Colorful butterflies are flying all over the sky, adding brilliant colors to the flower bushes. The dense composition and rich golden color add vitality. This depicts Dancing Butterflies, a porcelain painting artwork, that won the gold medal in the 2022 Hong Kong International Porcelain Painting Art & Culture Show. The rare beauty is created by Betty Ho Liu…

HONG KONG—Step into Yuet Tung China Works, Hong Kong’s last remaining hand-painted porcelain factory, and you find yourself surrounded by stacks of dinnerware, each piece painstakingly decorated by hand with vibrant motifs of flowers, fruits, and animals. Joseph Tso, the third-generation owner of the factory, and his small team are among the few people in…

My front tooth is broken, discolored, looks different than the tooth beside it—it just doesn’t look nice. It looks like you need a crown or a veneer. By the 1960s, it became increasingly possible to restore teeth to highly aesthetic renditions of the originals. As with an inlay (mentioned in a previous article), a dental…

Chinese artisans had already been making porcelain for thousands of years when Venetian merchant Marco Polo first brought porcelain from China to Europe in the 14th century. Polo’s discovery started Europe’s enduring love of porcelain. European porcelain has a fascinating story to tell. “From functional pieces and decorative objects, to fine art and tableware, porcelain…

Dear James: The painted walls in my bathroom look too plain. I want to install some tile with a decorative pattern. Is it difficult to make designs and patterns myself? — Mia H. Dear Mia: Adding decorative tile or changing the existing tile pattern can dramatically enhance the entire bathroom. Although it is not difficult…