If you want to make a good piece of Chenghua porcelain, the last point is the initial payment. There is no need to say more about this.
You will naturally understand it after seeing it too much. It is difficult for modern people to imitate it.
Because the Chenghua base model looks simple, but is actually upright and powerful.
If you are not a professional, you must not copy it.
Chenghua porcelain is unique for its light and elegant style, pursuing simplicity and elegance, paying special attention to the beauty of lines.
There is a saying in the collecting community that "the Ming Dynasty looks at Chenghua, the Qing Dynasty looks at Yongzheng".
Most of the porcelains of this period were small pieces, and viewing and playing with porcelain reached its peak in art and aesthetics.
It's easy to say that you want to imitate such high-end porcelain, but it's really difficult to actually do it.
Of course, as long as you grasp the key points and proceed step by step, it is not that difficult to imitate.
And this is relative to experts. If you are not an expert, you can't do anything.
For example, the most important focus is the glaze.
The characteristics are very clear: the enamel is plump and as moist as gelatin.
The texture of Chenghua ceramics is white, fine, and dry;
The carcass is beautiful and thin, and appears tooth yellow or flesh red when exposed to light;
The glaze color is slightly green, the enamel is plump and moist like gelatin, and it feels like a baby's skin when you touch it.
This has become the unique style of Chenghua official kiln wares, and this glaze color is one of the important features for identifying Chenghua porcelain of the Ming Dynasty.
If you can't even do this well, what about the more difficult decoration, the glaze cover?
So, the basic tire glaze is done, now it’s the decoration’s turn.
In the Ming Dynasty, especially in the Chenghua period, the decorative lines of porcelain were slender and soft, and the double-line outlining and coloring method was often used.
During the Chenghua period, the decorative lines were slender and soft, and double-line outlining and coloring were often used, and the coloring was relatively dull.
This point has been mentioned before, but it is not easy to achieve good results.
This is because the blue and white porcelain of this period had a simple and elegant style, such as singing and dancing, and the painting was elegant and unrestrained.
The decoration of Chenghua doucai utensils pays attention to the combination of rich and dark colors, mainly flat paint, without distinguishing between yin and yang, and the picture lacks a sense of hierarchy.
The flowers and clothes of the characters are painted with flat painting, and the leaves and flowers are not divided into yin and yang.
The clothes of the characters are only painted in a single color coat without underwear, so it is said that "one piece of clothing is made into a kiln", and there is no sense of unevenness in the rocks.
If these are the characteristics of a kind of porcelain, then in Chenghua doucai, or simply speaking, in all Chenghua porcelain, color materials are the most important.
"Sha Zi" has been mentioned before, its color is unique and its color is like red iron.
In addition, Chenghua colors have elegant color effects that are unparalleled in ancient and modern times.
The unique color is not just purple, there are many others.
For example, bright red, as bright as blood, with uneven thickness;
Goose yellow, delicate, transparent and shimmering green;
Apricot yellow, flashing reddish;
Water green, leaf green, mountain green, all transparent and slightly yellowish;
Beeswax yellow, slightly transparent;
dark ocher purple;
Ginger yellow is dense and light;
These glaze colors can appear on palace porcelain, and each one is unique.
Therefore, if you want to imitate them, each one requires effort, or money!
It turns out that domestic imitation of top-quality porcelain such as Sanqiu Cup and Chicken Bowl Cup must rely on the power of the state.
If you want to use your own efforts to complete the fine porcelain produced by the top royal kiln factory, you don't need a huge amount of money, but you also need top-notch technology.
Naturally, Chen Wenzhe couldn't help but be tempted by such porcelain.
After Chen Wenzhe couldn't help but do it himself, this production line of imitation Sanqiu cups was officially established.
However, there are too many senior craftsmen gathered in a Sanqiu cup production line.
Not to mention the shape of the vessel, decoration, etc., these are basic skills. If you want to work in this line, you must have this confidence.
