Motherly Love Ceramic Tableware by Ma Daoshun, Cai Lingling and Yang Chao

Motherly Love Ceramic Tableware by Ma Daoshun, Cai Lingling and Yang Chao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award in Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design Competition Category.

IronKitchenware· 2023

Motherly Love Ceramic Tableware

by Ma Daoshun, Cai Lingling and Yang Chao

Client: Jingdezhen Ceramic University

A' Design Award Winner in Kitchenware Category

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The Design

About Motherly Love Ceramic Tableware

Motherly Love is a set of ceramic tableware decorated with images of mothers and children among blooming flowers and plants. The design expresses family warmth and the strong feelings of Chinese people towards home. Bright colors and a novel composition are combined with traditional Chinese cultural elements. Each piece is made of high white clay, hand-painted with underglaze color, air dried and fired at 1400 degrees in a Jingdezhen kiln. The large plate is 270 mm wide and the small plate is 205 mm wide.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award

Motherly Love Ceramic Tableware is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Motherly Love Ceramic Tableware is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Motherly Love Ceramic Tableware is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.

Image Analysis

Color Temperature: WarmSymmetry: VerticalBackground: No Clear Backdrop

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The maternal love conveyed by mothers and children as design elements, as well as the blooming flowers and plants, reflect the warmth and power brought by a warm family to combine with our daily use of tableware.
Dimensions & Packaging: Large plate: Width 270mm x height 28 mm
Small plate: Width 205mm x height 25mm
Tags: Ceramic Design，Jing de zhen，family affection
Production Technology: It is hand-painted on ceramics, dried in the air, and fired at a high temperature of 1400 in a Jingdezhen kiln.
Design Challenge: The color changes during the ceramic firing process are uncontrollable and can't be controlled. After more than 20 times of firing and color adjustment, we have presented a beautiful picture.
Research: This is a ceramic tableware that expresses Muqing's love for children, conveying the strong feelings of Chinese people towards "home"; The overall picture is brightly colored, with novel composition and combined with traditional Chinese cultural elements, hoping to promote traditional Chinese culture such as family culture, filial piety culture, and love culture.
Inspiration: The maternal love conveyed by the work, as well as the warmth and strength brought by a warm family, are combined with our daily use of tableware to convey the strong emotions of Chinese people towards "home"; The overall picture is brightly colored, with novel composition and combined with traditional Chinese cultural elements, hoping to promote traditional Chinese culture such as family culture, filial piety culture, and love culture.
Project Duration: It is a ceramic tableware made of high white clay ceramics, combined with the "underglaze color" in the floral paper process. Each one is handmade and uniquely painted.
Operation Flow: Completed the design in Jingdezhen, China in 2022.
Team Members: Designer：Ma Daoshun;
Designer：Cai Lingling;
Designer： Yang Chao.
Image Credits: Image #1：Ma Daoshun Cai Lingling Yang Chao；
Image #2：Ma Daoshun Cai Lingling Yang Chao；
Image #3：Ma Daoshun Cai Lingling Yang Chao；
Image #4：Ma Daoshun Cai Lingling Yang Chao；