The "Tribute to Changsha Kiln" International Ceramic Art Exhibition opened at the Changsha Tongguan Kiln Museum on 7 June 2026 and runs to 16 August — the first large-scale international exhibition in China built around Changsha Kiln.
Ninety-nine selected pieces from China and abroad are on display. The exhibits rebuild the Tang dynasty firing techniques for underglaze-coloured porcelain while bringing in modern concepts and materials. Changsha Kiln is where underglaze colour was effectively invented — the first workshops to paint under a glaze rather than on top of it, and the reason the technique travelled the maritime Silk Road at all.
The more consequential item is the inheritance training programme launched alongside the show. Exhibitions move objects; training moves the hands that can still make them. For anyone sourcing hand-decorated ceramics, the supply of trained decorators is the real constraint on the category — not clay, not kilns, not capital.
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