独树一帜的印记。</p> <p class="ql-block"> 《梅花香炉》的型制，脱胎于德化宣德年间的狮耳簋式炉，却在寇老的刻刀下完成了惊艳的升级与创新。炉身侈口圆唇，线条婉转间勾勒出雅致轮廓；阔颈垂腹的造型，既承袭了古炉的端庄大气，又以柔润的弧度赋予器物灵动之美；三足鼎立的设计，稳稳撑起炉身，尽显沉稳厚重。</p><p class="ql-block"> 腹部塑贴的梅枝与梅花，是这件作品的点睛之笔：五朵梅花刻划细致入微，花瓣层叠舒展，花心脉络清晰，梅枝虬曲苍劲，仿佛将寒冬中傲立的梅景凝于瓷上。“梅开五福”的美好寓意，更让这件器物超越了实用与观赏的范畴，成为承载吉祥期许的艺术载体。香炉里外通体施釉，釉质莹润如脂，釉色白中透黄，正是“建白瓷”独有的温润质感，灯光下宛若凝脂泛光，尽显瓷质之美。</p> <p class="ql-block"> 回溯德化古瓷的收藏脉络，北京故宫博物院所藏的德化炉型多为圈足样式，其整体造型仿西周青铜簋形，颈部常以塑贴狮面为耳，模仿青铜簋的兽面衔环铺首，是德化瓷仿古工艺的经典范式。而寇富平大师的《梅花香炉》，大胆摒弃传统狮耳元素，以三足配梅花为核心意象，在德化瓷炉的创作中实属罕见。这份敢于突破的创新，并非对传统的背离，而是在深研古瓷精髓后的再创造——既保留了德化“建白瓷”的材质与工艺精髓，又融入中式美学中“梅”的文化意象，让古雅的炉型与高洁的梅韵相融，成就了独属于当代的瓷艺表达。</p> <p class="ql-block"> 作为中国陶瓷艺术终身成就奖获得者，寇富平大师对“建白瓷”的守护，在于对传统工艺的精研与传承；而其开拓，则体现在对器物精神的当代转译。</p><p class="ql-block"> 《梅花香炉》虽为早年作品，却已然彰显出他的艺术视野：从青铜礼器的形制中汲取古韵，从自然花木中撷取意趣，让“建白瓷”在守正中创新，在创新中延续文脉。这件作品，不仅是一件精美的陶瓷艺术品，更是寇老践行“建白瓷”传承与发展的生动注脚，也让我们看到，当传统瓷艺遇上匠心巧思，便能在时光中绽放出不朽的艺术光彩。</p> <p class="ql-block"><b><i>Plum Blossom Aroma in Jade Rhythm, White Porcelain Forged with Ingenuity - The Art and Inheritance of Kou Fuping's Plum Blossom Incense Burner</i></b></p><p class="ql-block"> "Jian white porcelain", a pearl in the Dehua porcelain garden, has gone through hundreds of years of trials and tribulations, ushering in a new era of inheritance in contemporary times. Master Kou Fuping, as the guardian and pioneer of "Jian white porcelain" and the father of contemporary "Jian white porcelain", has devoted his entire life to injecting new vitality into this craft. His early masterpiece Plum Blossom Incense Burner is a model of integrating tradition and innovation, leaving a unique mark in the artistic history of Dehua white porcelain.</p><p class="ql-block"> The shape of Plum Blossom Incense Burner is derived from the lion-ear gui-style burner of the Xuande period in Dehua, yet it has been upgraded and innovated brilliantly under Master Kou's carving knife. The burner has a flared mouth and round lips, with graceful lines outlining an elegant silhouette; the wide neck and hanging belly inherit the dignity and grandeur of ancient burners, while the soft curves endow the vessel with a vivid beauty; the three-legged design firmly supports the burner body, showing a sense of stability and heaviness. The plum branches and plum blossoms molded and pasted on the belly are the finishing touch of this work: five plum blossoms are carved with meticulous detail, with overlapping and stretching petals and clear veins in the flower cores, and the plum branches are twisted and vigorous, as if condensing the plum scene standing proudly in the cold winter onto the porcelain. The auspicious implication of "five blessings brought by plum blossoms" makes this vessel transcend the scope of practicality and appreciation, becoming an artistic carrier bearing auspicious expectations. The incense burner is glazed inside and out, with a smooth and fat glaze texture and a glaze color that is white with a hint of yellow, which is the unique warm texture of "Jian white porcelain". Under the light, it glows like condensed fat, fully showing the beauty of the porcelain quality.</p><p class="ql-block"> Looking back at the collection context of ancient Dehua porcelain, most of the Dehua burner types collected by the Palace Museum in Beijing are ring-footed styles. Their overall shape imitates the bronze gui of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the neck is often decorated with lion-faced ears to imitate the animal-mask ring holders on the bronze gui, which is a classic paradigm of Dehua porcelain's archaistic craftsmanship. Master Kou Fuping's Plum Blossom Incense Burner boldly abandons the traditional lion-ear element and takes the three legs and plum blossoms as the core imagery, which is extremely rare in the creation of Dehua porcelain burners. This bold innovation is not a departure from tradition, but a re-creation after deeply studying the essence of ancient porcelain—it not only retains the material and craft essence of Dehua "Jian white porcelain", but also integrates the cultural imagery of "plum" in Chinese aesthetics, making the ancient furnace shape blend with the noble plum rhyme, and achieving a unique contemporary porcelain art .</p><p class="ql-block"> As a winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Chinese Ceramic Art, Master Kou Fuping's guardianship of "Jian white porcelain" lies in the careful study and inheritance of traditional craftsmanship; his pioneering work is reflected in the contemporary translation of the spiritual connotation of the vessel. Although Plum Blossom Incense Burner is an early work, it already shows his artistic vision: drawing ancient charm from the shape of bronze ritual vessels and extracting artistic conception from natural flowers and trees, allowing "Jian white porcelain" to innovate while adhering to tradition and continue the cultural context in innovation. This work is not only an exquisite ceramic artwork, but also a vivid footnote to Master Kou's practice of inheriting and developing "Jian white porcelain". It also lets us see that when traditional porcelain art meets ingenuity, it can bloom immortal artistic splendor in time.</p>