敦睦窯

林敦睦 x 邵淑芬

 

敦睦窯是林敦睦老師夫婦共同經營的茶具品牌。敦睦窯的每一件茶器皆是美術出身的林老師親自設計監工，再由習茶多年的夫人邵淑芬從茶人需求出發，仔細試用、給予微調的建議。

 

林老師早年從事古董買賣，因而與邵老師結緣。在一次因緣際會之下，收購了一只天青釉胭脂斑的鈞窯海碗，愛不釋手，一聽這只海碗來自江西景德鎮，便親自造訪，也意外開啟了瓷器事業，算是回歸了學生時代的本行。

 

品牌成立之初，窯址位於景德鎮，取名「玩物尚置」，意指要為每個珍愛的物件找到適恰的位置；2009年遷址到德化後，便根據林老師的本名，將品牌改為「敦睦窯」。基於林老師對古物的喜愛和品味，初期作品多為稍微大型的鈞窯、龍泉窯花器、擺件。由於習茶，邵老師便提議何不燒製茶器？然而龍泉窯釉料厚重，就喝茶而言不夠輕薄順手，於是林老師便靈機一動想到了釉中彩技法，也成為第一位將釉中彩應用於茶器的藝術家。「釉中彩」指的是將彩繪顏料夾在兩層透明釉當中。由於顏料彩度愈高，含鉛量亦愈高，若是包夾在兩層透明釉料中，便可以免除毒素接觸食物唇舌的疑慮，又能保有色彩的鮮活。釉中彩需要三次繁複的燒製程序，素胚燒製成型後，先上透明釉高溫燒成白胎，接著彩繪，繪好後噴上透明釉，再經高溫燒製才是成品。當中每一步驟只要落了一絲窯灰，稍有一點變形，都得打為次品，無形成本相當高。 

「白如玉、薄如紙、聲如罄」是敦睦窯對每件作品的基本要求，崇尚宋元清逸雅緻畫風的林老師，講究構圖比例留白精準、筆觸靈動鮮活、設色鮮美卻不俗豔。剛到景德鎮時，光是改正畫工們畫面愈畫愈滿的習慣，便花了許多時間溝通。敦睦窯的特色，除了融合古韻與新意，更重視茶人們使用的順手度，每件器物的比例、重量、出湯角度都經過細細思量。工筆花卉各個獨一無二，杯底、壺壁上散落的點點落花、葉片都饒富旨趣，令人愛不釋手。除此之外，敦睦窯茶具釉脂瑩潤，除了具有瓷器最大的優勢，能忠實展現各種茶種的風味特色外，更有非常好的聚香效果！

 

DuenMu Kiln

Lin Duen-mu x Shao Shu-fen

DuenMu Kiln is a tea ware brand established by a lovely couple Lin Duen-mu and Shao Shu-fen. Every art pieces of DuenMu Kiln were designed and supervised by Master Lin, who was majored in fine art. Later on tested by Mrs. Lin, based on her many years of tea learning experience.

 

Master Lin worked as an antique dealer in the early years, and that was how he met Mrs. Lin. Once in an antique hunting, they found a beautiful Jun Kiln bowl with the color of sky blue and mix up with sunset-glow-like purplish red streaks. Master Lin loved it so much that he visited JingDeZhen, the origin of this bowl, right away. And therefore accidently established their new business: the manufacture of porcelain.

 

The kiln was firstly based in JingDeZhen, China, and the brand was called another name: WanWuShangZhi, in Chinese it means to find the right place for each beautiful thing in life. Later on they moved the kiln location to DeHua, China, and re-named the brand after Master Lin’s name: DuenMu. Base on Master Lin’s taste and appreciation to ancient Chinese culture; the early products were mostly large decoration items, in Jun Kiln and LongQuan Kiln style. Due to the love to tea, Mrs. Lin start wondering, why not let us make some tea ware? Nevertheless, the characteristic of LongQuan Kiln is the thickness of glaze, which is too heavy for tea ware. Thereupon, Master Lin thought of a traditional technique, which is called the middle-glazed technique. And he became the first person who applied the middle-glazed technique in the tea ware. In the manufacture of porcelain, the higher saturation of the pigment, the higher content of lead. The so-called middle-glazed technique is to place the paint in between of tow layers of transparent glaze, and therefore can keep the vividness of color, but with no misgivings about being poisoned. The manufacture of middle-glazed porcelain is complicated, and with very high invisible costs. Firstly to make a biscuit, then put on transparent glaze to make it plain porcelain via extremely high temperature. Next is the painting process, and another layer of transparent glaze on the finished painting, then followed by the last time of firing. A masterpiece could be ruined in every step of the process, as long as there’s a single ash drops, or a little bit of deformation occurs.

 

There was an old Chinese saying describing the beauty of porcelain "White as a white jade, thin as a paper, sound like Ching (an ancient Chinese music instrument) when you knock it. This is also the standard Master Lin set for DuenMu Kiln. Master Lin admires the delicate and elegant painting style of the Song and Yuan Dynasty. Therefore, the composition of picture, the vividness of brushstroke and the accuracy of color of all pieces are strictly required in DuenMu Kiln.

 

All these high qualities wasn’t achieved from the first day, when they first arrived JingDeZhen, it took months only to make the painters understand the beauty of Chinese painting is not to fill up the whole picture, but to leave some emptiness wisely as the readers’ imagination. DuenMu Kiln not only combined the beauty of the ancient and modern, but also takes good care of the practicability. The weight and the pouring angle of users of every art piece were all carefully considered. Every of the hand- painted tea ware are slightly different, the little petals and leaves that spread over the cups are so ingenious and lively. Last but not least, the glaze of DuenMu Kiln is smooth and exquisite that makes them suitable for all kinds of tea and absolutely good for condense the aroma of tea.