Yellow glaze, red glaze, white glaze and green glaze are just four glaze colors, and ten types of plates can be made.
There are three kinds of yellow glazes, two kinds of red glazes, one kind of white glazes, and four kinds of green glazes. Chen Wenzhe tried his best to keep these and did not let himself go too far.
If he really let go and let him do what he likes, he might be able to make fifteen or six colors now.
After doing this, Chen Wenzhe plans to increase the difficulty again.
"Just sprinkle it with blue glaze!" He did this the least, and it seemed like he only did it once.
However, after actually doing it, it feels very easy.
The blue glaze was done once before. No, to be precise, he originally made the blue glaze, but now for Chen Wenzhe, the difficulty is not much different. Now it is not difficult at all to do the blue glaze.
Of course, this is a reflection of Chen Wenzhe's profound accumulation. It is not easy to really do a good job in blue glaze.
Among the blue-glazed porcelains produced during the prosperous period of the Qing Dynasty, the Yongzheng blue-glazed porcelains were wrapped with Ji-blue glaze, sprinkled blue glaze, and sky-blue glaze, all of which had outstanding artistic achievements.
Yongzheng blue-glazed porcelain has its own unique craftsmanship in terms of shape, glaze, and markings.
The blue-glazed porcelain of the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty has generally made some progress and improvement compared to the Kangxi period. In particular, the quality of the wares fired by the pottery supervisor Tang Ying is the most outstanding.
Among them, Ji-blue glazed porcelain was still the mainstream product in the Yongzheng period. The number of fired blue-glazed porcelain was relatively small, but its quality was high, and the firing technology of sky-blue glazed porcelain was even more exquisite.
Ji-blue glazed porcelain from the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty has rich shapes, such as plates, bowls, basins, cylinders, jars, pots, washers, plum vases, cone-handled vases, jade pots and spring vases, slag buckets, tall bowls, pomegranate statues, etc.
Everything you need.
The main shapes of blue-glazed porcelain are statues, jars, washbasins, flower pots, chrysanthemum plates, garlic bottles, pomegranate statues, etc.
The shape of sky-blue glazed porcelain is mainly composed of various jars and bottles.
Such as drum-type lid jars, lotus seed jars; square bottles, elephant ear bottles, belt bottles, paper mallet bottles, celestial sphere bottles, conical handle bottles, dragon ear bottles, ribbon ear bottles, jade pot spring bottles, etc.
In addition, bowls, plates, statues, stoves, jars, washers, cups, lamp holders, flower pots, flower pots, flower cups, slag buckets, chrysanthemum plates, etc. also have different shapes.
Therefore, Chen Wenzhe can now imitate the chrysanthemum petal plate with blue glaze and the chrysanthemum petal plate with sky blue glaze. These are two more single-color glaze chrysanthemum petal plates.
Of course, it is not easy to imitate well.
The three types of blue-glazed porcelain from the Yongzheng period can be said to be unique.
Among them, Ji-blue glaze porcelain has a bright purple color, a very smooth glaze, very even glaze application, dense small bubbles under the glaze, and a strong glass texture.
The body of the blue-glazed porcelain is thinner than that of the Kangxi period, and the glaze color is similar to that of green gold. The glaze color is very changeable, but the only drawback is that the glaze surface is not uniform.
Sky blue glaze porcelain has different shades of glaze color, the tone is relatively light and the color is very stable.
There are also inscriptions on the blue-glazed porcelain from the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty. Most of the inscriptions on the blue-glazed porcelain are "Made in the Yongzheng Period of the Qing Dynasty" in blue and white double-circle regular script, or in seal script, or incised inscriptions, etc.
However, there are some exceptions for some artifacts, which are signed with the hall name "Langyin Pavilion System".
When making a chrysanthemum plate with blue glaze, you need to pay attention to the mixing of blue glaze, especially the blue glaze from the Yongzheng period.
Sprinkled blue glaze, also known as "snowflake blue", is a high-temperature blue glaze fired during the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty.
Because the blue glaze has uniform spots like water spots on the ground, it is called "sprinkled blue".
