Yingge ceramics
Simplified 莺歌陶瓷
Ceramics from Yingge in New Taipei City, Taiwan.
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Forms, use and context#
The Yingge Ceramics Museum dates the start to 1804, when Wu An, a potter from Cizao in Jinjiang (Quanzhou, Fujian), found clay at Tuzikeng and made coarse wares; work later moved to Jianshanpu. Output shifted over time to roof tiles, tableware, building tiles and export replicas. Today many studios make teaware, including Yixing-style red-clay pots.
Methods#
- Kiln types Snake kilns, baozai kilns, climbing kilns, square kilns and tunnel kilns.2
- Kiln sequence Wood-fired snake kilns first, then coal-fired square kilns (四角窯) under Japanese rule, then gas and electric kilns; coal bans led to many kilns and chimneys being removed.5
- Slip casting of teapots Teapot moulding and slip casting were taught in the museum's 2019 courses; its annual report says the skill faces a generational gap (漸面臨斷層).6
With tea#
- The museum's 2018 Yixing issue records Yingge and Nantou workshops making Yixing-style zhuni pots, one maker saying red building-brick clay was used.4
- The museum has run teapot and tea-ware exhibitions, and its Taiwan Ceramics Gold Award once used tea ware as its category.3
- Several present Yingge studios make teapots, tea caddies and tea bowls.1
- A 2014 thesis says cheap, plentiful slip-cast teapots (注漿茶壺) spread widely with the popular tea-art boom, and that the know-how passed through workshop practice.7
- Local pot-making began by copying red-clay Yixing pots; an international Golden Teapot competition began in 2008.8
Typical objects#
Not yet verified: teapot shape ids
Periods#
- 1804 – presentKiln founded by Wu An at Tuzikeng in Jiaqing 9; after the 1853 Zhang–Quan feud the work moved to Jianshanpu, suited to snake kilns.1
- 1926 – 1970sBlack roof tiles from 1926; bowls and plates after WWII; building tiles from the 1970s; much production moved to mainland China around 1995.2
- 1953 – 1980sYixing-style tea sets made by slip casting from 1953; a family workshop moved to red-clay (朱泥) teapots in the 1970s, and in 1982 Yingge teapot makers set up a joint sales company.4
- 1980sMass production peaked; tea-art houses were booming, and many used plastic or stainless-steel tea ware, a gap that clay teaware firms set out to fill.5
Kiln sites#
| Site | Period | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Jianshanpu (尖山埔), Yingge | from after 1853 | 1 |
Heritage listings#
2020
New Taipei City registered traditional craft (傳統工藝), Taiwan Cultural Heritage Preservation Act9
- Item
- 仿古陶瓷 (antique-style ceramics)
Announced 2020-04-29, with one recognised preserver; approved at the review meeting of 2020-04-06 (ntpc-crafts-review-2020-1). Not a teapot craft.
2020
New Taipei City registered traditional craft (傳統工藝)9
- Item
- 泥條盤築陶藝（土內走） (coil building)
Announced 2020-11-17, with one recognised preserver; a Fuzhou coil technique used for large water vats and jars, as opposed to wheel throwing (ntpc-crafts-review-2020-2).
2016
2016
Sources#
- 新北市立鶯歌陶瓷博物館 館刊第五期：鶯歌陶－工藝之家 (c. 2021) ↗
- 新北市立鶯歌陶瓷博物館 館刊第六期：三鶯文化旅行 (2021) ↗
- 劉鎮洲：從展覽看鶯歌陶瓷博物館在臺灣陶藝發展上所扮演的角色 (c. 2010) ↗
- 陶博館季刊 2018/1–3月：宜興紫砂（紫砂泥特色） ↗
- 新北市立鶯歌陶瓷博物館 館刊第七期 (2022) ↗
- 新北市立鶯歌陶瓷博物館 108年報 ↗
- 邱崧榕：鶯歌注漿茶壺生產技藝傳承研究 (碩士論文, 2014) ↗
- 吳姿瑩：跨域．整合．匯流—臺灣茶文化工藝 ↗
- 新北市傳統工藝一覽表 ↗
- 109年度第1次新北市政府傳統工藝暨古物審議會 會議紀錄 (2020-04-06) ↗
- 109年度第2次新北市政府傳統工藝暨古物審議會 會議紀錄 (2020-10-30) ↗
- 新北市歷史建築一覽表 ↗
Status and editorial notes draft
Sources are listed below. Their presence does not certify every claim; source-specific interpretations and unresolved questions are identified in the text. This page has not received independent expert approval.
- teapot shape ids
- Draft: written 2026-11-02 from the sources listed, all read on that date. Region id is proposed; no region entries exist in teaware data yet, and cha.fyi's region ids were not checked from this thread. Taiwan, so no PRC heritage list applies. Municipal heritage listings added 2026-11-02 from New Taipei's own lists; the national register (nchdb.boch.gov.tw) refused the cloud fetch, so cross-check there from the Mac. The Wu An/吳岸 spelling differs between issues 05 and 06. Taiwan batch 2026-11-02 added the teapot history (1953 slip casting, 1970s red clay, 1982 joint sales), kiln sequence and heritage items; those sources were read through a summarising fetch.