A pagoda is a sacred temple that enshrines the bones of the Buddha. There are many underground palaces beneath it. The underground palace is a mysterious place where funerary objects are stored.
This kind of Ding kiln (including other kiln mouth) objects is extremely rare.
Based on this, it can be inferred that this porcelain sedan should also belong to the underworld and was specially burned for burial.
This white-glazed brown sedan uses various decorative techniques such as molding, pasting, hollowing out, stamping, engraving, and stippling.
It is a more complex type of inlaid ware. Inlaid ware is a type that is different from cut ware and round ware.
Every time he sees this porcelain sedan, Chen Wenzhe can't help but marvel at the ingenuity of the Ding kiln craftsmen.
They have brought the art of earth and fire to the extreme.
As long as they can express it with porcelain, they can do anything. This Ding kiln artifact is an example.
The most important thing is that it truly reproduces the image of a four-person sedan chair in the Northern Song Dynasty. It is a rare fine product among Ding kiln bionic porcelain.
To make such a piece of porcelain, it is necessary to use techniques such as kneading, stacking, hollowing, stamping, engraving, and stippling.
As long as any of the craftsmanship here is slightly substandard, it will never be possible to produce such a fine piece of porcelain.
It can be said that this porcelain has fully reflected the characteristics of Ding kiln.
The texture of the fetus is thin and light, the color of the fetus is white and slightly yellow, firm and opaque, the glaze is extremely thin, and the color of the glaze is moist and bright.
The fetus can be seen. The fetus is hard and fine, with a high degree of porcelain, even to the point of being semi-embodied.
As long as porcelain of this level like Ding kiln porcelain sedan can be copied successfully, Chen Wenzhe's Ding kiln imitation technology will reach the pinnacle level.
After that, by imitating some porcelain with simple shapes, you can achieve a state of exquisiteness without craftsmanship.
Therefore, after just completing the production of three porcelain sedans, Chen Wenzhe couldn't help but want to try his craftsmanship.
He felt that this time his technology had made another huge breakthrough.
“Just make a thin porcelain bowl!”
A lot of porcelain has been unearthed from the underground palace of Jingzhiji Temple, after all, there are more than 100 pieces!
These porcelains were donated by dignitaries at that time or directly from the royal family.
Therefore, even the bowls and plates are of royal porcelain grade.
With such a batch of treasures as specimens, Chen Wenzhe quickly came up with a plan.
He had made thin-bodied porcelain before, and now he wanted to see if he could make better thin-bodied porcelain from Ding kiln.
Some bowls, plates and other utensils in Ding kiln are extremely thin.
Even a large plate with a diameter of 30 cm has a thickness of only 2 to 4 mm.
The thinnest part of the white-glazed trumpet-mouthed bowl unearthed from the Jingzhi Temple Underground Palace is only 1 mm.
There is also a white glaze "official" bowl with lotus pattern, the lip thickness is less than 2 mm.
It welcomes light and the lotus petal pattern on the outer wall can be seen through, and the sound of knocking is soft and sweet.
This fully reflects the characteristics of Ding porcelain, which is "as white as jade, as thin as paper, and as loud as a chime", which is breathtaking.
I have made a bell-mouthed bowl before, but this time I will make a bowl engraved with the official Chinese characters of Lotus.
It's not difficult to simply imitate a bowl. The main thing is the change of glaze color.
If it is white glaze, everything is easy to say, just follow the normal procedures.
If it is a kiln change, you need to pay attention to the temperature. In the end, it is just a choice of two glaze colors.
As long as you control the kiln temperature and what kind of glaze color you want, you can fire what kind of porcelain you want.
Chen Wenzhe makes too many dishes.
At this time, as long as he used appropriate materials and followed the characteristics of Ding kiln in the Song Dynasty, he could make various porcelains as he pleased.
It can be said that if you pick it up casually, there will be no lag at all.
I made a bowl and a serving cup.
Every piece of porcelain he sells here, no matter whether the shape is simple or not, has a great origin, or it can be said that it is a fine product.
