Ear cups, Tang Ou cups, Song cups, Yuan Dynasty stem cups, Ming Dynasty hand cups, Qing Dynasty covered bowls, these are the unique characteristics of each era.
But now, these are our traditional cultures and can be inherited by us.
Therefore, various kinds of glass cups have entered our lives.
Chen Wenzhe has seen contemporary high-quality glasses before.
They are packaged into crystal cups, turning them into luxury goods.
Moreover, it is a luxury item that many ordinary people cannot afford.
As for ordinary teacups, contemporary people’s standards are also very simple. They just need to be clean and transparent to facilitate observation of the state of the tea.
There is nothing more suitable than a glass cup. It is clean, thorough, practical and beautiful. The smooth surface is easy to clean and it is not easy to leave tea residue and dirt.
Moreover, it has a low burning cost and is affordable to most people.
Glass cups are the most commonly used tea cups by the general public.
And Chen Wenzhe happens to have the best technology. If he wants, he can even get the top-notch production technology of a large number of glasses.
Of course, the technology he has obtained now is enough for his craftsmen to digest.
No matter how the glass they make is blown, in Chen Wenzhe's opinion, it will look just like that.
Teacups come in all shapes and sizes. In contemporary times, we can use teacups, tall cups, or covered bowls to sip tea, enriching our leisure life.
However, compared to some famous brand tea cups, others are just dregs.
"These are the ten most expensive teacups in auction history!"
Chen Wenzhe glanced at Chen Xingchen, he was really big-hearted.
Top-quality teacups that can leave their names in the history of auctions. A single teacup can sell for a sky-high price. How can they be simple?
The 10 most expensive classic tea sets in auction history, the most expensive one sold for HK$280 million.
If everyone knows this one, then probably very few people know about the others.
For example, No. 10, this is a blue and white tea cup and its holder.
This is a classic vessel of the tea culture of the Song Dynasty. The work is well preserved as a whole. The glaze is bright, white and green, the body is white and hard, and the color is elegant and elegant.
High-quality Yingqing, not to mention preserved from the Song Dynasty, even if it is a modern work, the price is not low.
Previously in South Vietnam, Chen Wenzhe had imitated celadon, especially Ru kiln celadon.
Therefore, he also has a lot of research on the predecessor of Ru kiln, or the predecessor shadow celadon.
Shadow Celadon, also known as Ying Celadon, is a treasure in traditional Chinese porcelain making technology.
Its predecessor is blue and white porcelain. Shadow celadon, known as "white and blue", was originally created by Jingzhen in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Its glaze color is bluish white and elegant, the glaze surface is clear and clean, the body texture is firm and greasy white, and the color is as warm and moist as jade, so it was known as "fake jade" in history.
"Yingqing" is the common name for the unique style of porcelain fired in Jingzhen during the Song Dynasty.
Because its glaze color is between blue and white, with white in the blue and flashes of green in the white, it is called shadow green.
In addition, the porcelain body is extremely thin, and the carved patterns can be seen both inside and outside when exposed to light, so it is called "shadow blue".
The glaze color of "Ying Qing" is mainly divided into two categories. One is white with a flash of cyan, and the thicker part flashes with dark green, which is smooth and fine, bright and clear.
The ancients called it "fake jade" for a reason, because its glaze color is as crystal clear as jade.
The second is blanched green and flashing yellow. This kind of glaze color "shadow blue" porcelain is the most abundant.
In addition, in the "Shadow Green" glaze, there is also a kind of brown color that is painted around the utensils, which is called "stippling".
In the Song Dynasty, the position of pointillism was random and natural, and the area was often small. The colors had very obvious differences in density, with the center being the thickest and showing an iron spot color.
It is because of these advantages that this little-known ancient porcelain is sold at a high price.
You know, this is just a tea cup, the smallest utensil among porcelain.
Any such small device that can be sold for millions of dollars is the best of the best.
Whether it's blue or white
Whether it is porcelain, shadow celadon or the top-notch Ru kiln celadon, Chen Wenzhe has on-site skills.
Now his research results have become finished products and are presented before his eyes.
Chen Xingchen summoned experts to learn and copy the technology he provided.
It is also for this reason that Chen Xingchen was able to gather a large number of high-level craftsmen within two or three years.
Otherwise, Yi Niantang Ceramics Factory would not have been able to develop so fast.
Chen Wenzhe looked at the workshop here, which produced celadon and celadon-white porcelain.
They didn’t imitate the Ru kiln porcelain, but it seems they still know the depth of their own skills!
However, the blue and white porcelain and shadow celadon they imitated are already very extraordinary.
"This is a jade pillow? There are jade pillows made of blue and white porcelain. There are some in the style of the Song Dynasty, and there are also some in the Yuan Dynasty style?"
Li Qingzhao of the Southern Song Dynasty wrote the sentence "jade pillow gauze cook" in "Drunken Flower Yin", and jade pillow refers to the blue and white porcelain pillow.
Some of the blue and white porcelain products of the Yuan Dynasty were printed with the inscriptions "Jade came out of Kunshan" and "Jade came out of Kungang".
During the Southern Song Dynasty, they were mass-produced and "traveled throughout the country", making them a hot commodity in the market.
Don't think that mass production means ordinary goods.
You want to know, why does Ying Qing have the word "shadow" in his name?
It’s because it’s thin and delicate!
Most of the shadow celadon at that time had thinly carved transparent flying phoenix and other patterns.
These patterns are carved on the body by highly skilled ceramic artists and then fired with transparent green glaze at high temperatures.
With the technology provided by Chen Wenzhe, these craftsmen's imitation is quite professional.
At least in addition to imitating the blue and white porcelain from Jingzhen, there are others fired from the Hutian kiln.
As for blue and white porcelain, in addition to Jingzhen, Hutian kiln is the most famous, followed by Xianghu, Shengmeiting, Liujiawan and other kilns.
The varieties at that time included bowls, plates, bottles, jars and other daily utensils.
The blue and white porcelain of the early Northern Song Dynasty had no patterns and was distinguished by its regular shape and jade-like glaze.
After the middle period, its decoration was mainly carved, with printing, shallow relief, hollowing, and piled sculptures.
The elegant and elegant blue and white porcelain has flowers hidden in the glaze, which are bright and dark, giving it endless charm.
Blue and white porcelain was once all the rage and was sold at home and abroad.
According to the Song Dynasty's "Tokyo Menghua Lu", there were shops specializing in selling white porcelain in Bianliang and Lin'an in Kyoto at that time.
The shop sells utensils for people in the capital to eat, drink tea and drink in their daily lives.
Zhao Rushi recorded the situation of my country's foreign trade of ceramics at that time in "Zhufan Zhi", including records of merchants in "Po" and other places using blue and white porcelain for trade.
Wang Dayuan also recorded the foreign trade of porcelain in "Dao Yi Zhi Lue".
The blue and white porcelain of jdz in the Song Dynasty developed from translucent glaze to translucent body. This was a leap in the history of the development of porcelain in my country.
Due to the rich experience in making blue and white porcelain, it laid the foundation for the emergence and development of blue and white porcelain in the future.
If we talk about innovation, it was after the founding of New China.
At that time, Jingzhen Shadow Celadon was developing rapidly. The blue and white Shadow Celadon created in 1983 caused a sensation in the porcelain world and aroused great interest from domestic and foreign merchants.