Zhi Niu 执牛, DiCaoQing ZiNi 底槽青紫泥, made by L2A Senior Consummate Master Yuan Hui 高级振兴技艺师~袁辉。- commissioned in April and completed in Sept 2023 for our Esteemed Patron Mr J.Williams from Texas.
This is a very special work.
Mr Jeff Williams from Texas owns a ranch, and he wanted Senior Master Yuan Hui to craft a pot to commemorate the anniversary and his Birthday Celebration, and he approached us in April 2023.
Mr Williams specially wanted a work to commemorate his Ranch, with his famous Long-Horned Bulls!
This is the Zhi Niu new ZiSha work.
We asked Yuan Hui to craft the Bull Motif on top of Yuan Hui's already famous work, this "Feng Yun Zhi Bao 风云之豹" , replacing the Leopard Motif with the Long-Horned Bull Motif in his ranch.
This is a huge undertaking.
Senior Master Yuan Hui went out of his way tto approach a Grand Master to learn how to craft the Bull, and after THREE months of learning and adapting and improvising,
Yuan Hui succeeded finally!!!
He heaved a huge sigh of relief and punched the air when the Motif came out successfully.
Thereafter he was confident and did it again melding it with the lid and fired the whole pot, with an awe-inspiring success!!!!!!!
He needed a lot of learning, adapting and improvising because, contrary to what many of us believed and thought "if an Artist knows how to sculpture a Leopard, he would know how to craft a Bull or a Horse."
But no.
An Artist needed to totally find an able higher Master to learn the sculpture a new Animal.
And because of the EXTREMELY PRECARIOUS Long, Thin and Sharp horns of Mr Williams' Bulls in his Ranch, Senior Master Yuan Hui knew a huge undertaking was on the way.
Adding to the difficulty is that, there is no such breed native in China, and Senior Master Yuan Hui has to improvise and adapt, and went through many huge trials and errors before he could succeed. He succeeded with huge aplomb eventually!!!
Senior Master Yuan Hui worked very hard for this, and Mr Jeff Williams has now a pot to commemorate his Birthday and the proud Anniversary of his Ranch!!!