During the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, the glaze application method was innovative. It was necessary to first use the blowing method to blow the star-shaped green material on the porcelain blank, and then apply a layer of transparent glaze.
The glaze of this blue chrysanthemum petal plate is even and smooth, and the dense white spots on the blue glaze are like snowflakes dancing in the sky, which is exquisite and eye-catching.
Since manual glaze blowing requires a long period of experience, blue glaze products have always been very rare.
However, although this kind of porcelain is difficult to make, once it is made, it will be a fine product.
In particular, the chrysanthemum petal plate has a traditional and generous shape, is beautiful and steady, and if the glaze is evenly applied, the glaze surface is even and delicate, and the color is quiet, it will be an absolute masterpiece.
After finishing the blue glaze dish, Chen Wenzhe thought for a moment and simply raised the difficulty level again. This time he made a sauce-colored glaze dish.
This is a high-temperature glaze with iron as a colorant. It was first successfully fired in the northern kiln during the Song Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the Xuande official kiln produced many sauce-glazed plates, bowls and other daily necessities.
Yongzheng sauce glaze inherits the excellent tradition of Xuande sauce glaze, with thick glaze and bright color.
If you want to make the sauce glaze on the twelve-color chrysanthemum petal plate well, it must be smooth and glossy.
As long as you pay attention to this point, there will be no problems with the fired chrysanthemum plate.
"Boss, what's next?"
Seeing Chen Wenzhe making a lot of sauce-glazed porcelain, Zhang Gu was a little excited.
This time I really learned a lot. Even if they have not been fired at this time, I still don’t know the final color of these porcelains, but Chen Wenzhe’s previous performance is there, I can’t help but not believe it.
"Now that you've made purple gold glaze, let's go to the end and make another grape purple glaze plate. Have you seen it before?"
Purple has always been a noble color, and purple glaze is not an ordinary glaze color. There are certainly not many people who can make it well.
"No!" Zhang Gu shook his head directly. He had only heard of it and had never seen it before.
Not to mention him, even the teachers at his art school have not seen many top-quality grape purple glaze plates, right?
Among the twelve pure-color chrysanthemum petals of Yongzheng, there is a grape purple glaze dish, which is a kind of high-temperature purple glaze.
High-temperature purple glaze is a color glaze created in the mid-Ming Dynasty. The main colorant is manganese, and the minimal iron and cobalt contained in the glaze play a color-adjusting role.
There are many colors of Yongzheng purple glaze. The lightest purple glaze has a light pink color like lotus root. This is the lotus root glaze chrysanthemum petal plate among the twelve plates.
Also, the deepest purple glaze is as bright as eggplant skin, and those in between are rose purple and grape purple.
The grape purple glaze plate in the chrysanthemum petal plate is smooth and translucent, purple with red in it, similar to the red of kidney beans. It is a fine product among purple glazes and is very valuable.
This kind of glaze-colored chrysanthemum petal plate seems to be comparable only to the carmine red chrysanthemum petal plate.
In the market, Chen Wenzhe remembered that there seemed to be only one in 17 years.
That grape-purple glazed chrysanthemum petal dish, compared to the other colors, is considered a rarity, and it seems that is the only one being auctioned!
Therefore, the auction price at that time was set at 3 million to 5 million, which was not inferior at all to the carmine glaze chrysanthemum dish.
Apart from that one, it seems that only one is kept in the Palace Museum, the capital of China.
Among the set of twelve-color chrysanthemum petals, there is a grape purple glaze chrysanthemum petal plate.
The twelve plates in the Forbidden City are: white glaze, green glaze, lake glaze, onion green, yellow glaze, light yellow glaze, beige glaze, sky blue glaze, sprinkled blue glaze, rouge glaze, purple gold glaze, mint glaze.
Among them, the green glaze is the most abundant, so it is not considered an orthodox Yongzheng twelve-color single-color glaze chrysanthemum petal dish.
Of course, that means the Forbidden City has the strength to produce a twelve-color set of Yongzheng official kiln single-color glazed porcelain.
Except for the Forbidden City in Shendu, it would be great to be able to collect three or five pieces from other places.
As Chen Wenzhe knows, most museums and collectors only have one piece in their hands, let alone twelve.