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Chapter 1215 The thinnest and whitest is the best

The use of tall trays to serve food must have been a later usage.

The tall foot plate that appeared at the very beginning must be a sacrificial vessel.

Because all the good things in ancient times are the process from god to man.

After that, it is the process from nobleman to commoner.

However, in the Song Dynasty, Gaozupan was already a utensil fired in porcelain kilns in the north and south.

Judging from archaeological data, the high-foot plate was first seen in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the third year of Tiantong in the Northern Qi Dynasty (567).

In the tombs at that time, the celadon glazed high-footed plate was unearthed.

At present, the porcelain kilns that fired high-legged dishes in the Sui Dynasty have been found, including Jiabi Kiln in Beihe, Anyang Kiln and Gongyi Kiln in Nanhe, Huainan Kiln in Hui Province, Xiangyin Kiln in Nanhu, and Qiong Kiln in Sichuan Province.

The porcelain kilns mentioned above are mainly used for firing celadon-glazed high-foot dishes, the glaze color is light blue and transparent, and some black spots and impurities on the carcass can be seen.

The Gongyi Kiln in Nanhe also fired three-color high-foot dishes in the Tang Dynasty.

This kind of utensil was relatively popular in the Sui Dynasty, and it appeared in murals and paintings of the same era.

At present, no kiln sites of the Tang Dynasty have been found in Huishi. This high-legged plate of the Tang Dynasty unearthed in Shitou Mountain in the urban area of ​​Huishi in 1986 should be a vessel for holding objects because it is shallow and open.

Although it is a simple and unpretentious daily necessities, it also reflects the living environment of the Tang Dynasty from different aspects.

This also proves that the ancient residents living in this area, due to social development and daily life needs, had material circulation and trade with other places in the Tang Dynasty.

Chen Wenzhe has ready-made craftsmanship for green-glazed high-footed dishes and three-color high-footed dishes, and it is not difficult to make them.

His celadon porcelain has the highest level of firing, while Tang Sancai technology can only be regarded as mediocre.

However, just like this, it must reach the master level.

With more and more imitations of ancient porcelain, Chen Wenzhi learned more and more craftsmanship.

Just like now, with the extension of an object, as long as it can be thought of by him, he can almost make it at will.

The most troublesome thing is to choose the mineral material and mix the glaze. As for the craft, it is not difficult for him at all.

For him now, the gold setter is more troublesome.

Because the Ding kiln wares that are overfired with support rings all have awn mouths, these later stages need to be inlaid with gold and silver buckles.

There is no way to do this, because as long as this technique is used for firing, mangoes will inevitably appear.

However, if you want to burn the high-quality products of the fixed kiln, you must burn them in circles.

In this method of firing porcelain, the utensils in the sagger are fixed by a special ring support ring.

The porcelain to be fired is also placed upside down.

It is also because of overlaying that a circle of glaze layer must be cut off the edge of the mouth of the utensil to expose the fetal bone, so that it can be placed on the supporting ring.

After the final firing, the utensils will form a "mang mouth".

What needs to be mentioned here is that the ring firing process is not just for expanding production.

The walls of some large plates and bowls of Ding porcelain are as thin as a cloud, but rarely deformed, which must also be attributed to the new technology of covering the support ring.

While expanding the output, the covering firing process also makes the porcelain fired in Ding kiln more regular.

However, after all, the edge of the mouth of the utensil lost its glaze, forming a "mang mouth".

Picky people think that this kind of rough "mouth" destroys the overall beauty of the utensils.

Liang Tongshu's "Ancient Bronze Porcelain Archaeological Kiln Research" records that Song Renzong decreed after seeing the over-fired Ding porcelain that he paid tribute: "The white porcelain in Dingzhou has awns and is unusable, so he ordered Ruzhou to build a green kiln."

In order to solve this defect, Ding kiln craftsmen inlaid metal edges on some glazed mouths and ring feet.

