Chapter 1,648 The very magical beauty of imperfections
If you want to imitate Jun kiln porcelain, you must pay attention to the detailed weather forecast before igniting the firewood kiln.
If the weather conditions are not very good, you need to pay attention.
However, the completion of embryo production cannot be delayed for too long.
It is fired in the kiln and the kiln is opened for three days.
At this time, there are often 40 or 50 pieces of Zhijun lamps in a kiln, but only a few high-quality ones, which translates into a high-quality rate of only 5%.
However, even if there are only two high-quality products, they can still be praised by people in the industry.
The "Zhijun lamp" is made by hand drawing, and the decoration techniques adopt jumping knife pattern, swirl pattern, Jun glaze and Tianmu glaze.
The key parts of the mouth and feet are shaped, and refined to create micro feet, high feet, turned mouth, narrowed mouth, etc.
The combination of different decorative techniques brings different visual experiences.
Combined with the wood-burning process, or applying kiln-turned colorful Jun glaze, or unglazed bare firing, a small tea cup can present nearly a hundred styles.
As the saying goes, a slight difference can lead to a mistake of a thousand miles.
Some things feel unreliable, and you need to repeatedly make finished products for comparison to determine which one is better.
"Better" is the pursuit of Jun porcelain art by all porcelain craftsmen, and Chen Wenzhe is no exception.
It's just that he has made Jun kiln porcelain before, so naturally he won't do it now.
However, instead of making Jun porcelain, he could make some Ge Kiln porcelain.
To be honest, among the five famous kilns in the Song Dynasty, Guan Kiln, Ge Kiln and Jun Kiln, there are too many similarities between them.
Among the famous porcelains of the Song Dynasty, Guan Kiln, Ge Kiln and Jun Kiln are all treasures of Song Dynasty porcelain.
These exquisite porcelains not only have practical functions, but also serve as decorative porcelain for appreciation.
With the same functions and being in the same era, similarities are inevitable.
Learning from each other's strengths and learning from other people's top technologies can be found in every era.
Of course, if you learn from others, it is impossible to make the same porcelain in the end.
Therefore, the characteristics of Guan kiln, Ge kiln, and Jun kiln porcelain are different from the shape of the porcelain, the glaze, the firing method, etc.
Among the famous porcelains of the Song Dynasty, Guan Kiln, Ge Kiln, and Jun Kiln are all famous porcelain kilns of the Song Dynasty.
The kiln site of the official kiln of the Northern Song Dynasty has not been found so far, and there is also little information recorded in the literature.
The kiln site of Ge Kiln has not been discovered exactly, which adds to the mystery of Ge Kiln porcelain.
Ge Kiln porcelain is exquisite in shape, and the body is full of cracks. There are very few handed down porcelain with this kind of defective beauty, so it can be called my country's precious porcelain.
The development of Jun kiln is very clear. From the Northern Song Dynasty to the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, Jun kiln continued to be fired.
Let’s not talk about Guan Kiln and Jun Kiln first, let’s talk about Ge Kiln first.
The shapes of Ge Kiln porcelain in the Song Dynasty were mainly furnishing porcelain and antique porcelain.
Sunflower bowls, five-legged washbasins, string-patterned bottles, chrysanthemum petal plates, three-legged stoves, and octagonal cups are all common utensils.
The body of Ge kiln porcelain in the Song Dynasty is very dense and is generally gray, earthy yellow, or dark purple gray.
The glaze colors of Ge kiln porcelain in the Song Dynasty mainly include pink green, emerald green, gray green, gray yellow, beige, moon white, etc.
The glaze of Ge Kiln porcelain is thin, with a buttery luster, and also has the characteristics of "golden iron wire".
The support firing method of Ge kiln porcelain mainly uses glazing and foot-wrapped support nails.
Ge Kiln porcelain was also used as royal porcelain in the Song Dynasty. Ge Kiln was the most mysterious among the five famous kilns in the Song Dynasty.
There are many mysteries surrounding it. For example, the Ge Kiln is the same kiln entrance as the Guan Kiln, and is very close to it.
It also has the characteristics of a purple mouth and iron feet, and is also open.
So how close is it? Those who have seen Ge Kiln and Guan Kiln porcelain can know how close they are just by comparing them.
This kind of similarity is sometimes difficult for even experts to distinguish.
Sometimes it is really difficult to distinguish it.
All this is because the historical records are ominous.
In the legend, this is how Ge Kiln appeared?
The "Continuation of the Seven Revised Type Drafts" published in the 45th year of Jiajing's reign stated that both the Ge Kiln and the Longquan Kiln came from Longquan County in the prefecture.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhang gave birth to one brother and two brothers, each of whom was in charge of a kiln.
The person who produced one pottery was called Ge Kiln, hence the name, and the person who produced two potteries in Zhang was called Longquan, which was named after the place.
What this ancient book says is: Ge Kiln and Longquan Kiln are both in Longquan County, Jiangsu and Zhejiang today, in southern Zhejiang.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, he believed that there were two brothers. The one fired by the elder brother was called Ge Kiln, and the one fired by the younger brother was called Longquan. This was a saying in the Jiajing period.
Anyone who has carefully studied Ge Kiln will know that this statement is not very reliable.
Not to mention anything else, just the difference between Longquan kiln porcelain and Ge kiln porcelain is too big.
Since they are two brothers, it is not difficult to imagine that their technology comes from the same place, right?
So why are there such big differences in the porcelain they produced?
Chen Wenzhe is very knowledgeable about Longquan celadon and also knows a lot about Ge kiln.
Let’s not talk about what the works of Longquan kiln are like. Let’s talk about Ge kiln first. It is very similar to Guan kiln.
Not to mention anything else, it is just an external feature, and its similarity is too high.
The first feature is the gold wire, which is its typical feature.
The so-called gold threads are finely broken pieces that are yellow in color.
The iron wire is a black open piece and appears black.
In ancient times, there was another term for gold wire and iron wire, which was called civil and military films.
It refers to the size of the opening piece, because generally when it comes to gold wire, the opening piece is relatively small.
As far as the railway lines, they are all big.
This feature of golden iron wire is actually a kind of imperfect beauty in ceramic firing.
During ceramic firing, due to the different expansion coefficients of the body and the glaze, it will crack again after it comes out of the kiln.
How will it crack? If you have seen it coming out of the kiln, you will think it is very magical.
As soon as I came out of the kiln, I could hear the sound.
You can hear clearly, the sound of the bottle exploding is clear and sweet.
So how long can the crackling sound last? It can last for two years.
I bought a new Ge Kiln bottle and put it at home. In the dead of night, sometimes I heard a bang, a bang!
It will last for one or two years, which many people cannot imagine.
So why does it have golden wires? It's because it's going to explode as I just said.
The so-called civil and military films have a large opening. After the film is opened, it is placed directly into the black charcoal water, and black iron wires appear.
Now just put it in the ink, and when you take it out, the bottle will turn into a black slice, which is very clear.
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As for very thin slices, because the gap is too small, the color cannot enter.
So as time went by, gas went inside and oxidized into yellow, and golden threads appeared. This was caused by time.
The second characteristic of the Ge Kiln is the purple mouth and iron feet, which is the same as the Guan Kiln.
But the Ge kiln is also a little different. Cao Zhao's "Ge Gu Yao Lun Zhong" says: The color of the old Ge kiln varied from green to dark, and there were also purple mouths and iron feet.
Cao Zhao was from Songyang, and Songjiang is now Dahai City.
Cao Zhao's "Ge Gu Yao Lun" is a very important document about antiques. He wrote it in the early Ming Dynasty.