Qian Liyuan, a famous pot maker, has been prosecuted in Yixing, Jiangsu Province.

[Qian Liyuan, a famous pot maker, was prosecuted in Yixing Zisha Circle of Jiangsu Province to eradicate black and evil. According to the information disclosed by Yixing Procuratorate on May 30, the court has prosecuted the case of "evil force criminal group" in Zisha industry.
Among the prosecution’s accusations, Qian Liyuan, a famous Yixing pot maker, and the other three people were also involved.
According to the report, Qian Liyuan, born in 1943, is a rare old person and a celebrity in Yixing purple sand circle. Open reports show that Qian Liyuan has been awarded the title of Jiangsu Province Arts and Crafts Celebrity, Jiangsu Province Ceramic Art Celebrity, Senior Research Fellow Arts and Crafts Artist. She has successively been taught by famous pot makers Gu Jingzhou, Jiang Rong, Wang Yinchun and so on. She has a lot of accomplishments in purple sand art.
Qian Liyuan’s involvement in the crime of "evil force group" caused a great shock in the local purple sand circle. Aiming at the netizens’worries about the black sand celebrities and craftsmen, the procuratorial organs responded in the Wechat Public Number, and will intensify their efforts to protect the "Yixing Business Card" from being tarnished.
Yixing is the origin of purple clay pot. The purple clay pot produced by Yixing is a unique ceramic art, which has been well-known in the world. Therefore, Yixing is also known as the "pottery capital" in the world. Data show that in 2016, Yixing China Ceramic City alone achieved sales revenue of more than 3 billion yuan.
According to the information disclosed by Modern Express in April 2011, there are more than 30,000 purple sand pottery artists and thousands of purple sand workshops in Yixing. According to the current situation, the works of national masters started at 100,000 yuan or even millions of yuan. The works of provincial masters of Arts and crafts generally ranged from 50,000 yuan to more than 100,000 yuan, and then down to the arts and crafts artists, whose prices ranged from tens of thousands to tens of thousands of yuan. The wholesale price of a purple clay pot will not exceed 100 yuan for any purple clay pottery artist with no professional title. In fact, a purple clay pot of 100 yuan and a purple clay pot of 1 million yuan have no difference in material, just because it comes from a famous family, the price rises ten thousand times sharply.
According to the Modern Express, in the past few years, the market of purple clay pots was very popular. Some Masters’pots were more than 100,000 yuan each time, but the market demand was still very strong. Someone grabbed one of them, and even some enterprises and institutions took out tens of millions of yuan to buy the master pots, trying to achieve asset preservation in this way.
According to the above-mentioned reports, driven by huge interests, some pot-making masters "fake their own works", asked "snatchers" to make purple clay pots for themselves, coupled with real master seals and authentic certificates, and finally no one can tell the truth from the fake, which is the so-called "snatching agent pot". And the contradiction caused by "rushing to do OEM" may be the trigger of this vicious case.Web links