The general jar is named after its beaded top, which resembles a general's helmet.
Many of the shogun jars commonly seen do not have lids, so their value is greatly reduced.
The general jars we know now originated from the Jiajing and Wanli years of the Ming Dynasty, and were basically finalized during the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, and were most popular during the Kangxi period.
This was also the age of many shogun jars,
The reason is that they all date back to the Kangxi period.
This kind of jar has a straight mouth, broad shoulders, narrow belly, a flat sand bottom, and a high round lid with a bead top.
The most common ones are blue and white flower and bird general jars, and there are also five-color jars. In addition, there are yellow glazes, eggplant skin purple glazes, three-color jars, etc.
The general jars we know now are blue and white, five-color, doucai and enamel. These precious porcelains are
It has become a viewer rather than a practical tool.
If it is still a practical device, it can only be used as an urn. Isn’t it very subversive to people’s outlook on life?
Who would have thought that the popular general jar might actually be a ghost artifact, something similar to an urn.
In fact, there is no need to be afraid, because the world likes the general jar, so for a long time afterwards, the purpose of the general jar gradually evolved into a viewing device.
During the Han Dynasty, some people said that the General Jar was a prize similar to today's trophy specially made by the Holy Emperor for the general who returned to the court in victory.
However, until the Ming Dynasty, the official kilns of the Ming Dynasty specialized in making general jars and supplied them to the court as gifts to generals, and the gifts given by civil servants were mainly the Four Treasures of the Study.
During the Qing Dynasty,
Ordinary officials in Kyoto use it to hold gold, silver, soft goods and favorite things.
Officials and Buddhist believers used it to store Buddhist beads, etc.
In the past, there was also a superstitious saying that the Jiangjun Jar would bring official luck, wealth, good luck and peace. This was also an important reason for the popularity of the Jiangjun Jar.
In addition to the general jar, other famous weapons can also exceed your expectations.
For example, stoves, polygonal bottles, multi-tube bottles, refuge bottles, lotus statues, etc. were all very common in ancient times.
Of course, the closer they are to us, the less common they are, but they all have the same purpose.
This was an accident, and Chen Wenzhi accidentally gained some knowledge that is not commonly used.
It turned out that he had made multi-tube bottles and polygonal bottles, but he really didn't expect that these could also be used as urns.
Therefore, in the antique market, not all antiques can be collected.
Chen Wenzhe shook his head, no longer thinking about these ghost weapons.
In fact, if you think about it, if he wanted to sort out the production and development of various glaze colors from ancient times to the present,
There is really no way to avoid the underworld weapon.
If you can't avoid it, then don't avoid it.
Therefore, Tang Sancai can be made openly, and the first thing to make is the Tang Sancai General Jar!
After that, you can also make some pastel, multicolored, or even sky-shaped jars.
The Tianzi Jar is a treasure of Chinese ceramic art. This kind of jar comes in various sizes. The big one is like a wine jar, with a wide mouth, a short neck, round shoulders, a narrow belly, and a large bottom. The word "天" is written on the bottom with cobalt material.
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The body of the vessel is painted with landscape patterns, which is vivid and of the highest quality during the Ming Dynasty.
The Tianzi jar is the most famous type of Chenghua doucai. A Tianzi jar is written on the bottom of the jar as the base payment.
In the clearance documents, it is written as "Cheng Kiln Tianzi Jar". Tianzi Jar is the porcelain used by the imperial family.
Why is the bottom of the Tianzi jar written with the word Tian? There are many guesses.
Generally speaking, it is still based on the way documents were organized in the past. According to the opening line of "The Thousand Character Classic", it is "The sky and the earth are black and yellow, and the universe is primitive."
That’s why we often say “the number one in heaven”.
Tianzi jars have always been synonymous with sky-high prices, and if you can make the shape of a general jar, then making Tianzi jars is not difficult at all.
As for Doucai, Chen Wenzhe has now studied it very clearly. If he can make a Doucai chicken cup, he can also make a Huatian jar.
Of course, now I still make Tang Sancai first.
Tang Sancai is pottery, which is easier to fire than porcelain, so the difficulty lies in the various strange shapes and glaze colors.
This is a low-temperature glazed pottery popular in the Tang Dynasty. The glaze colors include yellow, green, white, brown, blue, black and other colors.
The three main colors are yellow, green and white, so people are accustomed to calling it "Tang Sancai".
Chen Wenzhe has studied the glaze color very clearly. If we don’t talk about green, let’s talk about yellow and white. Chen Wenzhe’s work is definitely not bad.
Therefore, the only difficulty in making Tang Sancai is the shaping of the vessel.
In fact, strictly speaking, Tang Sancai can be regarded as painted sculpture, and Chen Wenzhe is also very good at this.
He had learned the clay figurine Zhang's techniques and was also good at sculpting. He also learned the sculpting techniques of He Chaozong.
All this combined made Chen Wenzhe's process of making Tang Sancai extremely smooth.
The only limitation for him now is that there are too many types of Tang Sancai pots and they are too complicated. It is really difficult for him to imitate them all.
There are many types of vessels, various glaze colors, and strong characteristics of the era. These are the three difficulties that Chen Wenzhe summarized.
Let’s talk about glaze color first. Tang Sancai is a general term for pottery excavated from Tang tombs. Later, scholars regarded it as a term for ceramic classification.
Although Tang Sancai is called Sancai, it does not specifically refer to those three colors.
Among the various types of pottery figurines, pottery statues, and other pottery excavated from Tang tombs, some have only one color or two colors, and there are many objects, but they have more complex and colorful colors.
Generally speaking, in addition to the white ground of the carcass, the three colors of lead, yellow, green and cyan are the most common.
The mixing techniques of tricolor are also the most artistic.
As for the types of vessels, there are fewer Tang Sancai vessels, but there are more ponies, small livestock, and small poultry.
They all have rich artistic conception, especially the pottery figurines of various figures and supernatural figures, which have the most artistic value.
The three-color ware reflects the various utensils used in practical life in the Tang Dynasty, and among these utensils, the form of social life at that time was fully presented.
From this we can learn that the shape and quantity of the burial vessels and other objects were determined according to the official rank and family status of the person buried during his lifetime.
For example, among the Ming Dynasty ritual utensils in the Tang Dynasty, there are ninety things for the third grade and above, sixty things for the fifth grade and above, and forty things for the ninth grade and above.
The horse puppets are one foot tall, and the other music groups, servants, and other figures are also determined by their rank in life.
At the end of the early Tang Dynasty, the trend of lavish burials began to flourish.
From the prosperous Tang Dynasty to the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the trend of lavish burials became even more prevalent.
They carried Ming vessels through the streets, displayed at the tombs, played songs, dances, and music, stretched curtains, set up beds, made flowers and human figures, and offered food and drink to passers-by, almost like offering sacrifices.
Regardless of its shape and color application, Tang Sancai has extremely high artistic craftsmanship, which attracted the attention of people from all over Europe and the United States, and purchased them at high prices. From then on, Tang Sancai was included as part of the world's art.
To sum up, the commonly unearthed Tang Sancai pottery includes Sancai horses, camels, ladies, musical figurines, pillows, etc.
Especially the three-colored camels, carrying silk or a band on their backs, raising their heads and neighing.
Such lifelike pottery sculptures were rare before the Tang Dynasty.