The use of high-foot plates to serve food must be a later usage.
The high foot plate that first appeared was definitely a sacrificial vessel.
Because all good things in ancient times were a process from gods to humans.
After that, it is the process from nobles to common people.
By the Song Dynasty, the high-foot plate was already a common utensil fired in porcelain kilns in the north and south.
Judging from archaeological data, the Gao Zupan was first seen in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, in the third year of Tiantong in the Northern Qi Dynasty (567).
In the tombs at that time, celadon-glazed tall plates were unearthed.
At present, the porcelain kilns found to have fired high-foot plates in the Sui Dynasty include Jiabi Kiln in Beihe, Anyang Kiln and Gongyi Kiln in Nanhe Province, Huainan Kiln in Hui Province, Xiangyin Kiln in Nanhu Province, Qiong Kiln in Sichuan Province, etc.
The above-mentioned porcelain kiln mainly produces celadon-glazed high-legged plates. The glaze color is light green and transparent, and some black spots and impurities on the body can be seen.
The Gongyi kiln in Nanhe also produced three-color high-foot plates in the Tang Dynasty.
This kind of utensil was more popular in the Sui Dynasty and appeared in murals and paintings of the same era.
At present, no kiln sites of the Tang Dynasty have been found in Hui City. This Tang Gao foot plate was unearthed in Shitou Mountain in the urban area of Hui City in 1986. Because it is shallow and open, it should be a utensil for holding items.
Although it is a simple and unpretentious daily necessities, it also reflects the living environment of the Tang Dynasty from different aspects.
This also proves that the ancient residents living in this area had material circulation and trade with other places during the Tang Dynasty due to social development and daily needs.
Chen Wenzhe has ready-made craftsmanship for celadon-glazed stem plates and three-color stem plates, so it is not difficult to make them.
His celadon-glazed porcelain fired at the highest level, but his Tang Sancai technique was only average.
However, even with this average level, it will definitely reach the master level.
As more and more ancient porcelains are imitated, Chen Wenzhi learns more and more skills.
Just like now, with the extension of an artifact, he can almost make it casually as long as he can think of it.
The most troublesome part is selecting the mineral materials and mixing the glaze. As for the craftsmanship, it is not difficult at all for him.
Now, for him, the gold fixator is more troublesome.
Because the Ding kiln wares that use branch-ring overlay firing all have angular openings, these later need to be inlaid with gold and silver buckles.
There is nothing we can do about it, because as long as this process is used for firing, awns will inevitably appear.
However, if you want to bake high-quality products in a custom kiln, you must fire in a circle.
In this method of firing porcelain, the objects in the sagger are fixed by special annular rings.
Porcelain to be fired is also placed upside down.
It is precisely because of the covering that a circle of glaze must be cut off the edge of the utensil to expose the fetal bones, so that it can be placed on the supporting ring.
After the final firing, the utensils formed a "mangkou".
What needs to be mentioned here is that the branch ring covering and firing process is not just for expanding production.
Some of the large dishes and bowls made by Ding porcelain have walls as thin as clouds, but rarely deform. This must also be attributed to the new process of branch ring over-firing.
While the over-firing process expanded production, it also made the porcelain fired in Ding kiln more regular.
However, after all, the glaze on the edge of the utensil was lost, forming a "mang mouth".
Picky people think that this kind of rough "grain mouth" destroys the overall beauty of the utensil.
Liang Tongshu's "An Examination of the Archaeological Kilns of Ancient Bronze and Porcelain" records that Song Renzong, after seeing the tribute overfired Ding porcelain, issued an edict: "Dingzhou's white porcelain has awns and is unusable, so he ordered Ruzhou to build a green porcelain kiln."
In order to solve this defect, Ding kiln craftsmen inlaid metal edges on some lost glaze mouths and ring feet.
The most noble ones use gold and silver as the edges to make the utensils more elegant and luxurious. This technique is called gold and silver buckles.
The corresponding artifact is called "gold-mounted fixing device".
