POPORCELAIN® is an independent designer brand of contemporary porcelain jewellery, designed and lovingly handmade by Kay Jiaqi Zhou in Copenhagen, Denmark.
POPORCELAIN® is not about diamonds or gem stones; it's about earth that has been dug from the ground. After a long journey of design, experimenting, handcrafting, high-temperature firing and assembling, it miraculously becomes a piece of delicate and desirable porcelain jewellery.
Every piece of porcelain has experienced more than 15 hours of kiln firing, with temperatures reaching over 1200°C. Most of them need to be fired twice or even three times. Along with the sketching, crafting, cooling, polishing and assembling, producing the final finished piece is extremely time-consuming.
POPORCELAIN® products are carefully handcrafted. Every piece is unique in shape and no two are exactly the same.
CHAPTER 2
Crafting
Every petal is handcrafted.
They are all unique in shape.
No two are exactly the same.
CHAPTER 3
Glazing
Petals are dipped into glaze.
They are left to dry and
cleaned up before firing.
CHAPTER 4
Firing
18 hours of kiln firing,
with temperature reaching 1280°C,
turns clay flowers into
delicate porcelain pieces.
CHAPTER 5
Painting
After glaze firing, gold luster is carefully applied onto the porcelain, then is followed by a 800°C gold firing.
CHAPTER 6
Assembling
Different materials such as
metal, pearls or glass beads
will be applied in the
final assembling step.
"Clearly, if you compare my things with those of such firms as Tiffany, Boucheron and Cartier, of course you will find that the value of theirs is greater than that of mine. As far as they are concerned, it is possible to find a necklace in stock for one and a half million rubles. But of course these people are merchants and not artist-jewellers."
- Carl Fabergé -