Chapter 1,145: There is no way out after the mountains and rivers return to doubt
Innovation, really not everyone can do it.
When the lamp was fired, so many beautiful colors appeared. The most important thing is that no one had ever fired it before, which is even more valuable.
The pictures Chen Wenzhe saw at this time were all from a showroom called Zhang Huifeng Studio.
There are various kinds of Yaobian Tianmu glaze works displayed here. The only feature they have in common is that
It’s just like a dream!
This master named Zhang Huifeng is really not simple.
Born into a family of ceramics, Zhang Huifeng has a keen interest in Yaobian Tianmu glaze.
He inherited his father's business and founded the Yuchun Porcelain Art Research Laboratory with his wife Shi Yanhua.
After that, together with his retired father, he devoted himself to the in-depth research and development of Yaobian Tenmu glaze firing technology.
However, the occurrence of obsidian change is restricted by many factors such as the base, glaze, and kiln temperature.
The beautiful patterns are fleeting during the firing process, and the success rate of the work is extremely low.
It can be said that every work is unique.
Until now, no one dares to say that they have successfully developed Yaobian Tianmu glaze. They can only say that the work has its basic characteristics.
At this time, Chen Wenzhe became somewhat surprised.
He discovered that Master Zhang had studied the Yao Bianzhan earlier than Master Lu.
As early as 2002, Master Zhang not only overcame the defects of the original Yaobian Tianmu glaze firing technology, such as uneven glaze flow, serious staining, and poor brightness, but also greatly improved the firing efficiency.
Later, based on this foundation, he extended his research tentacles to the development of a series of obsidian glazed porcelain products.
He broadened the scope of research and development, focused on exploring the flare, crystal shape, and glaze pattern generation principles of obsidian glazed porcelain, and innovatively developed new obsidian glazes such as gold stars, rust flowers, and underglaze lines.
These are the exquisite porcelain that Chen Wenzhe saw before.
It can no longer be represented by simple black glazed porcelain, this is the real innovation.
This is also the reason why Chen Wenzhe feels that Master Zhang has already succeeded in turning the sun into a celestial eye lamp.
Originally, he thought that he had thoroughly researched the obsidian changes and could innovate on this basis.
Unexpectedly, the predecessors were already ahead,
All the roads he thought of were cleared, leaving him with no other way to go.
"There is no other way but to learn."
Chen Wenzhe was a little frustrated. He finally discovered a new field. Unexpectedly, someone had already developed it thoroughly.
Looking at the exquisite porcelain pieces, especially the unique glaze colors, made Chen Wenzhe a little envious.
A fine product cannot be separated from a piece of ingenuity.
Every piece of porcelain here is strictly controlled in the main steps such as shaping, trimming, glazing, drying, and firing, and no slack is allowed.
The firing of Yaobian Tianmu glaze requires the support of knowledge in physics, chemistry and other aspects.
These porcelains were successfully fired only after several experiments.
First of all, scientifically formulated raw materials were formulated, and the innovative characteristics of seriation and differentiation of multiple homogeneous and different crystals of Yaobian Tianmu glaze were explored.
Once you have mastered the changing laws of crystal shape changes, surface tension, and glaze expansion, you will be able to apply glazes according to your needs, so that you can become more skillful.
In recent years, Master Zhang has successively developed a series of obsidian-variable glaze porcelain such as red obsidian Tianmu glaze, sunflower yellow glaze, gold wire glaze, Venus glaze, pearl blue glaze, tiger eye glaze, and lychee glaze;
During this process, we also innovatively developed, on a porcelain blank,
Applying more than two kinds of glazes creates a series of underglaze pattern artistic porcelain.
He also combined Shantang's unique bone china with Yaobian Tianmu glaze, and began to develop a new type of bone china Yaobian glazed porcelain.
His works are a blend of ancient and modern, with natural charm, elegance and unique style.
Yaobian Glaze has infinite possibilities, and there is still a lot of content at this time that needs to be developed by future generations.
Therefore, Chen Wenzhe’s many ideas need to be studied and implemented.
Those masters in their 60s and 70s have more ideas, and they are all working hard to innovate.
It is these masters who are constantly presenting us with more and more amazing works.
Therefore, after learning the existing technologies, Chen Wenzhe no longer wants to take advantage of these masters.
It would be unworthy of him to block the innovative path of these masters after he has learned top-level skills!
"I'll just change the direction. I can't hang myself from a tree!"
This time Chen Wenzhe drew an analogy. With just one jianzhan, so many tricks can be played, but what about other porcelains?
For example, can we make some fuss about the eggshell porcelain before it was fired?
Mountain darkly, vista.
As long as we change the type of porcelain, can we innovate again?
The Liuxia lamp is considered to be a thin-bodied porcelain. Can the Jian kiln's Jianzhan be also made into thin-bodied porcelain?
Who stipulates that rabbit hair lamps must be black-glazed porcelain? Among other glaze colors, will there also be colorful and delicate glaze colors?
Liu Xiazhan is a role model, so no wonder Chen Wenzhe has wild thoughts!
Can all kinds of thin tires still have radioactive rabbit hairs and oil droplets?
Or simply have flares like rice leaves, eyeballs, and stars?
You can experiment with all of these, but the easiest one to make is probably the Easter Eggshell Cup, right?
He has wanted to do this for a long time, and he still uses the best craftsmanship, because Doucai must use more glazes.
Therefore, while he was firing Jianzhan, Liuxiazhan, eggshell pottery, and thin-bodied porcelain, he was also firing Doucai.
Recently, he has gained a deeper understanding of glaze colors, and he feels that firing doucai has become much easier for him.
"Let's make a dou-colored eggshell cup first, but it needs to be a bit more unique, or else make it a Tianzi style porcelain?"
In just a moment, Chen Wenzhe thought of the Doucai Tianzi eggshell cup. This was just a result of making the Doucai eggshell cup and leaving a Tianzi symbol.
In this process, we can actually learn from some other porcelains, such as the Chenghua sweet white glaze thin body cup with dark engraved dragon and phoenix patterns.
Let’s not talk about sweet white glaze. This kind of glaze color is not easy to color. If you want to bake egg white glaze, you must study carefully. After all, it is also a big treasure category.
At this time, eggshell porcelain was being made, and it was made of doucai, so it must have been based on the secret carving process.
If the dragon and phoenix patterns are painted with Dou Cai, the effect will definitely be better.
However, when firing, it must be fired in the kiln multiple times, because many different colored glazes cannot be fired successfully at one time.
Not to mention other things, it is just a blue and white glaze and a copper red glaze, which generally cannot be fired together.
If you are not afraid of the trouble and can be fired in one go, this will be blue and white with underglaze red.
While I was thinking wildly, I was designing and finalizing.
His random thoughts can soon be turned into designs for pieces of porcelain, and as long as he has time, he can realize them.
In this way, Chen Wenzhe is busy every day.
On this day, the firing of Jianzhan was completed, and a large number of eggshell cups were also fired.
Suddenly, Chen Wenzhe discovered that the many small firewood kilns he had built began to go empty.
"If nothing goes wrong, just bake the last piece of Chinese red porcelain?"