China · Ceramic arts; Overglaze painting; Hong Kong heritage
廣彩製作技藝 (Gwong Coi); Hong Kong painted porcelain (Gong Coi)
The hand painting of white porcelain with overglaze enamels and gold, fired a second time at low temperature in a kiln. Guangcai (Guangzhou painted porcelain) grew out of the export trade of Qing-dynasty Guangzhou; it moved to Hong Kong in the 1920s, where it also adopted stamping and decals and became known as gangcai. Yuet Tung China Works is described as Hong Kong's last remaining hand-painted porcelain factory.
Risk level: Critically Endangered · Not listed by UNESCO. Item for inclusion in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Hong Kong (December 2024 update).
The making of three-dimensional paper objects on a bamboo frame, mounted with colored paper or silk and then painted and decorated.
The building of traditional wooden boats in Hong Kong's boatyards — sampans, fishing boats, junks and dragon boats — by shipwrights who bend hardwood planks around an internal frame and caulk the hull with bamboo fiber and tar.
A Boshan (Zibo, Shandong) lampworked glass tradition producing spherical glass "flower balls" -- solid or hollow orbs encasing miniature flowers, insects, fish, or other motifs formed from colored glass rods and worked over an open flame.
The hand-engraving and ink-printing of Buddhist scriptures onto knot-free pear wood blocks, practiced at the Jinling Sutra Printing House in Nanjing (historically called Jinling) since Buddhist revivalist Yang Renshan founded it in 1866 —…
The mortise-and-tenon joinery and dougong bracketing system underlying traditional Chinese timber-frame architecture, in which wooden components — a bearing block (dou) and a bow-shaped bracket (gong) — interlock without any glue or…
Yunnan batik (蜡染 là rǎn) is the wax-resist dyeing tradition practiced by multiple ethnic minorities of Yunnan province — primarily the Buyi (布依族), Shui (水族), and Bai (白族) peoples — and constitutes a distinct tradition from the Dali tie-dye…
The Habaner faience tradition of Moravia — the distinctive tin-glazed earthenware produced by the Habaner (Hutterite Anabaptist) communities who settled in South Moravia in the 16th–17th centuries, whose characteristic white tin glaze with…
The hand-modeling, open-air firing, and tannin-sealing of clay cooking pots (panelas), a technique of indigenous origin — archaeologically identified specifically with Tupi-Guarani and, more strongly, Una-tradition cultural legacy —…
The Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad) porcelain tradition — the hard-paste porcelain production of the Karlovy Vary region that made Bohemia, alongside Meissen and Sèvres, one of the three great European porcelain centers.
The coil-building and ground-firing (without a kiln) of Taíno-style earthenware pottery, preserved in its purest documented form by Alice Chéveres at Taller Cabachuelas in rural Torrecillas, a workshop founded in 1984 by her mother Evarín…
The hand-throwing of pottery in Bahla, a town in Oman's Ad Dakhiliyah region and site of the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Bahla Fort, producing incense burners, water jugs, coffee pots, and decorative ceramics using ancient techniques…
The Tiszafüred folk pottery tradition — the Great Plain earthenware tradition of the Tiszafüred region whose characteristic tulip and flower-painted cream-on-terracotta earthenware represents the most distinctive Great Plain ceramic…