The noblest ones are bordered with gold and silver to make the utensils more elegant and luxurious. This process is called gold and silver clasps.

The corresponding utensils are called "golden setters".

However, it needs to be specially explained here that the gold and silver buckle technology in Ding porcelain appeared much earlier than the over-firing technology.

In other words, it is not because of the disadvantage of "mang mouth" that there are gold and silver buckles.

In fact, many gold-mounted vessels are fired upwards, and the rim is glazed instead of "mangkou".

The white-glazed "official" style gold-mounted mouth plate in the underground palace of Jingzhi Temple, and the white-glazed lotus-patterned long-necked bottle with silver cover and silver feet in the underground palace of Jingzhongyuan are the best of this kind of "gold-mounted fixtures".

That is to say, sometimes there is no awn mouth, and a circle of gold and silver buckles can also be inlaid.

Of course, as long as it is Ding kiln porcelain that can enter the palace, it must be a treasure, even if it is not decorated with gold, it is still very valuable.

However, Ding kiln porcelain with this layer of gold must be more valuable.

Since it is a good thing, it must be copied a few more.

Porcelain, such as bowls and dishes, is very simple to make. Since the plates are all made, small dishes are naturally indispensable.

It just so happens that the white-glazed "official" plate with cicada patterns unearthed from the underground palace of Jingzhi Temple is similar to the previous plate, and it is easy to make.

White-glazed "official" dish with cicada pattern, 12.4 cm in diameter and 8.5 cm in bottom diameter.

The six-curved flower shape is open, the oblique abdomen is slightly bulging, and the bottom is flat.

The tire is extremely thin, only 0.2 cm.

The texture of the tire is firm and fine, the glaze is white and shiny, with slight yellowish glaze marks, and the outsole is exposed.

The decoration on the inner bottom is neat and slender, and it is a pair of cicada patterns.

The outsole is engraved with the character "Official" in running script, and the words "Offering relics to Wu Chengxun on May 977, the second year of Taiping Xingguo (5) in ink" are 28 lines and [-] characters.

The dish imitates gold and silverware, and the mouth is unglazed.

The second year of Taiping Xingguo was 977 AD, and this year was not easy.

Taiping Xingguo (December 976-November 984) was the year name of Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi, the second emperor of the Song Dynasty, for a total of nearly 8 years.

And Qian Chu, the Zhongyi king of Wuyue, also used this year name to record the year, and his existence was from December 976 to May 978).

Here, because Wu Chengxun, the male disciple of the benefactor behind, Qian Sanshizumo, it can be proved that the reign name here is not the reign name of Song Dynasty, but Wuyue Kingdom.

The Wuyue Kingdom of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms is known as: a place of thousands of miles, with hundreds of thousands of armour, cast mountains and cook seas, rich like rhinoceros, pearls and jade, the best in the world.

Its country is also famous as the origin of secret-color glazed porcelain, and it must be unusual for Ding kiln porcelain to appear here.

However, such a thing, not only once.

For example, there are many pieces of Ding porcelain in the tombs of Qian Kuan, the father of Qian Liu, the founder of the Wuyue Kingdom, and Shui Qiu, the mother, which shows how precious they are.

From the tomb of Qian Kuan in the late Tang Dynasty in Lin'an, a white porcelain begonia cup from the Ding kiln was unearthed.

From the tomb of Shuiqiu's family in the late Tang Dynasty in Lin'an, a "gold-mounted vessel" white porcelain Yunlong cup was unearthed.

It can be seen from this that the reputation of Ding kiln wares at that time was far greater than that of other kilns.

And this must be because of its regular craftsmanship, beautiful shape, and ingenious decoration, which made it famous and famous all over the world.

It is because of the beauty of the Ding kiln that the porcelain kilns around the time followed suit, but the porcelain of the Ding kiln is the thinnest, whitest and best!
For example, Jingzhen, which is well-known to our modern people, is still called the Porcelain Capital until now, but in those days, it was only called "Nanding".

(End of this chapter)