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Chapter 1210
The most amazing thing about Ding kiln is the black glaze. When the kiln temperature is around 1280 degrees, the black glaze will be fired.

When the temperature reaches about 1290 degrees, the glaze surface turns from black to purple, commonly known as sauce glaze;
When the temperature reaches about 1300 degrees, it starts to change from purple to reddish brown or red.

Kiln discoloration is common in all kilns in the north and south. Ding kiln is fired into an oxidizing flame, and the color segments of black, purple, and red are all successfully fired at several temperature stages, and sometimes it is easy to be confused... …

In the era when there was no infrared thermometer, imagine how difficult it is to control the heat, and you will know how difficult it is to do.

This is a special test for the master kiln worker. If the firewood can be fired casually, it can be fired, but the desired glaze color cannot be fired at all.

What's more, these Ding kiln baby pillows handed down from generation to generation, even at that time, were the highest level of porcelain, so it was not easy to fire them.

Modern Ding kiln firing technology has been thoroughly researched.

As long as Chen Wenzhe carefully controls the firing temperature on the basis of what he knows, he can increase the probability of firing, even one-time firing.

There is no need to adjust too many glaze colors, as long as the same glaze is applied, porcelain with different glaze colors can be fired by controlling the temperature. This is a new experience.

And when this batch of porcelain pillows came out of the kiln, Chen Wenzhe felt relieved.

As long as you know the craftsmanship and add suitable materials, it is not difficult to refire a batch of Song Dynasty porcelain pillows.

However, the Ding kiln wares he fired have not yet reached their limit.

You must know that Ding kiln porcelain is more than just baby pillows, and there are many special varieties among them.

If you want to imitate fine Ding kiln porcelain, you have to know the authentic products of Ding kiln wares.

The Ding kiln wares with the most handed down authentic products come from two pagodas and underground palaces.

Relic collection (yì cáng, referring to burial objects) has become a grand event in the Tang Dynasty, from the emperor to the common people, who are exhausting their resources and giving alms in order to provide for them.

In the Buddhism of the Middle Ages, the objects of charity are not coins, gold and silver.

And often some precious items representing the highest level of craftsmanship at that time.

Dingzhou Jingzhi Temple and Jingzhongyuan are the most eye-catching of the two pagodas and underground palaces.

Because there are batches of Ding porcelain unearthed in these two places.

Among them, there are 115 in Jingzhi Temple and 55 in Jingzhongyuan.

There are many types and many high-quality goods, and the high-quality goods among them account for the majority of the utensils stored in the two underground palaces.

The beliefs of the ancients have passed away, but the works of art created by generations of people relying on beliefs have survived to this day.

For today's people, it must be said that it is not a blessing!
Ding kiln porcelain has been handed down to the present, after more than a thousand years, how rare is it to be preserved intact?

If it is not hidden in the underground palace of the pagoda, can the handed down things be preserved for a thousand years?

Now Chen Wenzhe wants to imitate the precious porcelain of Ding Kiln, and the batch unearthed from the underground palace of Jingzhi Temple is the best imitation object, because they are really special!
Not to mention other things, just talk about the tureen unearthed inside, which is not easy.

I mentioned a large Ding kiln white porcelain bowl before, but that one sold for a sky-high price of more than [-] million yuan.

And this one, it must be even more difficult to be hidden in the underground palace of the pagoda and serve the Buddha.

This is a white-glazed Tinyu trumpet-mouth covered bowl from the Northern Song Dynasty unearthed from the underground palace of Jingzhi Temple.

It is 13.9 cm high, 16.7 cm in diameter and 9.5 cm in foot diameter.

The bowl cover is helmet-shaped, with plastic pedicle buttons piled on top of the cover, flower-shaped button seats carved around the buttons, and double lotus patterns on the cover surface.

The bowl has an open mouth and a deep belly, the large ring foot is slightly turned outward, and the plain surface has no grain.

The fetus is white and hard, the glaze is white and slightly yellowish, and the inner edge of the cover, the mouth of the bowl, and the ring foot are exposed.

