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Chapter 1100 Treasure of Oriental Art
In addition to the tricolor camels and horses, the pottery figurines in the Tang Sancai also have the characteristics of the times, and it can be said that they have unique characteristics that have never existed in previous dynasties.

In particular, the red-bearded and blue-eyed camel figurines, wearing narrow-sleeved shirts and flip-brimmed hats, reproduce the life images of Hu people in Central Asia, reminiscent of the scene of camels walking on the "Silk Road" back then.

Therefore, the most classic imitation must be the three-color camel.

To make this kind of three-color pottery, Chen Wenzhe also has a complete range of materials here, especially kaolin. He had bought a large amount of high-quality kaolin before.

After all, Li Jinli is not a professional. The high-quality kaolin he bought at that time was not only from the former site of Ru Kiln, but also from the former site of Tang Sancai.

The old Tang Sancai kiln site is in Yangluo, and the high-quality kaolin unearthed there is just suitable for firing Tang Sancai pottery.

Although Tang Sancai is pottery, few people know that Tang Sancai is made of fine white clay.

Such mud is made of lead oxide as a flux, the purpose is to reduce the melting temperature of the glaze.

During the firing process, metal oxides containing copper, iron, cobalt and other elements are used as coloring agents and melted into the lead glaze to form yellow, green, blue, white, purple, brown and other glaze colors.

However, many utensils are mainly yellow, green and white, and some utensils only have one or two of the above colors, which are collectively called "Tang Sancai".

To make Tang Sancai, the white clay that has been processed by pounding, panning, etc. is first kneaded into a certain shape.

After trimming and drying, it is put into a kiln and fired at 1000 °C.

After cooling, it is glazed and painted, and then baked in a kiln to 800°C.

It is easy to say, but it is not difficult to do, but the production process is a bit complicated.

Because Tang Sancai uses finely processed kaolin as the body, uses copper, iron, cobalt, manganese, gold and other minerals as the colorant of the glaze, and adds an appropriate amount of lead smelting slag and lead ash as additives in the glaze. , the final fired high-quality multi-glazed pottery.

After the tire is ready, the biscuit is fired in the kiln first, and the pottery is fired, then glazed, and then fired in the kiln again to about 800°C.

Due to the strong fluidity of lead glaze, the glaze spreads and flows around during the firing process, and the glazes of various colors infiltrate and blend with each other to form natural, mottled and gorgeous colors.

It is also like this to form a traditional handicraft with a unique style.

Since it is a traditional handicraft, someone must imitate it now.

Even Chen Wenzhe knows that the copying and imitation techniques of Tang Sancai have a history of hundreds of years in Yangluo.

Otherwise, it would be really difficult for Li Jinli to buy qualified production materials, especially pottery clay and glaze minerals.

Now, through the research and development of artists in the past dynasties, the technology of Tang Sancai has been gradually improved, and the firing level has been continuously improved, which makes the craftsmanship and artistic level of "Yangluo Tang Sancai" reach a certain height.

Therefore, even if it is a modern artwork produced, there is no need to worry about selling it.

Especially in the international market, Tang Sancai has become an extremely precious work of art.

It has been rated as an excellent tourism product at an international tourism conference attended by more than 80 countries and regions, and is known as the "Oriental Art Treasure".

Tang Sancai horses and camels were presented as national gifts to the heads of state and governments of more than 50 countries.

Since the founding of New China, with the increase of people's attention to Tang Sancai and the development of Tang Sancai restoration technology, people are keen on the furnishings of the study, which is a good gift for relatives and friends.

Tang Sancai was not only popular in the Tang Dynasty, but also sold well overseas.

This is not only now, but also famous in ancient Tang Sancai, and sold to foreign countries.

The evidence is that Tang Sancai has been found in more than ten countries including India, Japan, North Korea, Iraq, Egypt, and Italy.

Looking at Tang Sancai now, it is still a kind of exquisite work of art, let alone in ancient times.

If it weren't for Chen Wenzhe's deepening of various skills, it would be really difficult for ordinary people to perfectly fire Tang Sancai.

Not to mention other things, the production of Tang Sancai has a history of more than 1300 years. It has absorbed the characteristics of traditional Chinese painting, sculpture and other arts and crafts. Only this point cannot be imitated by ordinary people.

Among them, the most classic types are definitely camels, horses and figurines.

These types of utensils are not only expensive because of their rich and gorgeous glaze, but also because of their vivid and lifelike shapes.

This kind of low-temperature lead-glazed pottery adds different metal oxides to the colored glaze and bakes it to form various colors such as light yellow, ocher yellow, light green, dark green, sky blue, brown red, eggplant purple, etc.

The production process is mainly the colored glaze coated on the pottery blank.

During the baking process, chemical changes occur, the color glaze changes in shade, infiltrates each other, mottled and dripping, the colors are naturally coordinated, and the patterns are smooth.

However, Tang Sancai was used for burial, as a ghost vessel, because of its brittle texture and poor waterproof performance, its practicability was far inferior to that of celadon and white porcelain that had appeared at that time.

Even so, the production process of Tang Sancai is very complicated.

First of all, after the mined ore soil is selected, pounded, washed, precipitated, and dried, it is made into a mold and fired in a kiln.

When firing, the second firing method is used.

In terms of raw materials, its carcass is made of white clay.

In the glaze color, various oxidized metals are used as coloring agents, and various colors are presented after calcination.

After the glaze is fired, some characters need to open their faces again.

The so-called open face means that the head of the character is not glazed in antique products. It has to go through the process of thrush, lip, and hair.

Then this Tang Sancai product is considered complete.

It's easy to say, but it's really troublesome to do it.

To sum up, the basic forming methods of Tang Sancai include wheel making, molding and sculpture.

On a utensil, several methods are often used in combination.

Wheel system is the method of making pottery with wheel carts, which Chen Wenzhe is very familiar with.

It's just that many classic wares in Tang Sancai cannot use the wheel system.

For example, camels, horses, and character shapes cannot be made by drawing embryos.

Therefore, molding is also needed to make Tang Sancai.

This is also similar to the hand-squeezing method in the modern ceramic manufacturing industry, which is mostly used to make small items with simple shapes.

Molding is divided into two types: single mold and combined mold.

The single mold is made by putting the mud into the mold and extruding it. This single mold is suitable for decorative decals and other small accessories on the utensils.

The double mold is formed by pressing two half molds and then butting them. The mold clamping is suitable for living utensils, servants, animals and more complicated utensil components.

The last is direct sculpture molding, which is mostly suitable for large servants and complicated utensils.

The production of a relatively complicated three-color ware requires the use of various molding methods.

This is the production process, after sorting it out, Chen Wenzhe can do it very well.

However, if you want to imitate Tang Sancai, you must understand the characteristics of Tang Sancai.

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