China Pottery Ceramic

We Chinese, is a country with glorious history of five thousand years of national, cultural deep Han Yun, longer than Ji Yu Xing, on the physical world, human internal unprecedented texts of the Department, has a special sensitivity and association. The ceramic culture in the long river of human history is also the ideology of a brilliant wonderful work. From the original rough pottery. The development of the green shadow of the Song Dynasty sculpture, painting from a simple line drawing. To the color of the fullness of pile. From the simple plot depicts, spiritual sustenance to the literati. Describe feelings of Art. Today’s ceramic culture has very delicate to express the cultural landscape, where different models, with the multitude of ceramic culture, is also deeply impressed with all of the times, the human spirit in all of history.

A ceramic culture bird poetry feelings.

It goes without saying, ceramics loved flowers and birds are the natural aesthetic image of the people, is among the most beautiful natural part of the aesthetic value of one, “Huaxiangniaoyu” environment, is undoubtedly desirable that people ideal living environment. Flowers blooming season, is one the most pleasant season. Beauty is a human endowment. Ceramic bird in a show of beauty, emotions and describe.

“Raw water cooler after the rain the occasion of the lotus faces of the people, the remote similarity. Seeing Hongfang still hold core, the new thicket closed lotus” This is the Song Yan, “Butterfly in Love” in the sentence, I have seen a vase, which is the subject of painting Swaying lotus, distant and looked into the Song of the dream seems that fresh Cuiye lotus leaf after the rain, then careful care of drunk red petals with a yellowish gold core , careful observation, it has been full of lotus quietly fell asleep in it. What a beautiful conception of literature that outlines the dotted seem to mind the desire for language, emotion sealing meanders like a quiet, gentle breeze, thoughts in the face of enemies, like Fen Fang flower set off in the eyes, time water , breathless across the memory.

Ceramic bird in a very wide range of literary topics, “Do not people praise the color is good, leaving only the clear air over heaven and earth” is a tranquil and lofty lyrical mood. But more important also to reflect the true natural beauty have been there, this is not a time, society, religion and the eternal distinction between literary art. Flowers such as Peacock Pheasant, like bees, ants small, lightly like butterflies dragonflies, subtleties such as the tadpole fish, Wealthy the peony, loud the clean rocks; look all that singing poetic painting ceramics.

Second, ceramic culture embodies the literary heritage theme portraits.

Today’s ceramic decorative figure subjects are very broad, Buddhas from Qingzhou Jun-Jie Wang Dynasty, Su Shi figures, Manhattan Ascot, Qi Luo ladies, Civic hybrid flow, women and children and other children at play everywhere the text of the story shines with prints. The historical text “Three Kingdoms” in Kuan, that Xiaganyidan, loyal and brave stalwart image was painted on a variety-type of ceramic. “Journey to the West” in the Sun Walker unpredictable, fire eye Venus, Jiang Yao slayer’s story is also the language people use a variety of ceramic communication with each other, communicate with relish. Today’s ceramic figure of literature deeply rooted in the fertile soil of the Chinese nation, and as the carrier of Chinese traditional liberal ideology, Confucianism, Taoism, Zen philosophy is three constitute the cornerstone of literary and artistic ceramics.

“Li Bai Sheng Zhou would like to line the shore riding Juventa song. Taohua Tan thousand feet deep, not as Wang Lun, I love.” This is the famous master painter Mr. Wang Xiliang ceramic plate in a Fen Caici poetic expression of the painting, a touch of ink, a quiet lake, ride a float singing in the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai of the hearts of the friends, the sincere friendship, and this has to go the distance still feeling dismay, overflow in the hands of a bow that among the silent expression.

3, ceramic painting in the wonderful state of the literature demonstrates.

The history of landscape painting in China occupies a very important position, according to “History of Painting,” contained in the Three Kingdoms period, Ms. Sun Quan Zhao, “can write Kyushu lakes, mountain trend” should say that this is the first landscape painting in Chinese history was. The Tang Dynasty, due to political openness, economic development, social stability, so that landscape into a period of prosperity. By the Song Dynasty, it reached an unprecedented peak times. Formed by Li Cheng, Fan Kuan and Guo Xi strong headed male, tall and straight and the North sent to Dong Yuan, Ju Ran-led “light ink Lan,” the Southern School.

