Jiangxi Jingdezhen porcelain is an outstanding representative of China’s porcelain craft by celadon period “into the” period of ceramics. It is known for its fine porcelain, elegant, variety, unique style. After the Song Dynasty, after the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Jingdezhen gradually developed into the center of China’s porcelain manufacture. Jingdezhen porcelain ceramic “white as jade, bright as a mirror, as thin as paper, sound like a melody, become an important asset in the treasure house of Chinese culture. Our late writer and poet Guo had the verse “the country of China No. porcelain, Porcelain peak this.” Today, Jingdezhen porcelain porcelain carving exquisite range of technology, both as a high-grade ceramic tableware, but also as an art handed down curios. Artistic expression or solemn, deep, fresh and elegant, or magnificent, worthy of a charming Jingdezhen porcelain museum.
Jingdezhen porcelain, household names, including women and children. Which blue and white, exquisite, pastels, color glaze, collectively known as the “four traditional porcelains of Jingdezhen, eggshell porcelain that magical treasures, porcelain sculpture of China’s traditional arts and crafts.
Blue and white porcelain
Blue and white porcelain is the highest of the four traditional porcelains, which began in the Song Da Sheng mature in the Ming and Qing dynasties, known as the “human treasures”. The blue and white is a underglaze porcelain, cobalt oxide blue and white porcelain patterns, depicted in the mold and applied a layer of colorless transparent glaze once firing into the kiln at high temperature. Its crystal glaze, thorough, pattern matched the blue and white, the picture is clean and simple and elegant, crisp style, with the effect of traditional Chinese ink painting, constitutes a white glaze blue and white in a town, flower glaze seeped distinct characteristics, making other porcelain can not The unbeatable. A lot of blue and white porcelain treasures are still being detained collection in the Museum of Britain, the United States and other countries. Durable blue and white porcelain, porcelain is not broken, the color does not fade, is internationally hailed as the “porcelain country, Pearl.
Exquisite blue and white porcelain
Exquisite blue and white porcelain, also known as “rice”, is in the the Ming Yongle hollow process based on the creation and development of more than 500 years of history, Jingdezhen original traditional products. Artists with a blade through flower carved on thin mold and rice-shaped hole, also known as the exquisite eye, and then fill in the exquisite glaze, filling the pass-dong, baked into the kiln. Thus, in the same piece of porcelain, blue and white and exquisite cleverly blend together a green transparent Delicate and elegant, green blue and white set off each other, each other. The formation of exquisitely carved, quiet pretty elegant unique style, foreigners called it “embedded glass porcelain. Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, the imperial kiln specialized generic exquisite porcelain and other valuable porcelain, exquisite porcelain more refined.
Painted Porcelain
Painted Porcelain is the strongest performance of the four traditional porcelains decorated, it is developed on the basis of multicolored glaze color. That is mixed with lead powder pigment painting in prime vitreous enamel firing, and then at a temperature of 2,400 degrees Celsius baking together, showing different shades of color, shades of coordination, both full of the charm of Chinese painting, There is a sense of relief. This porcelain color effect gives to moist pink beauty, hence the name pastels. Because it has a soft, elegant artistic appeal, so called soft color. Fen Caici fired in the late Qing Dynasty Emperor Kangxi, Yongzheng period to be developed, perfected the Qianlong period. Pastel take more Chinese painting color meticulous of work with writing and no bone freehand techniques, the screen filled with strong ethnic characteristics. Chinese historical stories and myths main character, a beautiful and colorful landscape, the lifelike bird feathers, neat symmetrical geometric patterns, very high artistic value, a model of oriental art.
Color glaze porcelain
Color glaze porcelain colorful, four porcelains is the most compelling, known as the “man-made stones. The manufacture of color glaze, plus some kind of metal oxide in the glaze and natural ore, after the roasting, the formation of colorful decorative effect. The people said, “What is the color, you can burn out what color porcelain nature.” That is true, Jingdezhen firing color glazed porcelain, glaze wished gorgeous, gentle and unassuming green glazed, glaze colorful, crystalline glaze is ever-changing, and some, like the starry, some like ten thousand rays, some like joy, and some, like the flowers are blooming, the magical art effect is good praise and bow. Ming Dynasty on the basis of Jun red, pottery making people create a better quality high-temperature copper red glaze – offering red. This glaze Johnson but not brilliant red, slightly purple, deep color stability, the ancient royal ceremonial vessels this glaze, later known as the “Festival red”. The world color glazed porcelain crown, offering red crown a dazzling jewelry, thousands of kilns Bao said. The color glaze yellow, Ji yellow, peacock blue and other varieties, the for Chinese porcelain Court win to a riot of color, the state made a very Yan prosperity.
Today, Jingdezhen new from craftsmen continue to learn from the advantages of the sister art to enrich the development of the art of their favorite, so that the porcelain skills are becoming more and more sophisticated, and finally to consummate, superb situation. To the essence and beauty of porcelain, everyone out of Jingdezhen. “
