My system is not decent

Chapter 1059

Chrysanthemums are beautiful and colorful. They do not seek to be seductive with their delicate appearance, but they win with their elegance and constancy.

People love it for its delicate charm, and even more for its arrogance that blooms alone in the frost and never falls from the west wind.

Chrysanthemums have always been favored by poets. The ancients especially liked to use flowers to describe themselves and chrysanthemums to show their aspirations, so as to compare their noble sentiments and unyielding perseverance.

Because the chrysanthemum has such a beautiful meaning, the ancients also used the chrysanthemum pattern to make porcelain.

Among them, the most famous type of chrysanthemum is the chrysanthemum plate of the Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties of the Qing Dynasty.

Especially the twelve-color chrysanthemum petal dish made by Emperor Yongzheng, with its exquisite shape, exquisite workmanship and magnificent glaze color, has been praised as a generation of famous products by later generations.

According to records, this set of Yongzheng Twelve Monochromatic Discs was an ingenious and ingenious design when it was researched.

After Yongzheng saw it, he immediately won his favor, and then he ordered the masters in Jingzhen to cooperate together, and then produced a set of twelve color series, a total of forty sets of works to enter the palace.

Here is the key point, even at the level of the official kiln masters in Jingzhen at that time, they needed to work together to make a complete set of twelve colors.

It is not so easy for Chen Wenzhe to perfectly replicate this set of chrysanthemum discs.

Of course, it is not impossible, because the firing records of the forty sets of chrysanthemum discs are fortunately preserved.

It's just that it's not known whether someone fired it again later, and if the firing was unsuccessful.

At this time, Chen Wenzhe was a little bit emotional, not because it was difficult to make a chrysanthemum plate, but because he wanted to make too many classic porcelains, right?
It was originally an imitation of Ru kiln porcelain, but it only imitated some Ru kiln flower cups, so I thought of making famille rose porcelain.

Originally, the pastel porcelain was well made, but suddenly I thought of using carmine glaze. After all, this is a classic glaze, as long as it is used, it can increase the quality of the porcelain and increase the value of the porcelain.

As for the pastel porcelain with carmine glaze, I thought of the chrysanthemum petal plate with carmine pastel glaze.

This time the porcelain is very classic, and Chen Wenzhe wants it all. Now that he thinks about it, he must make it, or he will forget it.

However, after doing this, is there any end?

However, the pink pastel chrysanthemum petal plate is really beautiful.

And with such a plate, wouldn’t the other twelve-color single-color glazed chrysanthemum plates be beautiful?
Thinking of those twelve plates, Chen Wenzhe's heart itch!

At this time, he just finished the work in his hands, and Zhang Gu also made a few chrysanthemum plate embryos.

Waiting to dry is also waiting, Chen Wenzhe simply helped Zhang Gu trim the embryo.

To make a plate thin, it needs to have a tight and solid texture. The production of tire mud is not low.

The tire mud here is all specially made and has passed the standard. Now if you want it to be thin enough to achieve a lustrous finish after glazing, you must do a good job in the process of sharpening the embryo.

After Chen Wenzhe's hands, the embryo of this device has reached the extreme, no matter how thin it is, it will be as thin as paper.

After completing the trimming of several pieces of utensils, the next step is direct glazing.

The difficulty of making this type of plate lies in the glaze color.

This set of twelve plates is definitely a classic of the Yongzheng period, because the entire process of making the chrysanthemum plate is relatively ingenious and in line with the aesthetics of Emperor Yongzheng.

Nian Xiyao, the pottery supervisor at that time, was a very smart person, and he knew exactly what type of porcelain the emperor liked.

In particular, he chose 12 colors to form together, so any one can be said to please the emperor's heart.

Nian Xiyao, the pottery supervisor, was the elder brother of General Nian Gengyao. He was exiled to the frontier because of his younger brother's crimes, but he was arrested by Emperor Yongzheng on the way to burn porcelain.

Guilty and responsible, you can imagine how strong his sense of responsibility for porcelain at that time was.

Therefore, it is natural that a series of high-quality goods have appeared, and the craftsmanship of excellence also exists like uncanny workmanship.

Of the twelve plates, Chen Wenzhe can only make a few kinds now.

Of course, what he made must be a real-level imitation. As for the other things, he couldn't do it, mainly because he had never seen those monochrome glazes, so naturally he didn't know how to mix and match the glaze color.

The single-color glaze of Yongzheng porcelain is classic, and the chrysanthemum plate in the single-color glaze is the pinnacle of it.

Yongzheng single-color glazed porcelain mainly has two parts, one is imitation Song Dynasty, including imitation Ru, imitation official glaze, imitation Ge glaze, imitation Jun glaze, etc.;
The other is colored glaze, and there are many chrysanthemum discs of this type.

Therefore, Chen Wenzhe only wanted to make one colored glaze, and the others were monochromatic glazes.

There are several types that are easier for him to make. In addition to white glaze, yellow glaze, and green glaze, the other better ones must be coral red glaze chrysanthemum petal dishes, and okra green glaze chrysanthemum petal dishes.

Okra green glaze is not difficult to prepare, after all, Chen Wenzhe makes quite a few green glazed porcelains.

The green glazed porcelain can be changed into green glaze with a little change.

He can make a lot of green glazes now. After all, he has made green-glazed lotus leaf-style Taihu Autumn Exercise Cups before, so he has researched green glazes.

It’s just that this time the piece is much bigger, with a height of 3.3 cm, a diameter of 17.5 cm, and a foot diameter of 11.3 cm, which must be basically the same size as the collection of the Forbidden City.

This one belongs to the green color system, and the exact name is okra green!
Yongzheng single-color glazed porcelain has a color system. Generally, there are twelve colors recorded in literature, but each color has a different name according to its depth.

For example, green has green glaze, lake green, light green and okra green.

The single-color glazed chrysanthemum petal dish is clearly recorded in the archives of the Qing palace, and there are detailed records in "The Clearing Files of the Works Made by the Building Office of the Hall of Mental Cultivation".

It not only recorded in detail how many pieces were fired, but mainly what kind of plates they were.

The reason why Chen Wenzhe wanted to imitate such a set of plates was that it was too difficult to collect a set now.

Don't say one thing, even if you collect one, it is an unattainable luxury.

Even for all museums and collections today, it is still difficult to get the same size and twelve colors.

All Chen Wenzhe knew was that the Forbidden City of Shendu managed to get all twelve colors together.

"The set in the Forbidden City may be imitated!"

Thinking of the collection in the Forbidden City, Chen Wenzhe felt that he could create all of them, because he felt that some of the colors in it were not so classic.

It can also be said that the color of the Yongzheng twelve-color monochrome glaze chrysanthemum plate in the Palace Museum is not standard.

For example, green, if it is not okra green, and other lotus leaf greens can also be made into a set, but it is not standard or orthodox.

If it was just a matter of simply making up the twelve colors, Chen Wenzhe would definitely be able to do it. He even said that he could easily make up the twelve colors, but that was unnecessary.

Some of them are easy to make, and the ones he has never done before must be yellow, and the second to last is okra green.

White, red, green, yellow, Chen Wenzhe can all be fired, other colors, at worst, just try it.

It is said that the twelve-color porcelain is the result of trial-fired colors.

(End of this chapter)