Dragon Across Horizons | White Porcelain Round Box · Four Spheres as One

Four seas, one family — collecting every good connection along the way

Dragon Across Horizons is a white porcelain round box by Heinrich Wang — four spheres joined as a single connected form, open to each other, with no division between them. This is the design's core statement: the four seas are one family, and what flows between them flows freely. A dragon rendered in a few spare lines sits atop the lid — part dragon, part cloud, fully alive. For collecting small treasures, for displaying on a desk or at an entrance, and for gifting at any occasion where connection and generosity matter.

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Contemporary White Porcelain Craft · Fired at 1300°C

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Designed by Taiwanese artist Heinrich Wang

Designed by contemporary white porcelain artist Heinrich Wang, each piece embodies Eastern philosophy and contemporary form.

Transforming life philosophy into functional art, conveying a Zen-inspired modern aesthetic.

Transparent-glazed pure white porcelain | Hand crafted

Crafted with a transparent glaze technique, revealing the pure beauty of porcelain’s natural white after firing.

Only human hands can convey their warmth — every NewChi Porcelain piece is handmade, embracing the challenges of fine porcelain craftsmanship.

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Perfect for important festivals, greetings to elders, corporate gifting, and art collections — conveying taste and blessings. If you would like a handwritten all-occasion card, please note your request in the remarks field at checkout.

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Why Dragon Across Horizons | Why This Piece

A few lines, a complete spirit. Heinrich Wang did not build this dragon from accumulated detail. He drew it in the manner of Chinese ink painting's xieyi tradition — the fewest possible strokes to capture the fullest possible life. The result is a dragon that is also a cloud, a form that shifts depending on the angle and the light, never fully settled into one reading. This is the classical Chinese aesthetic of xieyi applied to white porcelain: not likeness, but presence.

An echo across two thousand years. The spare, flowing lines of this dragon are in conversation with the jade dragon pendants of the Warring States period — objects that conveyed the full power of the dragon form through minimal, elegant curves. Wang's dragon speaks the same visual language, in a contemporary white porcelain that could not be more different from ancient jade and yet recognizes the same formal intelligence.

Four spheres connected as one — the four seas as one family. The four round forms are not four separate containers. They are one continuous interior, open to each other, flowing between the spheres without division. This is the design's deepest meaning: sìhǎi yījiā — the four seas as one family, what one holds, all hold. No compartments. No borders. Only connection.

使用情境｜Usage Scenarios

Festive occasions
Dragon Boat Festival rice dumplings, Mid-Autumn sweets, Lunar New Year candies — the connected interior holds whatever the occasion calls for, and the four spheres together on a table present the celebration at its most refined.
Desk and workspace
The open connected form suits a collection of small objects — sweets, keepsakes, small stationery items. White porcelain gives even the most ordinary corner of a desk a quality of intention.
Entrance display
Four spheres with a dragon moving across them, placed at the entrance — the dragon that moves across all horizons greets every departure and every return. Keys, a name card, a small stone: whatever belongs at the threshold.

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設計細節｜Design Detail

The dragon on the lid is rendered in shallow relief — the line of the body carries the movement of a cloud as much as the movement of a dragon, so that looking at it from different angles produces different readings. This ambiguity is deliberate: xieyi does not fix meaning, it opens it. The dragon is present in the lines; what exactly it is doing is left to the eye that finds it.

The difficulty of the joined sphere form lies in this: each sphere's lid and body must have shrinkage accounted for before firing, so that after the kiln the arcs meet and the lid sits as intended. The four spheres are connected — the structure moves together — and the lid surfaces without a dragon form to hold them are most prone to warping during firing, while the body centers tend to rise. The four spheres standing together create a continuous flow of dragon forms between them — like a dragon moving across four seas, the energy unbroken, the whole inseparable.

Product Detail

Design Concept

Dragon Across Horizons is a white porcelain round box by Heinrich Wang, designed around the aspiration sìhǎi yījiā — the four seas as one family, all things connected, nothing withheld. The four spheres are a single continuous interior: open between them, flowing between them, undivided. The dragon on the lid is drawn in the xieyi manner of Chinese ink painting — a few lines that carry the full spirit of the form, part dragon, part cloud, alive in the ambiguity between them. The design is in conversation with the jade dragon pendants of the Warring States period, reinterpreting a two-thousand-year-old formal language in contemporary white porcelain. The piece is generous in spirit, light in presence, and carries the quality that Heinrich Wang values most in an object: it asks to be lived with.

Occasions or Usage

The four spheres are one connected interior — there are no separate compartments, and what is placed inside moves freely between the spheres. The piece works as a display object when closed, and as a collector of small things when open. The dragon form reads differently at different angles; the full piece rewards time spent with it.

Ideal For

Personal use: Those who want the objects on their desk, shelf, or tea tray to carry cultural depth alongside daily function

Gifting: Career promotions, Dragon Boat Festival, business opening gifts, occasions where the wish is for wide connections and an open, generous path forward

Collecting: The xieyi dragon in dialogue with Warring States jade aesthetics makes this one of the most culturally layered pieces in the NewChi Porcelain range

Dimension

14.5 × 13.5 × H 11.6 cm

Four seas, one family.
No horizon too far.
Happily gathering all the good connections of this life.
— Heinrich Wang

About the Artist | Heinrich Wang

Heinrich Wang, founder of NewChi Porcelain and Tittot, is one of Taiwan’s most representative contemporary artists in white porcelain and liuli glass. Renowned for infusing philosophy and poetry into object design, his works have been exhibited at the National Museum of History in Taiwan, the Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute, and the Triennale di Milano, earning recognition from collectors worldwide. Every porcelain piece is personally overseen by Wang, offering an aesthetic choice that unites artistry, cultural depth, and practical function.

Discover More Heinrich's Design Note

What makes the dragon design on Dragon Across Horizons different from traditional dragon imagery?

Traditional dragon forms in Chinese decorative art rely on accumulated detail — scales, claws, elaborate ornamentation — to convey power and authority. Heinrich Wang took the opposite approach: a few spare lines, drawn in the manner of xieyi ink painting, to capture the spirit of the dragon rather than its surface. The result is a dragon that is also a cloud — a form that shifts depending on how you look at it, never fully resolved into a single reading. The design echoes the jade dragon pendants of the Warring States period, which conveyed the full presence of the dragon through minimal, flowing curves. Two thousand years apart, the same formal intelligence.

Are the four spheres separate containers, or is it one connected piece?

One connected piece. The four spheres share a single continuous interior — there are no walls or divisions between them. This is the design's core meaning: sìhǎi yījiā, the four seas as one family, open to each other, nothing withheld. The piece does not separate and reassemble. It is whole, and its wholeness is the point.

What occasions is Dragon Across Horizons appropriate for as a gift?

The aspiration at the heart of this piece — to move through the world with openness, to build connections in every direction, to hold the four seas as one family — translates naturally into any occasion that marks a new phase of expanded possibility. Career promotions are the most direct fit; Dragon Boat Festival, business openings, and the beginning of a new year are also appropriate. The piece ships in a gift box and presents well without additional packaging.

Gift Wrapping

Each NewChi Porcelain piece comes with an elegantly designed gift box.

From the moment it is opened, it conveys your thoughtfulness and refined taste.

Whether it’s a housewarming gift, a wedding present, or a gesture of appreciation for someone important, it expresses warmth and emotion beyond words.

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