However, it is important to note here that the gold and silver buttoning process in Ding porcelain appeared much earlier than the overfiring process.
In other words, it is not because of the disadvantages of "Mangkou" that there are gold and silver buckles.
In fact, many gold-mounted fixers are upward-fired products, and their rims are glazed, rather than "glazed".
The white-glazed "official" style gold mouth plate of the Jingzhi Temple Underground Palace, and the white-glazed lotus pattern long-neck bottle with a silver cover and silver feet from the Jingzhongyuan Underground Palace are outstanding examples of this kind of "gold-mounted fixing vessels".
In other words, sometimes there is no mandrel, and a circle of gold and silver buttons can also be inlaid.
Of course, as long as it is Ding kiln porcelain that can enter the palace, it is definitely a treasure. Even if it is not decorated with gold, it is still very valuable.
However, Ding kiln porcelain with this layer of gold is definitely worth more.
Since it is a good thing, we must make more copies.
Porcelain such as bowls and plates is very simple to make. Now that the plates have been made, small plates are naturally indispensable.
It just so happened that the white-glazed "official" pair of cicada-pattern dishes unearthed from the Jingzhi Temple Underground Palace was similar to the previous plate, and it was also simple to make.
White glaze "official" style pair of cicada pattern dishes, diameter 12.4 cm, base diameter 8.5 cm.
It has an open mouth in the shape of a six-curved flower, a slightly bulging oblique belly, and a flat bottom.
The tire is extremely thin, only 0.2 cm.
The texture of the fetus is firm and fine, the glaze is white and shiny, with slight glaze yellow glaze marks, and the fetus is exposed on the outer bottom.
The inner bottom is neatly and delicately decorated with a pair of cicada patterns.
The outer bottom is engraved with the Chinese character "官" in running script, and the inscription "On May 22, the second year of Taiping Xingguo's reign (977), the relic was donated to the male disciple Wu Chengxun Qian Sanshi Zumo" written in 5 lines with 28 characters.
The dish imitates the shape of gold and silverware, and the mouth is unglazed.
The second year of Taiping and Xingguo was AD 977, and this year was not an easy one.
Taiping Xingguo (December 976-November 984) was the reign title of Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi, the second emperor of the Song Dynasty, which lasted for nearly 8 years.
Qian Chu, the Zhongyi King of Wu and Yue, also used this year number to date his year. His existence was from December 976 to May 978).
Here, because Wu Chengxun, a male disciple of the benefactor behind, Qian Sanshizumo, can prove that the reign name here is not that of the Song Dynasty, but that of the Wuyue Kingdom.
The Wuyue Kingdom of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms was known as: The land was thousands of miles away, and it carried hundreds of thousands of armors. It cast mountains and boiled seas, and was as rich as rhinoceros, pearls and jade, and its armor was the best in the world.
The country is even more famous as a producer of secret-color glazed porcelain, so the presence of Ding kiln porcelain here is certainly unusual.
However, this kind of thing is not just once.
For example, the tombs of Qian Kuan, father of Qian Liu, and Shui Qiu, the founder of Wuyue Kingdom, contain many pieces of Ding porcelain, which shows how precious they are.
Unearthed from Qian Kuan's tomb in Lin'an during the late Tang Dynasty was a Ding kiln white porcelain Begonia cup.
Unearthed from the tomb of the Shuiqiu family in Lin'an in the late Tang Dynasty was a white porcelain Yunlong handle cup with a "gold fixing device".
It can be seen from this that the reputation of Ding kiln wares at that time was far greater than that of other kilns.
And this must be because of its regular craftsmanship, beautiful shape, and ingenious decoration, which made it famous and famous all over the world.
It was because of the beauty of Ding kiln wares that porcelain kilns from all over the country imitated them. However, Ding kiln porcelain was still the thinnest, whitest and best!
For example, Jingzhen, which is well-known to us modern people, is still known as the porcelain capital, but at that time, it was only named "Nanding".