The palace bowl has a delicate and straight shape, with the mouth turned outward and the belly deep and wide.
By the time of Zhengde, the production was more standardized and it became the best porcelain in this period.
Only bowls with a heavy and practical appearance can be called "palace bowls". This beautiful shape was used throughout almost the entire Ming Dynasty, and the exquisite ones are really exquisite.
The blue and white porcelain of the Ming Dynasty was unprecedented, so naturally Chen Wenzhe would not make anything else but blue and white porcelain.
Different blue and white cobalt materials from different eras can be well adapted to various themes of domestic paintings.
Blue and white porcelain paintings use traditional brushes to complete the drawings with various lines and dots.
In this way, the fine changes in lines, the rapid and slow alternation of brush strokes, the difference in light and heavy dyeing and the consistent shades of rendering make the pictures composed of a single green material either elegant and peaceful or rich and powerful.
The shape, decoration and brushwork are harmoniously combined to form the unique charm of Chinese blue and white porcelain, which has attracted the attention of countless people around the world.
Since it is to be made, it is natural to make it of the highest quality, so the blue and white porcelain with twining branches and chrysanthemum pattern in front of me is exquisitely repaired, the carcass is very thin, and the shape is exquisite and regular.
It uses domestically produced Pingping green cobalt material, which looks elegant and beautiful.
If this bowl is successfully fired, the texture of the bowl will definitely be delicate and white, with a flesh-red color visible through light.
Antiques of this level, especially the blue and white palace bowls of the Ming Dynasty, are already a needle in a haystack in the current collectibles market, and it is even more difficult to find one.
After making a batch of palace bowls, Chen Wenzhe felt a little tired of aesthetics.
Bowls appeared very early in history and come in various types.
Since you don’t want to make a palace bowl, then you can buy something special, such as a water purification bowl, which is also a form of bowl.
Generally, they have a wide mouth, a wide and round lower abdomen, and round feet, and some have pie-shaped feet or high feet.
It was most popular in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. This type of bowl was displayed on the desk to worship gods.
This kind of bowl is special enough, but if you want to talk about something even more special, it is the Kongming Bowl.
This kind of bowl is also called a Zhuge bowl. Its biggest feature is that it is made of two bowls glued up and down. There is an empty space in the middle of the two bowls. There is a round hole connecting the bottom of the outer bowl. People nicknamed it because of this "hole"
It is called "Kongming Bowl".
The method of making this kind of bowl is a little more complicated, but that's about it.
Now that I've done it, I need to make at least one pair, and if it's a set, I need at least eight or ten.
It was too troublesome to give up, so Chen Wenzhe made a pair.
With this time, he might as well make a few more styles. You know, Chen Wenzhe can think of quite a few bowl shapes throughout the ages.
For example, a bowl, a bamboo hat bowl, an injection bowl, etc.
The pouring bowl is a wine-warming vessel that is used in conjunction with the pouring bowl.
Generally, the wall of the bowl is straight and deep, and the body is in the shape of a lotus. When using, put an appropriate amount of hot water in the bowl, and put the wine in the bowl.
There are also some more special ones, such as the bent-waist bowl and the Kuang bowl.
The bent-waist bowl first appeared in the Tang Dynasty and became popular in the mid-Yuan Dynasty. It is named after the curved waist.
The Kuiwan bowl is a small blue-and-white bowl unearthed from tombs in the Ming Dynasty. It was commonly seen in the late Ming Dynasty. The craftsmanship is rough and the painting is bold and unrestrained. It mostly depicts landscapes, flowers and birds, plums, bamboos, fruits and vegetables, etc.
These bowls are generally very simple to make, only some special shapes are a little more troublesome.
These types of utensils, when classified, are generally round utensils.
Round ware refers to dishes, bowls, cups, saucers, etc. that can be drawn into shape on a pottery wheel.
Jingzhen kiln makes round utensils in two parts: large ones, one to two or three feet tall, and small ones, small ones below one foot.
In addition to round ware, there are cutter ware, which refers to utensils that cannot be drawn and formed in one go on a wheel.
The craftsmanship industry began in the Ming Dynasty, and its products were called stamping ware in the Ming Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, they were renamed polished wares.
Such as bottles, statues, jars, etc.
I have made a lot of simple round utensils, and now I definitely want to make a round utensil.
Thinking that Zheng Yu's restaurant was about to officially open, Chen Wenzhe wanted to give him a gift.
Because when his Yi Nian Tang opened, people also gave him gifts.
It's just that the gifts were cobbled together, just something to attract wealth, and Chen Wenzhe never paid much attention to them.
It's different now. They both have some financial foundation, and he owes Zheng Yu some favors. This time, he needs to pay more attention to it.
So, after just thinking about it for a moment, Chen Wenzhe thought of the incense burner.
When I first activated the Sui Marquis Pearl, the first thing I identified was a string of agarwood bracelets. That thing was bought by Zheng Yu, a member of the Wenxiang Society and an arty and shameless person.
This may be too much to say, after all, there are not only beauties with petty bourgeoisie sentiments in Wenxiang Club, but also many tough men.
Well, the thoughts and purposes of those macho men joining the society are a bit impure.
No matter what the reason is, they are all arty people anyway, and Zheng Yu is no exception.
Therefore, it should be appropriate to give an incense burner as a gift!
There are many kinds of incense burners, and the one that Chen Wenzhe is more familiar with is their famous Daqilu Boshan burner!
Boshan stove, also known as Boshan incense burner, Boshan incense burner, Boshan incense burner and other names, was a common instrument used by Han people to burn incense during the Han and Jin dynasties.
The most common ones are bronzes and ceramics. The furnace body is in the shape of a bean in bronze, with a cover on it. The cover is high and pointed, hollowed out, in the shape of a mountain, with overlapping mountain shapes. There are birds and animals carved in it, symbolizing the legendary fairy mountain on the sea - Boshan.
It got its name from the popular legend in the Han Dynasty that there were three fairy mountains on the sea: Penglai, Boshan and Yingzhou.
It may seem like the process is very complicated, but actually it's very simple, just a tray underneath or a larger flat plate will suffice.
Add a tall cup to the flat plate, with the foot taller and the cup slightly larger.
At this time, the most important thing comes. The cup needs to be covered with a lid. This lid is not simple. You can make it as troublesome as you want.
The mountain tops, hollows, overlapping mountain shapes, burning harps and animals, etc. mentioned just now can all be made on the top cover.
If you do it well, when the spices are burned in the furnace, the smoke will emit from the hollow mountain shape, and it will be like a fairy spirit, giving people the feeling of being in a fairyland.
This is the special thing about the Boshan furnace, so if you want to make the wonderland more beautiful, the lid on it must be special!
Chen Wenzhe had already made a lot of trays and goblets, so it was naturally not difficult.
The slightly more difficult part is the carving of the cover, which is a piece of cake for Chen Wenzhe.
Therefore, it only took him a few minutes to complete the four embryos.
The next step was carving. I was afraid of burning it, so I made four pieces.
When it comes to carving, naturally each piece is different, but overall it’s still Sanxian Mountain.
As for the birds and animals, just a little bit of appearance is enough, so Chen Wenzhe directly added dragon patterns, phoenix patterns, plus Taotie patterns and Pixiu patterns.
The dragon and phoenix pattern symbolizes luxury, and the gluttonous pattern symbolizes gourmet food. It is also suitable to be placed in a restaurant.
As for Pixiu, needless to say? It can only go in but not out, so it naturally gathers wealth!
Three of these four incense burners were created by Chen Wenzhe, and the dragon pattern burner inside was borrowed from him.