Chapter 1809: Handmade with ingenuity, returning to nature
Especially during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the production of porcelain was a culmination of the famous kilns of the past dynasties, and a large number of carving and moving ring techniques were used. Its sophistication reached the pinnacle of historical porcelain craftsmanship.
Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, a hollow celadon-glazed pastel vase with gold Kui phoenix pattern on it. The belly is decorated with a celadon glaze hollow and gold Kui phoenix pattern. There is a small bottle inside the bottle.
Qing Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, a hollow pastel covered box with lotus branches and longevity patterns. The porcelain lid box is decorated with hollowing and painting techniques. The hollowing technique is skillful, the painting strokes are delicate, and the decoration is relatively complicated.
A turquoise green glazed hollow flower basket from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, with twelve gold-colored living rings under the rim.
The handle is composed of two strings of golden rings and three hollow flame pattern porcelain pieces, and the whole body is decorated with a hollow dragon piercing pattern.
The hollow decorations on porcelain of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties are complex and exquisite, reflecting the pinnacle level of ancient Chinese porcelain firing technology.
This is the application of hollowing technology on porcelain, but it has more applications in other aspects.
For example, the hollowing process is applied to carving. This carving technology is widely used in the fields of stone carving, jade carving, wood carving, ivory carving and other artistic carving fields.
Among them, the most commonly used one is definitely jade carving, and the most difficult thing among jade carvings is hollow carving.
Although some rough stones are beautiful without any decay, there is also a saying that "jade cannot be used until it is cut."
Hollowing out is not just about hollowing out the jade, but removing part of the jade material through drilling, grinding and other techniques to reveal the pattern and artistic conception that the jade carver wants to express.
After careful carving, they become more artistic, bringing humanistic beauty and the essence of the times to the extreme.
This technique has been passed down from the Stone Age, but today, hollow jade works with low value and little collection value are also rare.
So far, modern people have stopped pursuing purely handmade products.
The other is "plane hollowing" based on relief, which also shows a sense of hierarchy on a plane. Some sachets, bottles, brands, large jewelry, etc. are all hollowed out on a plane.
The gold jewelry on the market comes in many shapes and styles, and hollow gold jewelry is not one of them.
With the development of the times, people's demand for design is becoming more and more personalized, and they also pay more attention to the ideas and creativity of design works.
Such gold hollow jewelry has no features? Isn’t it heavier?
First of all, there are few hollow shapes, which cannot better meet the needs of the younger generation for beauty.
Although that technique is difficult, there is actually no trace of it in the Neolithic Age.
Pure handcrafting is a great test of the master's skills. Often a hollow work will consume a small amount of the master's energy.
Art has its own value, and the techniques that can only be used by mature jade carving masters are not an indispensable but weak support for the trend of thought that advocates "returning to nature", advocating "hand-made", and advocating "craftsmanship".
The hollowing process may less often exist as a form of embellishment.
The hollow jade carving is not just a show of skill. The hollow jade carving has a more three-dimensional effect. It is the jade carving master who has mastered the scale of creation, so that the work can perfectly fit the theme and highlight the artistic beauty.
Among them, hollowing out is very complicated and exquisite, and it is one of the most difficult techniques with the lowest technical content.
Among jewelry techniques, none of them are inferior to others. They look simple but are synonymous with heavy craftsmanship. I am not interested in hollowing out techniques.
Of course, when it comes to jewelry, usually some gold and silver jewelry, that kind of craftsmanship can still shine with a weak brilliance.
The technology of hollowing out can not be traced back to the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and it affected the art forms produced before.
Moreover, hollow jewelry is particularly heavy and puts a lot of pressure on the wearing part, so it is very suitable for wearing for a long time.
At the very least, use fine materials so that there are no obvious dark cracks.
And that kind of rough work requires very low raw materials.
In the eyes of Chinese people, Hotan jade is not a cold and boring stone, but full of spirituality and vitality.
Therefore, jade carving is one of the most ancient and unique crafts in your country.
As time goes by, skills are constantly upgraded, and hollow withering is still an area that ordinary people dare to challenge again and again.
Bad materials and bad work are king. Now that raw materials are precious, the price of seed materials has been rising all the way.
The hollow jade carving may not be a container that carves the ideology of beauty under the jade carving so that it can be seen in objective existence.
A small portion of the rough stones that are not damaged will be used to make brands that have a wider audience, are more reliable, and can recover costs slowly.
Of course, designers should not be left with less room to play, making jewelry more fashionable and beautiful, and bringing excellent visual effects to people.
Hollowing craftsmanship is a common craftsmanship in gold jewelry, and is relatively common in gold bracelets or gold rings. The traditional handmade craftsmanship is extremely rough and gorgeous, but it is still worth learning.
In contemporary times, hollows are also widely used. Many international famous jewelry brands have their own classic hollow styles, which are deeply loved by fashion people.
Hetian jade is generally seed material and is bought and sold on a gram-by-gram basis, with the price clearly marked per millimeter.
Therefore, the hollowing out technique from the Shang and Zhou dynasties has become more and more mature as the times progress, usually in gold jewelry.
In fact, the hollowing out technique in jewelry does not have a long history!
Even so, hollow and withered works still have no place in the market.
The art of hollowing out itself does not help jewelry very much.
It only reflects the rough beauty of traditional hollow craftsmanship, and it is also the inheritance and development of a kind of arts and crafts culture!
Such as paper-cutting, shadow puppets, assorted windows in southern architecture, openwork in traditional furniture and jewelry, etc.
Coupled with the less diverse aesthetics of modern people, it also affects the trend of jade carving style. In a slow-paced life, simple, bright and slow themes may be more popular.
The ordinary beauty brought by hollowing out fascinates millions of jewelry lovers.
The reason for saying that porcelain cannot use the hollowing process carefully is because it is afraid of waste. Nowadays, no one is willing to use such materials for jade.
That makes many people hate eating jade powder but also willing to waste it. Hollowing out Hetian jade is such a waste of materials and time, and not everyone is willing to buy it.
In Zhu Guangqian's "Talking about Beauty", he mentioned two schools of understanding of what beauty is.
Pure hollow works that consume time, labor and materials are becoming more and more common.
According to the techniques, there are no line withering, free-spirited withering, round withering, relief, inner withering, concave withering, pretty withering, and hollow withering, each with its own characteristics.
During this period, everyone from the royal family to the common people respected jade and loved gorgeous and complicated jade carvings. Naturally, hollow carvings were widely used.
We only want to make the inside and outside look beautiful, and we also need to pay attention to the mutual contrast with the main stone.
By the Ming and Qing dynasties, ancient Hetian jade craftsmanship reached its peak.
Hollow-out mainly has two forms of expression, one is "three-dimensional hollow" based on round-shaped, such as movable chain;
One of the schools believes that beauty is found in art, and that beauty in art comes from human creative activities.
The difficulty of the technique itself is small. Firstly, Hetian jade is precious. If you make a mistake with care, it will be difficult to recover.
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