Jingdezhen porcelain firing colors, which can be described as colorful glaze, dazzling crystal, is hailed as the “gem”, is the porcelain one of four major traditional porcelains.
Brief introduction
Jingdezhen porcelain firing colors, which can be described as colorful glaze, dazzling crystal, is hailed as the “gem”, is the porcelain one of four major traditional porcelains.
Its glaze guangyan gorgeous, elegant Celadon Mazumdar, clear bright yellow glaze, glaze mottled quaint. The crystalline glaze is even more enormous, burst sizes of products flower, flowers, shine, it’s wonderful artistic effect is indescribable.
Classification
Color projection color glazed porcelain. There are many kinds of categories: Isshiki species who said monochrome, multicolor who said white glaze, firing temperature above 1200 degrees in temperature is called color glaze, 1000 degrees below called cryogenic color glaze. Glazes containing clay, quartz and flux. Colorants are copper, iron, cobalt, manganese compounds. Low temperature color glaze mostly nature scenery, flora and fauna named for ivory kiln red. Ming and Qing dynasties, the color of the porcelain color on the very rich, and then the new China was founded 50 years of development, it is colorless and is not prepared, in addition to restore traditional glaze 56 kinds of outside, but also a variety of glaze over 60 kinds of innovation . Phoenix clothing glaze, rainbow enamel and so on. Color is very rich, selling products all over the world.
Crafts
Color glazed porcelain is a variety of metal oxides and natural ore as colorants in the glaze inside plus a metal oxide, high temperature or low temperature roasting, they’ll show some intrinsic color, which is the color of the glaze, the impact color glaze colorant mainly from the effect of the metal oxide, in addition to the composition of the glaze, Liaoduo size, firing temperature and the firing atmosphere has a close relationship. People say, “What is the color of nature, you can burn out the color of the porcelain.” If you visit to the color of Jingdezhen porcelain, will believe that is true. Of course, there are many color glaze ingredients and firing is very difficult, such as the “Festival glaze”, there is one thousand kiln a treasure said.
History
Porcelain glaze, from the Shang Dynasty pottery yellow glaze. Han Jin early invasive green glazed porcelain. To the Tang Dynasty, it also created the yellow, purple, green-based three-color glazed Song appeared days, pink glaze, ruby glaze, glaze and glaze Zibao. The Ming Dynasty, there was hook red, offering red, Lang kiln red, carmine, Drunken other valuable glaze. Jun red is our earliest copper red glazed porcelain, Song Jun Henan Yuzhou the firing state, hence the name “Yun red”, its birth, the end of blue and white porcelain was champion of the situation, which in the history of the development of Porcelain is indeed an epoch-making event.
Yuan later, Jun fading, no longer burning, it is fortunate that Yuzhou Jun red firing porcelain production skills by other regions inherited. Jingdezhen began firing from Song Jun red glazed, has continued ever since.
From the Ming started following the work of Jingdezhen porcelain Jun red after he created another high-temperature copper red glaze – offering red, it demon but not brilliant, red, slightly purple, the color deep and stable, no cracks texture glaze , is in the color of porcelain treasures.
What is a “Festival red”? There is a folk legend: There is a porcelain artist, superior skills, designed for firing imperial porcelain palace. The artist is only a woman, named Jihong, natural beauty, father and daughter had each other to porcelain living. Imperial palace to be burned because once Pinjia porcelain kiln firing dozens of kiln has not even succeeded, seeing to date, do not imperial porcelain kiln firing workers all have been killed, Jihong to save his father, and all the kiln workers, they do their own blood glaze firing a kind of rare rare porcelain solemn tone and stability, Jihong girls rescued his father and all the kiln, bled to death because of their own, to commemorate the heroes of the congregation woman, future generations will this porcelain called “Festival red”, change “following the” word “sacrifice.”
The difficulty of making even offering red color glaze on the other, the traditional production methods indeed spared no expense, the ancient recipe not only pearls, agate, jade and gold mixed with other needs, the breadth of its ingredients, the price is high so that future generations marvel, but Even if the samples, when using the same formula, as long as the temperature, atmosphere and time slightly different firing often not a good product, the difficulty has always been offering red porcelain firing, so it is more than other expensive precious color glazed.
Works
Hot collection
In contemporary ceramic art, most of the work using the traditional decoration techniques, due to its firing process is simple, high yield, although including some master of fine, but because of the large number, and easy to imitate, markets are more similar, appreciation of the limited space.
High temperature color glaze painting is the result of high temperatures under Shaolian second creation, is the use of metal oxides as natural colorants, silicon, calcium, potassium, sodium, and a variety of minerals scientific configured glazes, ceramic float attached embryo, and after more than 1300 degree high temperature to form a liquid vitreous, and its blend of penetration, smooth, brilliant crystal formation, thick mottled colors. Color glazed generating process heat is not easy, 10 ceramic blanks put together more than 1300 degrees fire and fired, usually only 2-3 baked product can be intact, the success rate is only 20%.
Experts, this heat generated through cathartic artistic effect known as porcelain, “the most mysterious art”, although a few years ago in Beijing, Shanghai and other cities have not yet prevailed, but the high temperature color glazed been as a “national ceremony” to send abroad, so earlier by the world’s attention, Japan, France and other countries of collectors competing collection of this ancient Chinese ceramic art and modern technology combines innovative art. The so-called “Western influence” in recent years, the field of artistic porcelain “hot” for the domestic industry optimistic about market prices climbing higher and higher.
High temperature color glaze from the 1980s onwards was the trial of decoration. But color glaze different characteristics, in order to freely use a different color glaze, kiln fired at high temperatures can be obtained, satisfactory results, you need to constantly try potters, constantly fail to succeed. Therefore, only a few brave pursuit of innovation, the pursuit of artistic achievement potters can relate to this area. In addition, since it is difficult to withstand over 1300 degree heat, a lot of good glaze painted pottery blanks break in the kiln, and withstand high temperatures even after the kiln pottery blanks, after the kiln has since been “beyond recognition”, so naturally good works survived small and valuable.
