Chapter 1,537 The best in history, he really knows how to play
The blue and white multicolored porcelain created by Xuande has become a highlight in the history of the development of porcelain in my country and laid the foundation for the firing of Doucai in Chenghua.
According to the "Da Ming Huidian", in the eighth year of Xuande alone, Jingzhen was given the task of firing 443,500 pieces of dragon and phoenix porcelain. You can imagine the scale of firing during the Xuande period.
At the same time, the successful firing of copper-red glazes and other single-color glazes during the Yongle and Xuande years also demonstrated the high technical level of the porcelain industry at that time.
There are many other famous porcelains from the Xuande period, among which the cricket jar is more famous.
Xuande blue and white cricket jars were Chen Wenzhe’s earliest exposure to official kilns.
Of course, what he was playing with at that time was a cricket jar, or a later imitation.
This emperor plays with famous products because he is very good at playing.
Therefore, the cricket jars of this period should be considered the best in history.
For example, the Ming Dynasty Xuande blue and white cricket jar with auspicious animal pattern, Ming Xuande blue and white cricket jar with peony pattern, Ming Dynasty Xuande blue and white cricket jar with eagle and wild goose pattern, Ming Dynasty Xuande blue and white cricket jar with Tingzhou bamboo and chicken pattern, Ming Dynasty Xuande blue and white Tingzhou cricket jar with mandarin duck pattern, etc.
This kind of fine porcelain, or to be more precise, good insect ware, there were still a lot of them during the Xuande period.
Chen Wenzhe can think of a big problem after just a little thought.
For example, there are cricket jars with blue and white cherry and bird patterns, cricket jars with blue and white melon and fruit patterns, and cricket jars with blue and white kingfisher and mandarin duck patterns.
Then there are the blue and white cricket jars with Tingzhou egret pattern and the blue and white cricket jar with seawater monster pattern.
There are more other cricket jars with blue and white pine, bamboo and plum patterns, blue and white cricket jars with chilong pattern, and blue and white phoenix pattern cricket jars.
Finally, there are cricket jars with blue and white phoenixes and peonies, blue and white cricket jars with rows of dragons, etc.
These are a complete set, and besides the cricket jars, Emperor Xuande was still very interested in the bird food jars. He really knew how to play with them...
For example, the Xuande blue and white double bird food jar is 10.1 cm long, 5.5 cm wide, and 5.3 cm high.
Unearthed in the Xuande Formation of Zhushan Mountain in 1984, the jar is bamboo-shaped and hollow, with blooming hibiscus flowers molded on both ends, and the petals are painted with green material to give them obvious layers.
The outer wall is painted with twining flowers, and there are two lines on the belly. The white space on the jar body is marked with a six-character horizontal inscription in blue and white, "Made in the Xuande Year of the Great Ming Dynasty."
Everyone, please go and try it soon.】
The edge of the mouth of this device is exposed, so it should be covered and burned.
This is still an ordinary device, with a bit of technical content, just various types of advanced devices.
Relatively simple ones, and representative ones include the Xuande blue and white bird food jar with chinchilla and dragon patterns in the Ming Dynasty.
This is a blue and white pot with a round body and a flat bottom without glaze. The outer wall is carved with a dragon and filled with white glaze.
The ground is painted with green material to make the chi dragon float on the outer wall. There is a small tie on the abdomen, and a six-character horizontal inscription "Daming Xuande Year" written in blue and white on the edge of the mouth is left blank.
There are many such blue-ground porcelains, and the classic one is the large blue-ground white daylily pattern.
This porcelain has a sapphire blue base and white glaze painted with day lilies, flowers and fruits.
The daylilies, flowers and fruits are all carved with details.
Of course, this time Chen Wenzhe was making yellow-glazed porcelain, so he wanted to imitate the yellow-glazed porcelain from the Xuande period.
The large pot with yellow ground glaze and flower pattern is considered a common product because the pattern is not special.
The large jar is also very common, and the only thing worth mentioning is the glaze.
Thinking about this kind of porcelain, it was not uncommon during the Xuande period.
For example, a large plate with yellow ground, blue and white flowers and daylily patterns from the Xuande period, with a diameter of 35.4 cm, a full diameter of 24.8 cm, and a height of 6.2 cm, is absolutely a large plate.
