The bile bottle is said to be derived from the water bottle commonly used by Buddhists, so some people call it the Guanyin bottle. Modern scholars named it the bile bottle because of its shape like a hanging gall bladder.
Bile bottles generally have straight mouths, long and slender necks, and tapered shoulders.
It becomes larger and larger below the shoulders, and plump in the lower abdomen, forming a flower vessel.
Burning began in the Tang Dynasty to the middle and late Qing Dynasty, and became popular in the Song Dynasty.
Due to its elegant and graceful shape, this kind of bottle gave people an extraordinary and infinite appeal. It was sought after by all walks of life at that time and was a classic among ceramic types.
Only two Ru kiln gall vases from the Song Dynasty are known to have been handed down from generation to generation, and they are collected in the Wanwan Palace Museum and the David David National Art Museum in England.
This Northern Song Dynasty Ru Kiln celadon vase in the Palace Museum was originally collected by the Qing Palace.
Its mouth rim and bottom foot are respectively inlaid with gilt copper inlaid buckles.
A circle of the glaze layer in the center of the bottom surface has been removed and coated with brown ink, leaving the yellow porcelain body in the center faintly exposed.
There are no so-called sesame nail burning marks on this piece of Ru kiln porcelain. It was probably fired upside down. This can be seen from the copper buckle on the edge of the mouth.
Although the body of such porcelain is slightly flawed, it is still a fine product among Ru kiln porcelain.
Such bottles naturally have a long history.
As early as the Song Dynasty, bile bottles were introduced into Buddhist halls and rooms and became an otherworldly spiritual object in a pure place;
Frustrated literati in the Yuan Dynasty took pleasure in traveling and meditating, and the solitary flowers in the vase were especially popular among the gentry;
In the Ming Dynasty, the class of scholar-bureaucrats was growing day by day, and the meaning of the bile bottle was alienated by utilitarianism, and became a symbol of noble interests and status for the new and wealthy officials;
In the Qing Dynasty, social changes accelerated and the commodity economy developed. Bile bottles were decorated with gold and colored, attached with ears and rings, and became a plaything for worldly pleasures.
Bile bottles are not only loved by literati,
It is also valued by monks and believers.
The soft-lined water purification bottle used in Buddhist activities,
As it was assimilated with Chinese culture, it gradually transformed into a simple-looking bile bottle and became a classic utensil in Buddhist ritual scenes.
The bulging belly of the bile bottle, which has remained unchanged for thousands of years, carries not only water, air and nothingness, but also the heavy history, culture and the value concept of harmony between heaven and man.
It is because of this that the bile vase has become one of the top ten classic porcelain vases inherited in China.
Chen Wenzhe could think of him not just because of this, but because he thought of too many classic gall bottles through the Ru kiln celadon gall bottles.
For example, the black pottery hollow bile bottle is a rare black glazed pottery.
The Longshan Culture is a cultural relic mainly characterized by black pottery. Subsequently, cultural relics equivalent to the Longshan Culture era, mainly gray pottery and black pottery, were discovered in various places.
These cultural relics belonging to different cultural systems are named various types of Longshan Culture.
The main divisions are in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, so the black pottery culture is an important part of Chinese culture and one of the earliest human civilizations of the Chinese nation!
Since then, there have been many kiln entrances in history, all of which mainly fired black glaze wares, with a small amount of tea leaves.
For example, Tongda Kiln not only produces black glaze utensils, but also
The string-patterned bottles and carved jars fired from Tongda Kiln are representative, with rough carved lines and thin scratched lines, with water ripples and fish patterns, the black glaze is black and shiny, and the surface of the tea powder glaze is matte.
Others include the Hunyuan Kiln, which was built in the Tang Dynasty and fired white glaze, black brown glaze, tea powder glaze and other varieties.
During the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, the kiln factory expanded and the varieties increased, including black glaze with flowers, white glaze with flowers and scratches, plates, bowls, basins, jars, pillows and other utensils.
Black glaze engraving is the most exquisite in the Yanbei area, and tooth white glaze engraving is also rare in other areas of Shanxi.
There are many famous kilns that fire black glaze, and even more of them are good ones, but not many of them have been preserved.
Among the bile bottles that have been passed down to the present, there are some classic ones, such as the simplest Qianlong blue and white bile vase with intertwining branches and floral patterns.
This kind of vessel has a neat and beautiful shape, a delicate body, and a moist enamel.
The whole vessel is themed with entwining flower patterns, supplemented by sea water wave patterns, deformed flower patterns, wishful cloud head patterns, lotus petal patterns and curly grass patterns. The layout is well-densified and magnificent.
The blue and white flowers are bright in color and the painting is smooth and precise. They were used as a fine display for the Qianlong Dynasty's court and are rarely handed down from generation to generation.
It is so rare that even if Chen Wenzhe wanted to collect it, he would definitely not be able to buy it.
This is not something one can move to if he has money, so he can only rely on technology to do it.
After preparing the materials, we directly made a vase and applied the blue and white glaze, and we got a Qianlong blue and white vase with intertwining branches and floral patterns.
The Qianlong blue and white glaze was no problem for him, and he didn't know how many intertwining flower patterns he had made, so naturally it was no problem. As for the shape of the bile vase, it was just like a jade pot, spring vase, appreciation vase, etc.
It looks like it’s not difficult to do.
He can even directly use drawing technology to form the shape in one go.
But this is too troublesome, so it is better to use tire splicing technology and make it in sections.
No matter which method is used, it is not difficult to make a bile bottle embryo.
After making a large number of pottery embryos, it was natural to use them. At this time, various glazes came into play again.
Therefore, Chen Wenzhe then increased the difficulty a little bit and imitated a Qingfeng piercing flower amphora.
This is a glazed bottle with two ears.
Compared with ordinary bile bottles, the shape of the vessel is slightly more complicated, that is, the decoration is more complicated, and there are two more ears.
Making such porcelain is just a little trial on Chen Wenzhe's journey of innovation and change.
Chen Wenzhe has been imitating porcelain to this point. What he pursues is no longer high imitation or precise imitation, but innovation.
However, porcelain manufacturers throughout the ages have walked all the roads. It is really difficult for them to innovate and find their own way.
Therefore, in modern times, many porcelain craftsmen fell into a strange circle when they innovated in the shape of the porcelain.
If you can't create a new device, you'll have to do it in a new way, or even make it very weird.
There is no need to think about practical utensils. The ancients made all usable porcelain.
And the porcelain you can create, even the ornamental vessels, must require monsters.
Normal and more serious innovative porcelain, you don’t have to think about it at all.
In terms of life, appreciation, and even enjoyment, it cannot be said that modern people are more pursuing than the ancients.
Therefore, if we want to innovate now, we can only think of ways to improve the craftsmanship or glaze color.
We can only make some modern items that were not available in ancient times, such as mobile phone cases.
Some major mobile phone manufacturers have already tried this, and they are making high-end porcelain mobile phones.
For example, blue and white porcelain, enamel, underglaze red, etc. If these are made into mobile phone cases, they will really be luxury goods.
Innovation is not that easy, so now Chen Wenzhe can only do it tentatively.
He could only do it step by step and slowly.
Therefore, now he is thinking divergently and doing whatever comes to mind. If he can improve a little bit on the basis of these, it will be very good.
At this time, when he was making a bile bottle, he was naturally not just making this type of vessel.
He wanted to improve some of his ideas through a classic porcelain bottle type. What if suddenly there were new and good ideas?