This small twisted porcelain bowl has a slightly tapered straight lip, a slightly bunched outer wall along the lower edge, a slanted curved wall, a deep belly, a shallow narrow base with a hidden ring foot, a beveled inner wall, and a slightly convex and uneven center of the foot.
The small bowl is mixed with dark and light-colored tire mud, and is then drawn into shape. The entire body presents geometric patterns, like feathers and waves, which are fine and complex, full of dynamics and ductility, and have a strong decorative effect.
The feet are wrapped with a transparent glaze, the glaze is semi-glossy, and the soles of the feet are scraped and agglomerated.
The carcass is thick and heavy to hold.
Due to the different shrinkage rates of different colored clays at high temperatures, the tires made from them are prone to cracking, so the yield is low and the process requirements are high. However, this small bowl is in good overall condition, which is really rare.
The texture is more like water lines, and if you look at the water lines for a long time, they will just look like that.
However, the water patterns that penetrated deep into the mud tires were naturally not the same texture, which still made Chen Wenzhe feel novel.
He felt that this small bowl was not from the Tang Dynasty, because during the Tang Dynasty, they could not reach such a level of craftsmanship.
The production technology of twisted tire ceramics was one of the unique craftsmanship in Dangyangyu during the Tang Dynasty.
Dangyangyu's twisted porcelain first appeared in the Tang Dynasty. At that time, the twisting technology was not yet mature. Most of the textures of the twisted porcelain were mainly random lines and back lines. The twisting was performed on the surface of porcelain or pottery.
The glaze colors used are mostly low-temperature yellow glaze, green glaze is more common, and the porcelain body white is poor.
By the Northern Song Dynasty, the tire-twisting technology in Dangyangyu was very mature. The tire-twisting technology developed rapidly and the technology became more mature. The whiteness of the porcelain tire was greatly improved, the texture technology was more perfect, and the appearance and appearance were the same.
For example, in the small bowl in front of you, the porcelain body is very white, and there are water lines that penetrate deep into the body. It is very natural and the appearance is the same as the inside.
Such craftsmanship could not be achieved in the Tang Dynasty.
The twisted tire is the perfect combination of ceramic technology and art, which pushes the beauty of form to the extreme in porcelain tire decoration.
It uses the colors of ceramics, carefully conceived by the author, mixed, arranged and combined with white clay or other colored clay to create textures or patterns. The artistic appeal that appears is both real and illusory, which is pleasing to the eye.
Although the small bowl in front of you is small and has no payment or writing, its craftsmanship is very simple.
Without much hesitation, Chen Wenzhe activated the backtracking skill.
Just looking at the picture that appeared on it, Chen Wenzhe breathed a sigh of relief, because he saw someone drinking tea from this small bowl!
Judging from the costumes, they must be craftsmen from the Song Dynasty.
Then, he saw an earthen kiln, also called a firewood kiln. This was the entrance of an earthen kiln that used wood to fire porcelain.
Obviously, this is a kiln that specializes in firing twisted porcelain. Through this small bowl, Chen Wenzhe can easily see the production process of various twisted porcelains.
There are several types of tire twisters: full twist, half twist and partial inlay.
The glaze colors are mostly yellow and green, and some have transparent glaze dots on the carcass decorated with yellow, green, and blue glazes.
Taking the more common tire pillows in tire twisters as an example, two different types of tire soil must first be divided into sheets.
Then they are stacked and rolled together to form a cylinder, and then multiple such cylinders are combined into a whole and arranged into the desired shape, such as a pillow surface, etc.
Then cut it into thin slices, and its cross-section will show a roughly regular pattern with regular shades.
Although the patterns displayed will be different if the cutting angle is changed, such differences cause each piece of twisted porcelain to have different patterns.
To put it simply, twisted porcelain is to knead two different colors or multiple porcelain clays with each other, and then use folding, coiling, cutting and scraping to form various twisted patterns, and then slice and assemble them.
It is pressed and formed by decals, molding, etc., so that the green body can naturally form texture.
Due to the different kneading methods of the clay, the texture also changes endlessly.
The patterns of twisted porcelain can be divided into 16 basic patterns.
There are about ten kinds of texture changes including wheat ear pattern, bird feather pattern, cloud pattern, flowing water pattern and quicksand pattern.
The texture of most twisted tires is mainly random grains and back grains.
After the porcelain is twisted, a layer of transparent glaze needs to be poured on the surface of the body and fired in the kiln to form twisted porcelain.
There are two types of tire manufacturing techniques: "blanking" and "inlaid veneer".
Among them, it also involves the decals just mentioned.
Applique is to roll the flower mud into strips, cut into thin slices, flatten the cross-section, and apply it to the decorative parts of the surface of the vessel. After glazing and firing, it will give the visual sense of blooming flowers.
The manufacturing process of billet molding mainly includes material selection, clay kneading, pattern weaving, shaping, billet trimming, polishing, glazing and other processes.
The manufacturing process of inlaid veneers is slightly different.
The first step is to select the colored clay. After kneading the clay, roll the clay into a uniform height, press the shape through the mold, and then splice and inlay it.
It can be said that through this small bowl, Chen Wenzhe has successfully obtained the complete production process of the entire twisted body porcelain.
At his current level, even without initiating independent inheritance, he can easily realize this kind of craftsmanship, and he can also easily reach a high level of production.
This is the benefit of reaching the master level in porcelain making. Although he has many types of porcelain and has never practiced many techniques, at his level, as long as he knows the making process and practices a little, he can make high-level porcelain.
Seeing this, as Chen Wenzhe expected, the reason why this small tea bowl is so well preserved is that it was buried in the ruins of a firewood kiln.
This could be an accident, or it could be a tragedy.
However, the burial process was very long, and Chen Wenzhe had no desire to continue watching.
You have already got what you deserve, so there is no need...
"Uh!" He still saw some of the last pictures.
That was the scene when it was unearthed. Judging from the clothes of those people, it must have been a long time ago.
It was probably a few decades ago, because at that time, the clothes of Chinese people were relatively simple.
In fact, when Chen Wenzhe picked up this small bowl, he knew that it was not something recently unearthed, and that was fine.
"This is a small twisted porcelain bowl produced in Dangyangyu in the Northern Song Dynasty!"
"If the identification is correct, the achievement value will be increased by one!"
"Fragments of small broken porcelain bowls and twisted porcelain from the Tang Dynasty."
"If the identification is correct, the achievement value will be increased by one!"
"Northern Song Dynasty yellow glaze twisted porcelain flower pillow!"
"If the identification is correct, the achievement value will be increased by one!"
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Chen Wenzhe can be regarded as discovering a bug in the system. He first used the backtracking skill to see the age of things before drawing a conclusion.
At this time, there shouldn’t be an identification error, right?
Is this enough to harvest the system achievement value?
Thinking about it, it seems quite boring. Is this still the fun of identification?
Therefore, Chen Wenzhe just thought about it. He did not think of going back, carefully analyzing what dynasty it was at that time, and then conducting appraisals to obtain achievement points.
In fact, the achievement points are now useful to him. He can use the achievement points to quickly push an unfamiliar skill to the master level.
However, it is useless to say that it is useless. He has not used it for a long time now.