The earliest ceramics in the Yuan Dynasty landscape painting by the simple blue and white depiction of the development to the early Qing Dynasty to the Republic of literati painting, such as the late Qing Xianfeng, Tongzhi era, came to the door-way Anhui literati painters Jingdezhen, the Qianjiang porcelain painting techniques used in painting, but also created paintings in the literary atmosphere of the performance of the ceramic landscape precedent. Pearl Mountain Jingdezhen in the history of eight friends, there is some painting in ceramic pigments, which express the mood has inherited thousands of years of Chinese landscape painting tradition of excellence.

Modern ceramic painting in very broad subject matter that depicts the elegance of classical literature in indifferent mood, but also forceful chapter depicting the desert northwest, there are small bridges describe someone’s style, also praised the simplicity of the folk scene, like poetry, like prose, also seems like a literary novel are mine.

“Snow also Clipsal rain also odd, affordable total cash Yihe, in white and silver the most rare and advised looking over the southern monarch.” This is the king of self-taught landscape painters of modern verse, same can also be used to describe me 1 Snow landscape artists of the old conception of literary praise.

“This business relationships, the number of friendship, how to do business. Ordinary people to play a general lack of channels of porcelain, as in Qingshuitang good porcelain will not put out. Only got to know each boss, you have probably from his where to get good things, most people have ignored their arguments. “love porcelain collection, Mr. Zhou told reporters do porcelain collection, fight not only the vision, capital, and also a network of resources.

Price is very strange reality is cruel

30-year-old Mr. Tang is a nine to five office workers, but also the letter of the porcelain enthusiasts, Hunan art market, Qingshuitang, Hunan Antique often can see his shadow. According to him, now growing contingent of porcelain, collecting more and more objects, in the past not very valuable Changsha kiln, fired up the last few years, even the tiles have one collection, not to mention blue and white Yuan the. Some kiln out of the old tiles, is a treasure in the eyes of collectors.

“The price is very strange antiques, buy and sell it to where often determines the transaction price.” Tang told reporters antique enthusiasts, a fan used in the vase, to 25,000 yuan, a Tibetan friends to start, not to two years, to 80,000 yuan sold to a circle. Later, the only vase “drift” to Beijing, what worth to 30 million, this “Man asking price” of the well known in the circle. Chow’s friend Fang contact with porcelain collection for 18 years. In 2003, he spent over 4,000 yuan to buy a piece of red Liling porcelain vase, a year later the price of more than 8000 yuan, and such a good price to sell loss he said, and “a clear early in the kiln, the top has Ipomoea Long , shows that glaze, and I have more than 2000 yuan in 2002 to buy, sell more than 8000 yuan a year later, the results offer an expert behind the bit to buy more than 20 million. “thing a few years later, Fang still bear a grudge, not because there is no question price and sell it themselves and the fine pass.

Despite the lucrative, but Fang just started to remind investors, “imitation products on the market too much, a great impact on the real thing. The market is cruel, who have eyes to go, I’ve seen get ruined after fake , and ask yourself before admission is not have this tolerance. ”

Vision of funds to be more toxic

It is understood that the market’s most in fashion is the Ming and Qing Dynasty porcelain, they are also investors in the most rare goal. Qing Emperor Qianlong Blue and White’s first floral flower pot cloud dragon ears flat to a record 39.86 million dollar contract myth, after the Qianlong kiln “blue-red color with Dragon Ruyi ear gourd bottle” to hit 83.44 million yuan turnover of domestic porcelain auction record.

Wang boss Qingshuitang porcelain shop opened nearly 10 years, he said investment in order to appreciate true porcelain, but have seen the truth. To this end, he also gave investors “Nine word mantra”: off age, knowledge kilns, set the market. Broken kiln’s and associated knowledge, such as the Song dynasty porcelain is relatively simple, artistic value lower. Yuan Dynasty blue and white porcelain began to appear, has been popular these days, but because of age-old war and spread very little. The market’s most in fashion is the Ming Dynasty porcelain, each period, each different style kilns. Light off age, knowledge kilns does not work, only some genuine heritage value, not market value.

