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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southeast China southwest of Shanghai in Jiangxi province. It is known for its pottery industry.
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Examples
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Until today the biggest issue surrounding the work had been whether it was OK to take one of seeds, all hand-crafted in Jingdezhen, China's porcelain capital.
Ai Weiwei's Turbine Hall installation closed 'over health and safety concerns' Mark Brown 2010
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Now Jingdezhen is reverting to its old cottage industry with small scale artisans producing high quality work.
Chinese Antiquities 2007
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I'm writing this from Jingdezhen, which is the porcelain capitol of the entire globe (sorry Kohler toilet factory in Sheboygan, Wisconsin).
Extreme Craft 2009
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They have to come from somewhere, and overwhelmingly, that somewhere is Jingdezhen, which is where porcelain was initially discovered, and where the imperial kilns were located during China's dynastic era.
Extreme Craft 2009
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To create the work, Ai commissioned the artisans of Jingdezhen, a town famous in China for producing porcelain for the emperor and for export.
John Feffer: Art v. State in China John Feffer 2011
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By what miraculous process of learning and practical synthesis, for example, did the anonymous Qing dynasty artists of Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province attain the astonishing result you see here?
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Philip Tinari, an art historian and incoming director of Beijing's Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, once joined Ai to troll for materials in Jingdezhen, a city southwest of Shanghai renowned for its porcelain industry.
The Art of Resistance Kelly Crow 2011
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By what miraculous process of learning and practical synthesis, for example, did the anonymous Qing dynasty artists of Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province attain the astonishing result you see here?
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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His "Sunflower Seeds" project last fall involved hiring 1,600 workers in Jingdezhen to create and hand-paint 100 million life-size porcelain "seeds," which he scattered like a rocky shore across the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall.
The Art of Resistance Kelly Crow 2011
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Hundreds of ceramic artisans in Jingdezhen, China, created the 100 million handmade and hand-painted replicas of sunflower seeds used in Mr. Ai's 2010 installation at the Tate Modern museum in London.
Sowing Seeds of Discussion Peter Plagens 2012
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