The other thing is the mixing of the glaze. If it is well mixed and fired beautifully, then it is qualified to be on the Sanqiu Cup.
This can trouble many people, because there are too many glaze colors on the Sanqiu Cup and the Chicken Bowl Cup, which are so beautiful.
Not to mention the colorful and colorful ones, because he has done these two before.
Not to mention the red ones, he has already made them all, and he has also made a lot of green glazed porcelain.
Even Shao Zi has made several high-quality chicken cups, so he is no stranger to this.
Instead, it is yellow glazed porcelain, which he has not done much.
Yellow glaze is not simple, even Chen Wenzhe needs to study it carefully.
If we study yellow glaze carefully and don’t say whether it is true or false, but just talk about the color of yellow glaze, then the history will be long.
The earliest yellow glaze ware in my country can be traced back to the Han Dynasty.
There have been innovations and breakthroughs in almost every generation since then.
Potters in the Eastern Han Dynasty added iron oxide as a coloring agent to the glaze and used lead as a co-solvent.
In the oxidizing atmosphere of the kiln, the color reaction of iron is used to create yellow-brown colored glazed pottery.
For example, the famous "Eastern Han Dynasty yellow glaze green cloud pattern plate mouth pottery pot" can be seen from this pottery pot that the yellow glaze color at that time was darker.
Painted pottery refers to pottery that is painted with natural mineral pigments on the fired pottery and then is not fired in the kiln.
It has been found in some sites as early as the Neolithic Age.
It flourished during the Warring States, Qin, and Han dynasties.
Generally, colors are applied on gray pottery, and the shapes are mostly statues, pots, tripods, warehouses, figurines and other ancient vessels.
The colors applied include red, black, brown, yellow, green, cyan, white, purple, etc.
The decorations mostly imitate the decorations on lacquerware of the same period, with clouds, swirls, dragons and phoenixes, and "four spirits" patterns being the most common.
Low-temperature lead-glazed pottery is also a type of burial vessel.
It first appeared in the Guanzhong area during the Western Han Dynasty and became popular throughout the country during the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The glaze colors are mainly yellow and green, with ferric oxide and copper oxide as colorants respectively.
They all use lead oxide as a baking aid, the firing temperature is about 700c--900c, and the glaze surface is bright.
The shapes mostly imitate the lacquerware and bronze wares of the same period, giving people a refreshing feeling.
For example, a Western Han Dynasty painted gray pottery engraved with dragon and phoenix patterns and a double-tie lid has a height of 64 cm, a diameter of 21 cm, and a full diameter of 24 cm.
The pot is made of gray pottery. It has a curled mouth, tied neck, flat shoulders, round belly and high round feet.
The abdomen is symmetrically placed with a ring system and the whole body is decorated with paintings.
The abdomen is divided into upper and lower decorative bands with three convex string patterns.
The upper decorative belt is embossed with dragons, tigers, and red birds chasing each other among the flowing clouds. The colors are gorgeous, the lines are smooth and graceful, and the picture is lively and lively.
The lower decorative belt is decorated with painted branches.
Under the rim of the mouth, a triangle pattern is painted.
The neck is within the triangle pattern, depicting cloud patterns.
Circle the foot and draw 3 string patterns.
This painted pottery pot is colorful and the colors used include red, green, blue, black, white, yellow and other colors.
Even after more than two thousand years, it is still dazzling.
Painted pottery was first fired in the late Neolithic Age. Colored materials such as red, black, yellow, white, and black are often used to depict patterns on the surface of gray pottery.
The Warring States, Qin and Han dynasties were periods of development and prosperity for painted pottery.
Whether in the south or the north, painted pottery pots, beans, plates, statues, tripods, etc. are often buried with them in tombs.
The painted pottery decorations mostly imitate the lacquerware decorations of the same period, with rich colors, complex compositions and full of romantic artistic charm.