For example, this cup was also unearthed from the underground palace of Jingzhi Temple.
This is a white-glazed Northern Song Dynasty "guan" style fancy mouth-cup cup, which matches this bowl with the "refining official" style.
Since the cup is made, it is only natural that it should have only one plate.
What is the difference between a cup and a plate? There is almost no difference, but the shape of the vessel is slightly different and the function is different, so there are two names.
This time he used the scratching technique, and the pattern he carved was very rare. The pattern Chen Wenzhe carved this time was the butterfly pattern, which he did not often use.
The white glaze plate with butterfly pattern is also a flower mouth plate with the "official" character in the Northern Song Dynasty.
The diameter of this plate is 10.5 cm, the full diameter is 5.7 cm, and the height is 2.7 cm.
Mangkou has hairy feet and a flat bottom.
The mouth wall is in the shape of a five-curved flower, and the inner bottom is also decorated with a pattern of two cicadas with wings spread opposite each other, with short round feet, and the Chinese character "官" in running script.
Because it is grilled, it has a mango mouth. If this plate is to be used as a tribute, it must be decorated.
Therefore, this is an authentic Jingzhi Temple underground palace white glaze "official" style gold mouth plate.
After finishing this piece, Chen Wenzhe looked at the plate in trance. In fact, he was thinking of another kind of plate.
Among Ding kiln wares, there is another kind of plate, which is the high-foot plate.
A white glaze flower-mouthed tall plate was unearthed from the underground palace of Jingzhi Temple. This kind of white-glazed flower-mouthed tall plate has a diameter of 14.7 cm, a bottom diameter of 9.7 cm, and a height of 10 cm.
There are tear marks on the outside, the plate has a five-curved cusp-shaped mouth, and the oblique belly has five lotus flowers on the interior.
The tall legs are in the shape of a bowl, the inner wall is unglazed, decorated with string patterns, and the glaze supports the plate.
It should be noted here that this kind of high foot plate appeared in the Song Dynasty, not the Yuan Dynasty.
Many people in modern times say that goblets and plates are used by ethnic minorities, such as the Mongolians in the Yuan Dynasty, for drinking, so this type of vessel was invented.
In fact, this statement is wrong. Maybe the goblet and other things became popular in the Yuan Dynasty, but the goblet and the goblet appeared very early.
What I just talked about was the high-foot plate from the Ding kiln in the Song Dynasty. In fact, this kind of porcelain was also unearthed in the Tang Dynasty.
For example, there is a high-foot plate in the Huishi Museum collection, with an overall height of 12.4 cm, a diameter of 14.9 cm, and a foot height of 9.5 cm.
This high foot plate is composed of two parts: the foot and the plate. The plate is open and slightly defective. It has a curved wall and a thin bottom. It is supported by a trumpet-shaped hollow high foot. The end of the foot is slightly rolled out and carved with two groups of double string patterns.
The plate is shallow, and there are traces of nail blocks left by stacked burning of other utensils. There is a concave single-line string pattern printed on the inside, and the carcass is light yellow.
There are still some ice cracks on the curved belly, and most of the rest of the glaze has fallen off.
Experts on cultural relics identified it as a high-foot plate from the Tang Dynasty, and it was designated as a national third-level cultural relic.
There are many records about the pan in ancient times. For example, Sima Qian of the Han Dynasty's "Historical Records: Biography of Yu Qing, Prince of Pingyuan" records that "Mao Sui presented the copper plate and knelt down to the King of Chu."
"Book of Rites·Mourning Records" has a record of "using earthenware pans for bathing".
Li Shen of the Tang Dynasty wrote in "Compassion for the Farmers" that "Who knew that every grain of food on the plate was hard work" and so on.
It can be seen from this that the plate was a common utensil for washing or holding items in ancient times, at least among the nobles.
Although plates are different from stem plates, they are used in the same way, to hold things.
For example, when placing food, a flat plate and a tall plate can be matched with each other, so that more food can be placed on a table of the same size.