顾景舟(1915-1996),原名景洲。别称:曼希、瘦萍、武陵逸人、荆南山樵。自号壶叟、老萍。宜兴紫砂名艺人,中国美术家协会会员,中国工艺美术大师。18岁拜名师学艺。三十年代后期至上海制壶仿古。1954年进入宜兴蜀山陶业合作社。1956年被江苏省政府任命为技术辅导,带徒徐汉棠、高海庚、李昌鸿、沈遽华、束凤英、吴群祥等人。一生三次参加全国工艺美术代表大会,在港、澳、台、东南亚影响特大,被海内外誉为“壶艺泰斗”,作品为海内外各大博物馆、文物馆收藏。
Gu Jingzhou (1915-1996), formerly known as Jingzhou. Nicknames: Mancy, Slender Ping, Wuling Yiren, Jingnan Shanqiao. Self-titled potter, Lao Ping. Yixing Zisha famous artist, member of China Artists Association, master of Chinese arts and crafts. At the age of 18, he studied art with famous teachers. From the late 1930s to Shanghai, the pot was made to imitate antiquity. In 1954, he joined the Yixing Shushan Ceramic Co-operative. In 1956, he was appointed by Jiangsu Provincial Government as a technical counselor, with Xu Hantang, Gao Haigeng, Li Changhong, Shen Quhua, Shu Fengying, Wu Qunxiang and others. He participated in the National Congress of Arts and Crafts three times in his life, which had great influence in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. He was praised as a "pot art master" at home and abroad, and his works were collected by major museums and cultural relics at home and abroad.
紫砂壶造型无论是传统还是在现代,都是非常讲究其点、线、面的立体美感。讲究壶体整体的设计美感、新颖,这就要求制壶老师以人为本,加以人性化的设计,才能达到这样的效果出来。紫砂壶体讲究气度,而壶咀、壶把、壶钮的功能搭配协调。壶体结构搭配是否协调,这是关键,如果是光货表面是否平滑,咀把过渡是否自然,做工是否精细、干净、利落。此件紫砂壶为顾景舟紫砂壶,作品造型完整,技术高超,顾景舟老师将紫砂技术发扬光大,并与中国文化艺术结合起来,他的作品,应尊为神品,极具收藏价值。