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Chapter 1058 Yongzheng twelve-color glaze chrysanthemum petal plate

Carmine porcelain, when the gold content in the glaze is [-]/[-], it will have a pink hue;
When the gold content is [-]/[-], it produces a ruby ​​tone.

If the temperature is lowered, a ruby ​​color will appear at certain points.

If the temperature is gradually lowered, the red color will gradually turn purple, and finally turn purple, purple blue, blue, and finally light blue.

Therefore, carmine porcelain is actually a kind of porcelain that is difficult to make.

The most difficult thing is that its coloring is not only related to the composition of the glaze, but also the control of the temperature in the kiln, as well as the influence of atmosphere changes and weather outside the kiln.

These factors can be large or small, but they hold the fate of whether carmine can be successfully fired.

These key technologies all came from several pieces of porcelain that Chen Wenzhe had picked up.

After this period of research, he has thoroughly studied the craftsmanship of those porcelains.

So now that he is making the carmine land, he has the bottom line in mind, and naturally the speed of making it is very fast.

"Boss, the color is hard to control, okay?" Zhang Gu asked.

"It's okay. Gold powder, firing temperature, etc. all have an impact on the color. You have to be willing to learn it. When you go into the kiln for firing, you can follow suit. For this kind of gold glaze firing, when and what must be achieved?" What temperature is important, there is nothing wrong with it, if it is wrong, you don’t know what the color will be when it is fired.”

"Can this plum vase be made into ruby ​​red?"

Looking at Chen Wenzhe, Zhang Gu was still a little puzzled.

After all, Chen Wenzhe is too confident, right?If he was an outsider, he would not doubt anything just because of Chen Wenzhe's reputation.

However, he is an expert after all, and only an expert will know how difficult it is to make rouge red porcelain.

"I can handle the raw materials well. When it is fired, I will tell you some key points. As long as you understand those, you should be able to control the color."

Seeing that Zhang Gu has mentioned the key points, he is also very clear about the difficulties of firing carmine porcelain, so Chen Wenzhe doesn't mind teaching him more.

The most fearful thing about teaching others to pass on is that he doesn't even know where the key points are.

"You make another chrysanthemum plate. I suddenly remembered that a pink chrysanthemum plate from the Yongzheng period seems very beautiful and classic. Now that it has been fired, I will burn a few more pieces at once."

"Okay, I've also heard about that chrysanthemum plate!"

As expected, Zhang Gu was very familiar with the porcelains of the Three Dynasties of the Qing Dynasty. When Chen Wenzhe mentioned it a little, he knew what he was talking about.

The rouge red porcelain in the Yongzheng period had already been fired very maturely. After all, those who knew a little about Emperor Yongzheng knew that he was an emperor who preferred pink, and one or two can be seen from pastels.

The carmine-glazed chrysanthemum dish mentioned by Chen Wenzhe was also fired during this period.

From the appearance, the porcelain looks like a blooming chrysanthemum petal, and its shape is like a plate, so it is called a chrysanthemum plate.

The names given by the ancients are more appropriate to the real objects, but this is also convenient for us to recognize.

This piece of porcelain, the entire body is colored with carmine glaze, the arc wall is very shallow, the petals on the wall are evenly distributed in size, the carcass is fine and firm, the carcass is thin, shiny and translucent.

Therefore, this piece of porcelain is only an embryo, and it is still difficult to make it.

Now that Chen Wenzhe is free to make a move, it is also a test for Zhang Gu, to see how his real skills are.

The plate is easy to make, but the chrysanthemum plate is a bit more difficult. If it is a Yongzheng chrysanthemum plate, the difficulty is even higher.

However, it seems that Zhang Gu is doing pretty well now. Although the speed is a bit slower, he does it fairly smoothly.

The chrysanthemum plate is one of the plate types. Because the body of the plate is chrysanthemum-shaped, it must be much more difficult to make than ordinary plates.

It is good if it can be made, and it is good if the shape of the device can be made neatly.

If the carcass can be fine and firm, the carcass is thin, shiny and translucent, then it is a master.

While Chen Wenzhe was doing his own thing, he watched Zhang Gu do it, but he didn't expect him to do it really well.

Although it is still a little short of the thin, firm, fine, and translucent Yongzheng official kilns, this already belongs to the technology of refining clay and sharpening embryos.

Although Zhang Gu has solid basic skills, he is still far behind Chen Wenzhe who can reach the master level in all processes.

Now that the school is fully tested, some of his shortcomings are beginning to be exposed.

However, as long as these things are done a lot, one day they will improve.

Just like this time, Zhang Gu made thirty-six pieces at one time, obviously it should be a set of twelve pieces, and a total of three sets were made.

Just from this point, it can be seen that Zhang Gu really understands the chrysanthemum plate, and even more understands the Yongzheng chrysanthemum plate!

The chrysanthemum petal plate was fired in the Song Ge Kiln, Jinding Kiln, and Yuan Longquan Kiln, but it became more popular in the Yongzheng Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty.

This kind of porcelain is often made of pastels and monochrome glazes. According to the archives of the Manufacturing Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Qing Dynasty, in the eleventh year of Yongzheng (1733), it was ordered to burn [-] pieces of chrysanthemum-shaped plates with twelve kinds of color axes.

Among the emperor's aesthetics throughout the Qing Dynasty, things in the Yongzheng period emphasized a subtle beauty.

Especially the porcelain of the entire dynasty at that time is now being compared by collectors with those of the Qianlong period.

It can also be seen from this that the porcelain of the Yongzheng Dynasty is not worse than that of the Qianlong Dynasty.

Nowadays, some people like Qianlong porcelain, because it is gorgeous and beautiful enough.

Moreover, the production level has reached an unprecedented state. Every treasure that came out of the Qianlong period is very beautiful, revealing a kind of aura of wealth.

But many professional collectors are particularly fond of antique porcelain from the Yongzheng period.

Many professionals describe it like this: Porcelain in the Song Dynasty pays attention to the subtle beauty, and the restrained character is fully reflected in the porcelain.

In the Qing Dynasty, Yongzheng porcelain was the closest representative of Song Dynasty porcelain, and the degree of imitation was also well received by everyone.

The chrysanthemum petal plate specially ordered by Yongzheng, a set of plates is composed of 12 colors of porcelain in total, the production level is extremely high, and it belongs to the high-quality goods ordered by the emperor in the official kiln.

In the records of the entire history, a total of 40 sets of chrysanthemum plates ordered by Yongzheng were fired.

Now that these 40 sets have been circulated all over the world, it is difficult to collect several full sets of 12 discs.

The "Twelve-color Glazed Chrysanthemum Petal Plate" from the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty has a unique and beautiful shape, which is more in line with the aesthetics of the ancients at that time.

From the point of view at that time, the chrysanthemum plate is undoubtedly the most famous and most praised work by later generations.

It is well-made and has a historical background of antique culture, as well as well-documented, so this set of plates is naturally a high-priced transaction.

Today, the estimated value exceeds 1500 million, and it is showing a trend of increasing year by year.

This kind of price is very common in porcelain, but it is very rare in plates, especially monochrome glaze plates.

Twelve colors, each with its own unique beauty.

Combined into a set, there are only forty pieces of each variety.

Such a complete set of porcelain is very rare in the entire [-]-year history of China.

(End of this chapter)