Wang said the boss, porcelain collection threshold is high. Have theories, practices, should have the economic capacity. Only buy do not look, buy and white buy; just go window shopping, learned very limited. Must be hands-on, or buy buy the wrong, it may be awakened through Dabeitaixi.

On the hundreds of million for the sale of old porcelain, very important to distinguish between true and false. He said he would name the collector told reporters that the line has always had “real thing does not make money, fake food for half a year” argument. In this regard, Mr. Fang is the recognized players in the circle, claiming to be “long illness into treatment” he said, a porcelain-type, painters, paint, porcelain body, enamel and so affect the value of its collection, authenticity of the mill marks are very natural, radial, and do the old fake goods, the marks are generally in one direction, and the emergence into existence of discrete pieces into.

All find a way out against counterfeit

Weekday Tang is the greatest pleasure and a group of like-minded enthusiasts to share information on porcelain. Circle who start the baby, who shot to sell a good price, in this small group quickly spread out.

“Possession of this line of porcelain, 100% of people bought fake, 100% of people are heartbroken over, no one does not take the eye, and everyone ate loss, because too many fakes.” Tang’s experience is due to a teacher, “porcelain collection, there are many things to learn with experienced teachers. touched the porcelain heart, eyes can be more personal fortune telling, but by looking at other people’s collections, but also followed a long exposure.”

And Tang, “joined team” against counterfeiting is different, some porcelain collectors will not go on fighting, but fought it easier to identify new porcelain, ceramic, such as the Cultural Revolution. In recent years, the Cultural Revolution Porcelain prices soaring. In early 2003, a 100-cm statue of Chairman Mao and the tunic of the body, transaction prices between 3000 to 4000 yuan. The end of 2004, then rose to around 6000 to 7000 yuan. By October 2005, the price suddenly rose to 18,000 yuan. Su boss 90 from the last century started collecting teapots during the Cultural Revolution, 5 years ago to open a red collection Qingshuitang shop. “During the Cultural Revolution like me teapot, received 10 years, prices have gone up 10 times.”

Painted porcelain enamel porcelain is the most famous varieties of porcelain technology development in China to the Qing Dynasty Emperor Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong of the product peak. Because of its firing and was only a small number of secret play the emperor, it was extremely valuable.

Enamel porcelain enamel and fired in
Enamel is also called “brush Boy” and “Buddha Boy” and “bluing” is a glass-based material. It feldspar, quartz as the main raw material, addition of soda ash and borax as flux, titanium oxide, antimony oxide, fluoride, etc., as emulsifying agent, adding copper oxide, cobalt oxide, iron oxide, manganese oxide, antimony oxide for coloring agent, after grinding, mixing, calcining, melting, be dumped into the water quench enamel frit, and then by fine grinding and by enamel powder. Will reconcile the enamel powder, the coating applied in gold, silver, copper and other metal devices, upon calcination, will become a metal tire enamel. If glass tire, then known as the glass fetal enamel; to porcelain child who is known as the porcelain body enamel.

Process according to different decoration, metal can be divided into fetal enamel cloisonne enamel, engraving fetal enamel, painted enamel, transparent enamel, etc., but also to the two or combine two or more craft a common decorative objects, known as compound enamel. One with the porcelain enamel process the only one that painted enamel, are called “enamel”, its official name should be “enamel painted porcelain body.” As for the so called “Gu Yue Xuan”, the current in the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong porcelain enamel during the Department of Cikuan who never found, and in the late Qing enamel painting on glass, tires are Cikuan see individual persons, so speculation is likely to be the possession of the palace during the late Qing Department “Gu Yue Xuan” section of glass painted enamel dispersed after the eviction of birth, was an antique dealer to see, then mistaken for enamel painting on porcelain body is also the department, “Gu Yue Xuan,” article , then the porcelain body painting enamel called “Gu Yue Xuan.”

