There are currently six groups in the studio, each with their own works. For example, Wang Jing made a celadon-glazed Cong-style bottle.
Bai Jingjing repaired a lotus-shaped covered jar, while Zhang Cheng repaired a crabapple lamp.
Some of these things are small bowl-shaped, such as Cong-style bottles, with only a small part of the rim.
This was based on the broken porcelain pieces of a small bowl, but Wang Jing definitely didn't want to make a small bowl with a simple shape, so she simply used the rim to repair a classic Longquan kiln Cong-style vase.
The white crystal lotus-shaped tureen has the same idea.
Moreover, she simply found two pieces of porcelain, one was part of the lotus-shaped lid, and the other was a small piece of broken porcelain from the large jar.
Of course, this is what she said, and Chen Wenzhe thinks that she is stretching it.
It was obvious that Bai Jingjing felt that the type of vessel she was repairing was too simple, so she felt uncomfortable with it. It was equivalent to repairing two Longquan kiln pieces at once.
Among them, the one by Zhang Cheng is the simplest, Haitang Zhan.
The Begonia lamp looks like a small bowl, but the bowl is shaped like a Begonia, which requires excellent carving skills.
Also, in principle, this should be two pieces, because there should be a support under the Begonia lamp. However, Zhang Cheng directly fired a new support without using splicing technology or heat joining process.
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As for the last Wang Wei group, their group made two pieces of a jar with a lotus petal pattern lid.
But what they repaired was the lid, which is a can lid that looks like a small saucer. It is not difficult to repair.
Even if you fire it yourself, it will only take a few more firings before it will be successful. After all, porcelain pieces similar to small dishes can only be made as much as possible with a little trimming.
Therefore, Wang Wei's team did not ask Chen Wenzhe for help.
Senior Brother Wang Wei has already completed his third year of graduate school and seems to be very confident in his own abilities.
Chen Wenzhe doesn't care. If someone asks, he will provide guidance. As for firing the whole process himself, forget it.
Anyway, there are many small CNC gas kilns that can be used in the studio now. They can enter the kiln one by one. Chen Wenzhe can give a little guidance on this process.
Therefore, Chen Wenzhe agreed happily.
But then he was not happy anymore. He had to deal with the graduate students leading the group, and then came the freshmen and sophomores, whose problems were much more troublesome.
It turns out that he just checked his homework, but now he needs to be taught step by step.
"Senior Brother Chen, I'm still not sure about the proportion of purple gold soil."
After finally dealing with all the rookies, this time a young eagle came looking for trouble.
Looking at the pretty Zhang Youlan, Chen Wenzhe felt a little helpless.
Countless people have been studying the utilization of purple gold soil from ancient times to the present, but who has made the research results public?
Chen Wenzhe didn't say anything, but personally used purple gold soil to make a clay imitation of the official kilns of the Southern Song Dynasty.
The peak of Longquan kiln was in the Southern Song Dynasty, not the Northern Song Dynasty.
Seriously speaking, the celadon produced in the Northern Song Dynasty was relatively rough, both in body and glaze, compared to the Southern Song Dynasty.
And Chen Wenzhe has master-level kiln skills, making celadon-glazed porcelain and plum green porcelain without any problems.
In response to Zhang Youlan's inquiry, Chen Wenzhe just acted but did not say anything.
Let her see the production steps clearly, which is the limit.
After the tire mud was mixed, Chen Wenzhe thought for a while and started to press out strips of mud.
He planned to make a celadon-glazed ewer, one that was slender, even slender.
The handle and neck are very slender, and the beauty pot has no shoulders, but a streamlined shoulder and neck. The beauty pot made in this way is very beautiful.
Such a pot has a high height, and the handle is slender, so the requirements for the clay are very high, at least it must have a certain hardness.
Before the Yuan Dynasty, porcelain fired in porcelain kilns was actually low-temperature porcelain because Macang clay and kaolin were not found.
Only by mixing these two types of soil into the porcelain stone will the pottery become hardened.
This is also the reason why it was not until the Yuan Dynasty that all kinds of large and exquisite porcelain could be fired.
In the Song Dynasty, purple gold soil was added, which also had this effect, but purple gold soil had a great impact on the external expression of porcelain.
As the amount of purple gold soil mixed in increases, the iron content inside the body increases, and various changes occur. This is how the purple mouth iron foot comes from.
Chen Wenzhe has very mature experience in making pots, but this is not a teapot, but a wine pot.
However, by analogy, it is no different from making a teapot.
However, compared to the master-level craftsmanship of the horizontal pot, his craftsmanship in making the holding pot can only reach the expert (specialized) level at best.
This is determined by the type of pot. He has never made pots before, so naturally he cannot reach the master level all at once.
However, Chen Wenzhe guessed that if he practiced a few more times, he might be able to advance to the master level in various pot-making techniques.
After all, he now has master-level teapot-making skills, as well as various other teapot-level skills.
Therefore, it is not difficult to make a handle pot now.
And when making the body of the pot, especially the shoulder and neck, his drawing technology can also be used.
With the integration of various skills, it is not difficult for Chen Wenzhe to make a beautiful teapot.
In fact, the most difficult thing about holding a pot for this beauty is blending the clay.
Because not only the shoulders and necks that hold the pot need strength, but the handle and spout also need extremely high strength. Otherwise, the slender spout and handle will not be able to hold up at all and will break as soon as they are picked up.
Chen Wenzhe makes pots very quickly.
Moreover, when making pots, you don’t have to dry them frequently.
Therefore, Chen Wenzhe made this beauty holding pot in one go.
Next, it is dried, then glazed and put into the kiln.
As for the glaze, Chen Wenzhe didn't want to make it too troublesome, so he just made the moon white glaze.
This is the simplest kind of glaze. You can prepare a moon white glaze by slightly mixing it with purple gold clay to keep the iron content in the glaze at about 2%.
The iron contained in purple gold soil can change the color of the glaze.
When the iron content of the carcass is constant, the glaze color will deepen as the iron content increases.
So there are different glaze colors such as moon white, pink green, plum green and so on.
In addition, the alkaline component in purple clay can also reduce the fluidity of the glaze, making it possible to fire thick-glazed celadon.
In this way, thin tire and thick glaze can be achieved.
Throughout the entire process, Chen Wenzhe did not avoid anyone, so he could see whatever he wanted to see.
This time is no exception, someone videotaped it.
As for whether the formula ratio of the moon white glaze can be found through video recording, only God knows.
This thing is just a tiny bit off, otherwise it wouldn't be called a secret recipe.
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