The finished product is only less than five centimeters high and can be described as small and exquisite.
Once the carving is complete and slightly modified, it is ready to be glazed.
Making a bronze is very complicated, but making a porcelain sculpture is very simple for Chen Wenzhe, who is very skilled in carving skills.
After finishing the decoration, Chen Wenzhe fell into deep thought as he looked at the Four-Yang Fangzun that looked like a wine cup.
It's a pity to use this thing as a tea pet or a handle, but it can actually be used as a wine cup.
The real Four-Yang Square Zun is a wine vessel, but the porcelain Four-Yang Square Zun he is making is small and needs to be glazed. After it is successfully fired, the appearance will be smooth and it can definitely be used as a drinking vessel.
Porcelain sculpture is a folk craft that uses kaolin clay to shape various figures and other images and then fires the porcelain.
The Guanyin sculpture that Chen Wenzhe studied before is actually most suitable for firing into porcelain sculptures.
It is also the combination of various techniques that allows Chen Wenzhe to make clay sculptures very smoothly.
Since it's easy, let's make a few more.
While thinking about it, I made a porcelain sculpture of the Four-Yang Square Zun.
One, two, ten, until more than twenty were carved, Chen Wenzhe did not stop.
There are too many carvings on these things, and they are very boring.
In fact, if you think about it, no matter whether it is an elephant statue, a rhinoceros statue, or an ox statue, they are not suitable for modern people to use. Nowadays, wine bottles are most commonly used for drinking.
Therefore, he couldn't help but make a beautiful teapot.
The body of the pot is slender, with a thin waist and a long neck. Both the spout and the handle are very slender. As a result, the requirements for the production process are high.
However, when Chen Wenzhe wanted to make celadon, the clay he used was purple gold clay, so it was hard enough.
Since purple gold clay is used, it is natural to try to make the porcelain body as thin as possible. The thin body and thick glaze will make it beautiful when fired.
"It seems like there's no way to innovate? There's no point in imitating it!" After making two beautiful teapots, Chen Wenzhe became discouraged.
He felt that there was no room for him to use wine containers, and even if he made some, it would be useless.
At this time, he couldn't help but think of Jue.
The ancient wine containers are no longer useful, but some drinking containers are of good shape and can still be used even in modern times.
Goblet, goblet, horn, jue, cup, boat, only jue, especially triangle jue, should be very suitable for making and using.
Jue cup is a style of cup and wine utensil.
The rim of the jue cup is outward, the round belly is slightly deep, the front tip is tilted back, and the bottom is supported by three high legs, so it is also called the three jue cup.
There are symmetrical columns on both sides of the mouth rim to strengthen the shape.
This is a major category of bronzes in my country. According to historical records, people with high status used jue.
This is a kind of reward given by the emperor in ancient times to the feudal princes.
Later, "jue" became the abbreviation of "noble title", and this is where the phrase "increasing official rank and advancing to nobility" came from.
So, even in modern times, the meaning of this thing is very good.
Also, the larger triangular cup can be used as a wine divider, and the smaller one can be used as a wine glass. Some people may like this kind of antique handicraft.
However, it is still relatively difficult to make something unique.
"The color of the bronze is not good-looking. Green or cyan, crystal clear like jade, should be fine. Copper red, like bronze, should also be fine. Wouldn't it be more beautiful if it was wrapped with a layer of ruby light?"
Thinking of Li Jinli's request, he wanted to make filigree enamel, and his craftsmanship skills were not yet sufficient, but it seemed not difficult to make some treasure-fired porcelain.
Just do whatever comes to mind, what color and what kind of enamel to use, that's all after making the embryos. Now he needs to make a batch of embryos.
The triangle cup is actually a kind of wine cup. Chen Wenzhe first made the body of the wine cup and then tilted the rim of the cup outward.
After achieving this step, modify the cup body, especially the abdomen, which must be made into a round abdomen.
After that, trim the edge of the mouth. The lip must be round and blunt, the tail of the cup must be light, and the shape must be tilted forward and backward.
The most important thing is the three tall legs below. In order to pursue stability, the three legs must be pointed outwards.
After all this is done, the clay tire of the Triangular Jue Cup will be considered completed.
At this time, in order to pursue beauty, various exquisite patterns are usually carved on the objects.
Due to the special meaning of jue, the exquisite patterns on the body of triangular jue cups are generally solemn.
Of course, you can create a dignified and mysterious feeling.
Because many ancient bronze knights are full of mystery and ferocious beauty, they can be said to be full of charm.
Of course, this type of vessel was originally made of bronze, so the unique luster of bronze must be indispensable.
Chen Wenzhe is very confident about this.
If you can't get the sparkling light, isn't there a way to make the surface of the cup glow with a faint luster?
The production of porcelain requires glazing, which is different from the production process of purple clay pots.
However, his skills can be used on glaze.
Chen Wenzhe was not confident enough about other glazes, but he was very confident about celadon glaze.
After thinking about it, Chen Wenzhe used incised thunder patterns and chrysanthemum patterns to make it look more solemn and solemn.
Later, he planned to use pink green glaze for this triangular jue cup instead of the darker plum green glaze.
These two glazes are considered to be the top varieties of celadon, and Chen Wenzhe has master-level skills in the production and firing of celadon kilns.
However, before, he only showed a little bit of his strength when he was making the beauty holding the pot.
Today, he planned to perform well, so for a triangle cup, he tried his best to pursue perfection.
Once the carving is complete, just let it dry for a while and then apply the glaze.
Next, he made several more triangular cups, the shape of which was the same, but the carvings on them were different.
In order to pursue the grand and graceful, vigorous and neat, powerful, dignified and elegant demeanor, Chen Wenzhe uses different patterns, but they are all special in price.
For example, dragon and phoenix patterns, Kui dragon patterns, chilong patterns, thunder patterns, cloud patterns, etc. Some of these patterns are combined with each other, and some are independent and cover the cup body.
In the end, Chen Wenzhe began to incorporate his carving skills.
For example, on a triangular cup, the godson of a blue dragon is engraved.
This kind of cup first has a thunder pattern rim and a chrysanthemum pattern carved on the cup belly, and then uses the form of low relief to carve four large and small chi dragons on the wall of the cup mouth.
This jue cup has a strong traditional style and was made based on the shape of bronzes from the Shang Dynasty.
In the composition of patterns, Chen Wenzhe attaches great importance to the contrast between density, complexity and simplicity, depth and light, and movement and stillness.
Also pay attention to the use of contrast in size and depth to depict objects with clear priorities and vivid images.
In terms of carving, Chen Wenzhe's knife skills are exquisite. He combines round carving and relief carving, and integrates various carving techniques. The carved patterns are fine and exquisite, with smooth lines and a strong sense of integrity.
The most important thing is that the design is ingenious and the shape is novel, which has ancient charm but is not conventional.