Painted enamel porcelain body creator burning, and the Kangxi Emperor’s favorite painting is closely related to enamel. Kangxi 19 years (1680), the court near the palace in the Forbidden City as enamel, mainly produces copper cloisonne enamel and chisel fetal fetal enamel. Two years of Kangxi (1683), the Qing government recovered Taiwan and the abolition of ban on maritime trade, the European tire painted enamel metal as precious souvenirs, brought by the missionaries in Guangzhou, hand Gongnei Ting. Imports, enamel painting of these devices with its fine decorative painting techniques and beautiful style, and popular European nobles and local officials in Guangzhou and a favorite concubine of soil. When the European missionaries from the private letters that, Kangxi Emperor also interested in such a foreign thing, and try to make China’s enamel craftsmen to master this technology, so the inner court of Guangzhou and Beijing respectively enamel artisans made two test burn painted enamel, after about 10 years, China has successfully fired a metal tire painted enamel. Kangxi 50 years (in 1716) since, with Guangzhou and European artisans painted enamel production into the inner court, guiding Office was involved in the production of enamel and even hands-on, painted enamel thus rendering the production of prosperity. Kangxi 50 years, Yang Lin recommended by the governor of Guangzhou, Guangdong painted enamel artisans Pan Chun, YANG Shi Zhang, and has three Westerners, French blue (enamel) Carpenter 2, disciples 2, into the inner court. Kangxi 50 years, played the palace enamel for quasi-reclassify Hall of Mental Cultivation, additional supervision of a person, showing Emperor Kangxi of the enamel production attention. Fifty-eight Kangxi (1719), Chen Chung-called French artists painted enamel painted enamel guide to the inner court of production. The joint efforts of Chinese and foreign craftsmen, enamel Office was for the court quickly mastered the technology of metal tire painted enamel firing, and firing Zaochu large number of rich flavor court painted enamel metal child. Meanwhile, the Construction Section of enamel to also try to transplant to the porcelain body on this technique, so they had a porcelain body painted enamel, term of the present one called “enamel.”

Hongwu of Ming Dynasty, the official opening in Jingdezhen, “Royal Arsenal,” 亦名 “imperial kiln factory”, specifically for the manufacture of imperial porcelain palace. Jiangxi Jingdezhen was under Fuliang County, near the all-chang, Fuzhou, Harvest, Leping, boyang counties Jingdezhen porcelain workers start to hear “the imperial kiln plant,” the news, have gathered in Jingdezhen, in which all Chang, Fuzhou ceramic workers for the most. Royal Porcelain demanding, difficult to manufacture large, all elected to the “imperial kiln factory” in a number of porcelain craft ceramic works are superb craftsmen, by the hands of their produce is a delicate matter to imperial porcelain of high quality goods are “fair, Kowloon Cup “is one of them.

According to legend, when the Academies of the magistrate to please the emperor, won the Emperor’s appreciation, instruction, “the imperial kiln factory” system within six months of porcelain work out a “Kowloon Cup” tribute to the emperor, good is rewarded, bad is punished . Command is issued, the county master producer himself. As the “Kowloon Cup” of manufacturing is difficult, time was short, porcelain works were all anxious spook. They prayed and development, give full play to everyone’s intelligence, after more than three months, dozens of trial and error, and finally succeeded. See a refined “Kowloon Cup”, the county magistrate joyfully, in person at full speed to the “Kowloon Cup” sent to Beijing, tribute to the emperor. Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuan Zhang Fuliang magistrate looked into Chen’s artistic treasures “Kowloon Cup”, put it down, he kept praise Jingdezhen porcelain skilled workers, praised Jingdezhen porcelain worthy of the title. Fuliang magistrate active as tribute, has been appreciated by the emperor and soon official promotion promotion, promotion for the government units by the magistrate.

Emperor by the “Kowloon Cup”, they often use this treasure, please text Wutai Chen Sheng feast. At a banquet, Emperor Hongwu of the Secretary of State intends to award a number of confidants drink a little wine, we deliberately add them to Mikimoto very full, while others like blunt plain speaking usually good advice of the Minister of alcohol screening will be shallow of. This did not happen, it was the Emperor intends to take care of some ministers did not drink some wine, Mikimoto all from the “Kowloon Cup” at the bottom of light leakage, while all other ministers of the emperor happily drink gift of Mikimoto. This emperor was very puzzled, reason, realized that this cup of wine in the most fair, the wine in can only shallow, not too full, otherwise, the cup of wine will all be missed, not a drop left.

In order to remember the “Kowloon Cup” of justice, Hongwu emperor set “Kowloon Cup” named “Kowloon justice Cup.” Contentment by water storage, water every greedy person. “Kowloon fair cup,” the story to tell people things we need to ensure fair, man can not be greedy.