It has a skimmed mouth, curved walls, circle feet, brown sand bottom, white glaze filled with yellow color, and then low-temperature grilling.
Hemerocallis fulva, also known as "Yinan grass", was a favorite plant in the palace of the Ming Dynasty.
Making a large dish may seem simple, but actually making it is not as simple as people think.
Not to mention yellow glaze, even blue and white glaze is difficult to fire as long as the plate is large enough.
Or let’s talk about the Xuande period. The lotus pattern plate, which was very difficult to bake at that time, and the phoenix pattern bottle with superb skills are all classics.
The Xuande blue and white dragon pierced with lotus patterns is a work from the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. It has a diameter of more than 70 cm, a height of 6.8 cm, and a foot diameter of 55 cm.
It is much larger than the Xuande platter with yellow ground, blue and white flowers and daylilies pattern.
This plate has an open mouth, curved walls, and rounded feet.
The inside and outside are decorated with blue and white flowers, and the inside bottom is painted with two five-clawed dragons connected head to tail, walking through the lotus branches.
The inner wall is painted with a lotus pattern, and there are eight lotus flowers on the branches.
Four five-clawed dragons are painted on the outer wall, running head to tail through the tangled Ganoderma lucidum branches.
In the blank space next to the mouth edge, from right to left, there is a six-character horizontal inscription "Da Ming Jiajing Year System" in blue and white regular script.
There is a double rectangular frame of blue and white on the outside, and the inside of the circle is unglazed.
This plate is huge in shape and can be called a giant plate among the imperial kiln porcelain plates of the Ming Dynasty.
Under the productivity level of the Ming Dynasty, it was very difficult to fire such a large plate with a diameter of more than 70 centimeters.
In the Ming Dynasty, this kind of large plate was mainly found in Xuande and Jiajing imperial kiln porcelain.
Let's go back to Huangdi, which is Huangcai porcelain.
For example, there is a gourd vase with red ground and yellow color and lotus pattern. There is one handed down from the Jiajing period.
It has a height of 45.1 cm, a diameter of 5 cm, and a foot diameter of 13.4 cm.
The vase is in the shape of a treasure gourd with a circle foot.
The whole body has dark patterns and is decorated with red ground and yellow colors.
From top to bottom, six string patterns divide the decoration into five layers.
The mouth is decorated with a Ganoderma lucidum pattern with four folded branches. The upper abdomen and waist of the vase are decorated with lotus branches, with four lotus flowers on each.
There is a plum blossom pattern around the waist. The lower abdomen of the vase is also decorated with a lotus pattern and six lotuses on top.
The outsole is embossed with the six-character double-line "Da Ming Jiajing Year System" in blue and white regular script, with a blue and white double circle on the outside.
The yellow color on red ground is based on the addition of alum red color on the yellow glaze, so it is also called "yellow on red", which is homophonic with "Huang Shang Hong".
Some people think that this means "blessing the emperor with great blessings to the heaven".
During the Jiajing and Wanli periods of the Ming Dynasty, the colorful porcelain was changed to the sparse and elegant style of Huacai porcelain, and became complicated and rich.
This change is closely related to the change in social customs in the Ming Dynasty.
This colorful decoration technique vividly depicts the graceful postures of various flowers.
The whole picture is filled with a festive and auspicious atmosphere, which also reflects the superb porcelain making skills of the porcelain craftsmen at that time.
In fact, not to mention ancient market, even some modern high-quality market is very rare.
So the manufacturing process of a plate is so complicated?
Not to mention the various domestic porcelains, let’s talk about some of the famous foreign porcelains, namely bone china and the like.
As long as they are fine products, only the royal families of various countries are worthy of them!
The reason why Chen Wenzhe understands foreign fine porcelain is also thanks to the family who customized European antique porcelain in South Vietnam last time.
It is because of them that Chen Wenzhe has recently paid attention to some famous foreign porcelain.
There are certain reasons why people can become famous and sell their products so expensively.
Besides, Europeans like gorgeous things, especially the royal families of various countries.
And this kind of aesthetic is just suitable for, or in other words, caters to the aesthetic vision of modern people.