Such a Ding kiln white porcelain tureen is a high-quality product no matter how you look at it.

Even if he is not as good as the previous palace bowl with more than [-] million yuan, if such a tureen is up for auction, it will cost [-] to [-] million yuan, right?
The reason why it is valuable must be because of the reputation of Ding Kiln.

Before the Tang Dynasty, my country's porcelain was always dominated by celadon porcelain represented by the southern Yue kiln.

The development of the north was relatively late, and the celadon unearthed in the Luoyang area during the Northern Dynasties were all imported from the south.

At the time of Sui and Tang Dynasties, the northern white glazed porcelain rose.

This makes our country the first country in the world to have white glazed porcelain, and at the same time breaks the pattern of universal dominance of celadon.

Thus formed the two major systems in the history of ceramics, the so-called "South Green and North White".

The most famous white glazed porcelain is Ding porcelain.

In the Tang Dynasty, Lu Yu commented on porcelain from the perspective of the utensils for holding tea in "The Classic of Tea", saying that Yuezhou celadon was second to Xingzhou white porcelain.

It can be seen from this that at that time, the two series of porcelain in the north and south, Qingbai and Qingbai, were already in a situation of mutual competition.

Xingzhou white porcelain is Xing kiln white glazed porcelain, which is the earliest famous kiln system in white porcelain.

Ding porcelain is a kind of porcelain that has its own system and style after inheriting the foundation of Xing kiln porcelain.

The Ding porcelain kiln site is today in Quyang, Beihe, which belonged to Dingzhou in ancient times.

Porcelain clay is widely distributed in my country, and large-scale kiln sites will appear in places rich in porcelain clay, more fuels, and rivers for transportation.

Quyang Jianci Village, Dongyanchuan Village and Xiyanchuan Village are rich in high-quality kaolin.

This kind of kaolin has a high content of alumina, while the content of iron oxide and titanium dioxide is extremely low, which is the root cause of the white glaze of porcelain tires.

Ding kiln porcelain as a whole is characterized by its silvery and snowy whiteness, which is due to the high-quality kaolin produced locally.

"Dingzhou Flower Porcelain Ou, the color of the world is white", is the simplest and most concise summary of the uniqueness of Dingzhou Porcelain.

It is such a precious Ding porcelain, one hundred and fifty or sixty pieces were found in the two pagodas and underground palaces at once!
The small bowl just now was the most common among them.

The slightly unusual ones are the white-glazed peach-shaped box, and the white-glazed slub-shaped cylindrical box.

This is a practical vessel. The whole white-glazed peach-shaped box is 9.5 cm high, 7.6 cm in belly diameter and 4.3 cm in foot diameter.

The whole is peach-shaped, and the lid and the box body are connected by a mother-in-law mouth.

The top is covered with a plastic peach tip, the top is small and the bottom is big, slightly tapered.

The body of the box is round, with a straight mouth, a straight belly, and short circle feet.

The concave line is drawn from the cover to the foot to make the image more realistic.

The tire quality is white and hard, the glaze is white and shiny, and the wheel pattern is obvious all over the body.

The white-glazed slub-shaped cylindrical box is a high-simplified round shape imitating slub.

The top of the cover is raised, and the slub pattern on the body is neat and balanced, which is drawn by the rotary cutting technique.

The porcelain body is white and hard, the wall is very thin, the glaze is white and yellowish, bright and lustrous, with hanging glaze marks.There is no glaze on the bottom of the ring foot, which is a fine product of Ding kiln at first glance.

Dingci is a utensil that combines artistry and practicality. The porcelain box on it is a little special.

If it is not ordinary, it is very special. It is a white-glazed wavy snail with a total length of 19.3 cm and a mouth width of 8.4 cm.

This French snail is lifelike, with a spiral shell.

The whole body of the shell is decorated with wavy patterns, with a cone-shaped body in the center and a bell mouth. This kind of mimetic porcelain with a very realistic shape is still rare in porcelain.

(End of this chapter)