My system is not decent

Chapter 1057
Since we want to do something special, we need some special raw materials.

Fortunately, it has been a long time since I came to Nanyue, and Chen Wenzhe has already prepared what should be prepared.

Especially gold, what he lacks most is this thing.

So, after he took some mineral materials, he took some gold powder on purpose.

He planned to use gold to make some porcelain. It turned out that he knew how to use gems and gold to glaze, but he had never done it.

Now that precious stones such as agate are used to make Ru porcelain, gold also needs to be used.

Since the raw materials were valuable, Zhang Gu didn't dare to do it, so Chen Wenzhe had to prepare some glazes himself.

After the configuration was completed, Zhang Gu's eyes were a little dull just looking at the color.

"Carmine?"

"Yes, golden red glaze, also called foreign color, doesn't it have to be difficult? Where there is difficulty, there is a price."

This time, what Chen Wenzhe imitated was a carmine-red rolling famille rose consecrated landscape pattern bowl from the Qing Dynasty "Made by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty".

Carmine glaze, also known as golden red glaze, is named for its color resembling rouge, and it is a glaze color with a royal air.

Such a unique purple-toned red is not very common. This is because gold is added as a colorant when toning, which is expensive and can only be fired in the prosperous age.

The size of this small bowl is not big, it is 4.5cm high and 13.5cm in diameter. Chen Wenzhe made it very carefully, so the finished product is very delicate.

This small bowl has a sloppy mouth, a deep curved wall, and a ring foot.

White glaze is applied inside without decoration, and the outer wall is painted with carmine on the astringent tire as the ground. There are three flower-shaped consecrations, and the consecrations are separated by twig patterns.

The three consecrated interiors are all made of yellow material, and each is painted with a peony flower.

White glaze is applied to the inside of the ring foot, and the four-character square pattern of "Qianlong Yuzhi" in blue regular script script is placed on the outer bottom. There are two frames on the outside, and the frame line is thick outside and thin inside.

The peony is drawn with fine brushwork techniques, which is very realistic.

The peony flower has been painted by Chen Wenzhe. As long as it is a peony flower drawn by him, no matter whether he understands it or not, and has aesthetics or not, it can be seen that it is beautiful.

Even if it hasn't been finished yet, just painting a golden peony makes this small bowl unique.

On the whole, this small bowl is bright in color and excellent in texture.

Don't look at this small bowl, which is not big, but the craftsmanship is very complicated.

After that, several complicated processes are required to be truly completed.

If such a piece of porcelain is genuine, it should be no problem to sell it for seven or eight hundred thousand.

Even if it is an imitation, with the mark of Yi Nian Tang, the price of [-] to [-] should be very easy to sell.

Carmine itself is expensive daimyo porcelain.

The most important thing is that now Chen Wenzhe has more experience in firing carmine porcelain.

To know this kind of craftsmanship, he learned from Qianlong official kiln porcelain.

Moreover, this kind of porcelain still came from Wu Er's side. If there was no porcelain found in his antique studio, Chen Wenzhe really wouldn't be able to make this kind of high-quality porcelain.

This time, what Chen Wenzhe is selling is definitely craftsmanship. Generally speaking, the artistry of a work of art accounts for 70% of the value of the whole object.

The rolling process is complicated, and the burning of carmine is difficult. The combination of the two will definitely lead to a higher price.

Although there was carmine glaze in the late Kangxi period, carmine glaze is not a traditional Chinese glaze, but a glaze introduced by enamel technology.

Due to the high technological content, manual blowing of the glaze is required, and the second firing is required. The process is complicated and cumbersome, which also leads to low yield and no large-scale firing.

It wasn't until the Qianlong period that craftsmen really mastered the technology and used carmine freely.

Many people must have guessed the story that followed.

Once the "wealthy flower in the world" like Emperor Qianlong liked this kind of glaze color, he would spend extravagantly using it on porcelain's color ground, engraving and other decorative techniques at any cost.

This also allows the porcelain of the Carmine Land to win a high price when it comes out.

In 2021, the Fenglaiyi heart-shaped vase made by Emperor Qianlong, which will be the most expensive porcelain in the world with a price of 2.6565 million, uses carmine red brocade patterns on the neck and bottom of the bottle.

And another famous rouge red porcelain is the Qianlong rouge red plum vase with rolling brocade pattern, famille rose and flower pattern, which was auctioned 18 years ago, that is, in 2004, in Xiangjiang Jiangsu Bifuqiu. A high price of 4440 million was paid.

The craftsmanship of the revolving bottle is more complicated. Chen Wenzhe doesn't want to do it now, and he has no time to do it.

There is no need to make a revolving bottle with too simple craftsmanship. If it is too complicated, it will definitely require a lot of craftsmanship and technology. That kind of revolving bottle is too troublesome to make, and it will not be possible to make it in a short time.

Now he is only making the void of Ru porcelain, making some simple porcelain. If he is making a swivel bottle, he can only concentrate on it and not be distracted by other people.

Therefore, he can make a high imitation of Qianlong's carmine plum vase with rolling brocade pattern famille rose and flower patterns. After all, the shape of the plum vase is not complicated, and it is not troublesome to make, mainly because of the craftsmanship on it.

As long as Chen Wenzhe thinks, he can pile up a lot of craftsmanship, whether it is decoration or craftsmanship.

If he doesn't want to, then let's do something simple, just lay the floor and make it out of the way. It's not troublesome at all.

Of course, it would be easier for Chen Wenzhe to break it down into several steps, otherwise he wouldn't do it.

The first step is the carmine ground, then the rolling brocade pattern, and then the pastel, drawing the winding flower pattern.

Chen Wenzhe has done these several times today, and now he is even more familiar with them, and it only takes a little time to complete.

In fact, the difficulty here lies in the preparation of the glaze, and then in the firing of the kiln.

As long as these two key points are done well, a piece of carmine porcelain will be successfully fired.

For the formula of the glaze and the process of firing in the kiln, Chen Wenzhe can't make mistakes.

Therefore, as long as the various processes are completed now, it means that a piece of porcelain nobleman, that is, a vulgar makeup lead powder carmine porcelain is born!
Generally speaking, carmine is pink, but it is very difficult to burn it into pink.

Therefore, the ancients gave it an elegant name-"Carmine" for this kind of porcelain that is difficult to control successfully.

Carmine porcelain is one of the rare "gold-coloured" pinks with purple hues. Because of the gold in the glaze, it is often called "golden red".

This kind of glaze color that makes people feel warm is used on porcelain and is sought after by countless lovers at home and abroad.

And the production cost is also very high, because the main thing is to grind the original ecological gold into powder.

First mix the gold into the glaze and then color the painting, so that the carmine porcelain is made.

Because carmine is "colored with gold", it belongs to low-temperature glazed porcelain, and the heating temperature is controlled at about 800 degrees.

It is made on fired thin-bodied white porcelain, and then baked in a color furnace with an iron coloring agent containing one-ten-thousandth and two-tenths of a gold glaze.

Here I want to focus on the one-ten-thousandth and two-thousandth, because it is one of the keys to controlling the final color.

(End of this chapter)