福建德化县素称内地三大瓷都之一,其传统外销产品瓷观音,在海外被誉为“国际瓷坛上的明珠”。明朝瓷塑艺人何朝宗雕塑的瓷观音最为杰出,形态生动优美,神态端庄慈祥,线条柔和。但到清末,闻名中外的“建白瓷”及瓷塑技术失传了。新中国成立后,“建白瓷”又在德化恢复生产,瓷塑观音重获新生,在艺术上继承、发扬了何朝宗的风格,品种远远超过前人。现在,外销瓷观音有十八手,披坐、立莲、坐莲、戴冠、跨鱼、送子等三十多种,最大的十八手观音高一百零四厘米,最小的只有九厘米高。此 Fujian Dehua County, said the mainland one of the three major porcelain, the traditional export products porcelain Guanyin, overseas known as the “international porcelain altar of the pearl.” Ming Dynasty porcelain entertainer He Zaizong sculpture Guanyin most outstanding, vivid and beautiful, demeanor dignified, soft lines. However, by the end of the Qing Dynasty, the famous “Chinese white porcelain” and porcelain-plastic technology were lost. After the founding of new China, “building white porcelain” in Germany to resume production, porcelain plastic Guanyin regain a new life, inherit art, carry forward the style of He Zhaosong, far more than the previous breed. Now, the export Guanyin eighteen hands, Phi sitting, Li Lin, sitting Lin, Dai Guan, cross the fish, to send more than thirty kinds of seeds, the largest eighteen Guanyin high one hundred and four centimeters, the smallest only nine centimeters high. this