My system is not decent

Chapter 1099
This type of general jar is named for its beaded top cover, which looks like a general's helmet.

Many general jars that are usually seen have no lids, so their value is greatly reduced.

The general jars we know now began in the Jiajing and Wanli years of the Ming Dynasty, and were basically finalized in the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, and the Kangxi period was the most popular.

This is also the reason why the age of many general jars must be dated back to the Kangxi period.

This kind of jar has a straight mouth, plump shoulders, flattened belly, a flat sand bottom, and a high round lid with a pearl top.

The most common are blue-and-white bird-and-flower general jars, and multicolored wares. In addition, there are yellow glaze, purple glaze with eggplant skin, and three-color wares.

The general jars we know now, as long as they are blue and white, multi-colored, bucket-colored and enamel-colored, these precious porcelains have become a kind of ornamental vessel, not a practical one.

If it is still a practical device, then it can only be used as an urn, isn't it subverting people's three views?

Who would have thought that the highly sought-after General Jar could actually be a ghost artifact, something similar to an urn.

In fact, there is no need to be afraid, because the world likes general jars, so after a long time, the use of general jars has gradually evolved into an ornamental device.

When the general jar was in the Han Dynasty, some people said that it was a kind of prize similar to today's trophy specially made by the Holy Majesty for the general who returned to the court after victory.

However, until the Ming Dynasty, the official kilns of the Ming Dynasty specialized in making general jars, which were supplied to the imperial court as gifts to generals, while the gifts of civil servants were mainly the Four Treasures of the Study.

In the Qing Dynasty, ordinary officials in Kyoto used it to hold gold, silver, soft and beloved things.

Officials who believe in Buddhism are used to store Buddhist beads and so on.

In the past, there was a superstitious saying that the general jar would bring official luck, wealth and auspiciousness, which is also an important reason for the popularity of the general jar.

In addition to the general jar, some other artifacts can also exceed your expectations.

For example, stoves, multi-corner bottles, multi-tube bottles, refuge bottles, lotus statues, etc., were very common in ancient times.

Of course, the closer we are, the less common they are, but they all serve the same purpose.

This was an accident, and Chen Wenzhi got some knowledge that was not commonly used by accident.

It turned out that he had made multi-tube bottles and multi-corner bottles. He really didn't expect that these could also be used as urns.

Therefore, in the antique market, not all antiques can be used for collection.

Shaking his head, Chen Wenzhe wasn't thinking about these necromancers.

In fact, think about it, if he wants to sort out the production and development of various glaze colors from ancient times to the present, he really can't avoid the underworld.

If you can't avoid it, don't avoid it.

So Tang Sancai can be made openly, and the first thing to make is Tang Sancai general jar!
After that, you can also make some pastels, multicolored, and even Tianzi jars.

Tianzi jars are treasures of Chinese ceramic art. This kind of jars have different shapes and sizes. The big ones are like wine jars, with big mouths, short necks, round shoulders, convergent abdomen, large bottoms, and the word "Tian" written on the bottom with cobalt materials. .

The body of the vessel is painted with landscape patterns, the painting is vivid, and the quality is the best during the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty.

The Tianzi pot is the most famous variety in Chenghua Doucai, and a Tian character is written on the bottom of the pot as the base payment.

In the Qing archives, it is written as "Chengyao Tianzi jar". Tianzi jar is porcelain for imperial use.

Why is the bottom of the Tianzi jar written as Tianzi?There are many kinds of speculation.

Generally speaking, it is still based on the way of arranging documents in the past. According to the opening chapter of "Thousand Characters", it is "the world is mysterious and yellow, and the universe is prehistoric".

So we often say "Tianzi No. [-]", that's how it came about.

Tianzi jars have always been synonymous with sky-high prices, and it is not difficult to make Tianzi jars if they can be made into the shape of general jars.

As for the fighting color, Chen Wenzhe has studied it very clearly now, if it can be made into a Hua Doucai chicken bowl cup, then it can be made into a Huatian character jar.

Of course, it is better to make Tang Sancai first.

Tang Sancai is pottery, which is easier to fire than porcelain, so the difficulty lies in various strange shapes and glaze colors.

This is a low-temperature glazed pottery popular in the Tang Dynasty. The glaze colors include yellow, green, white, brown, blue, black and other colors.

The main colors are yellow, green and white, so people are used to calling them "Tang Sancai".

Chen Wenzhe has studied the glaze color very clearly, not to mention green, but yellow and white, Chen Wenzhe must have done a good job.

Therefore, the only difficulty in making Tang Sancai is the shape of the vessel.

In fact, strictly speaking, Tang Sancai can be regarded as painted sculptures, and Chen Wenzhe is also very good at this point.

He has learned the techniques of clay figurine Zhang and can also sculpt, and he has also learned the sculpture skills of imitating He Chaozong.

The combination of all these made Chen Wenzhe's process of making Tang Sancai extremely smooth.

The only thing that restricts him now is that Tang Sancai has too many types and is too complicated. It is really difficult for him to imitate them all.

There are many types of utensils, various glaze colors, and strong characteristics of the times. These are the three difficulties that Chen Wenzhe summed up.

First of all, let’s talk about glaze color. Tang Sancai is a general term for pottery excavated from Tang tombs. Later scholars regarded it as a term in the classification of ceramics.

Although Tang Sancai is called Sancai, it does not refer specifically to those three colors.

On all kinds of pottery figurines, pottery statues, and other pottery excavated from Tang tombs, some have only single-color or two-color, and there are many utensils, but they have more complex and colorful colors.

Generally speaking, in addition to the white ground of the carcass, the three colors of lead yellow, green and blue are the most common.

In terms of the three-color blending technique, it is also the most artistic.

Besides the types of utensils, Tang Sancai has fewer utensils, but more ponies, small livestock, and small poultry.

All of them are rich in artistic conception, especially the pottery figurines of various characters and the heads of supernatural images, which have the most artistic value.

The three-color ware is showing the utensils used in various practical life in the Tang Dynasty, and among these utensils, it fully presents the form of social life at that time.

From this, we know that the shape and quantity of the sacrificial objects and other artifacts are determined according to the official rank and family size of the burial person during his lifetime.

For example, in the making of Ming ware in the Tang Dynasty, there are ninety things above the third grade, sixty things above the fifth grade, and forty things above the ninth grade.

The stand-up puppet is one foot tall, and other musical groups, child servants, and majestic costumes are also determined according to their ranks during their lifetime.

At the end of the early Tang Dynasty, the style of thick burials began to flourish.

Later, from the heyday of the Tang Dynasty to the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the trend of lavish burials became more and more serious.

Walking along the streets with bright utensils, at Chen's tomb, singing, dancing and music are played, curtains are drawn, beds are set up, flowers, human figures, and food are given to passers-by, almost like sacrifices.

Regardless of its shape and color, Tang Sancai has a very high artistic conception, which attracted the attention of people from Neon, Europe and the United States, and bought it at a high price. Since then, Tang Sancai has been included as a part of world art.

To sum up, the common unearthed Tang tri-color pottery includes tri-color horses, camels, ladies, musician figurines, and pillows.

Especially the three-color camels, carrying silk or bands on their backs, neighing with their heads raised.

Such vivid pottery sculptures were rare before the Tang Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)