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Chapter 1530 Exquisite inside and out
With almost strict artwork standards and technical difficulty, we can strive to highly restore the wonderful charm of Ming Dynasty imperial porcelain.

In this way, according to the craftsmanship of the imperial kiln factory in the Ming Dynasty, the re-engraved works need to be refined every step of the way.

For example, there is an inscription on the bottom of each Chenghua Doucai cup.

The strokes are thick, the fonts are fat, and there is strength in the softness, which is particularly round, powerful and reserved.

Just this step can stump many top antique craftsmen.

And all of this is worth it.

If these five cups are really imitated, pour a cup of tea, and the fragrance of the tea will be an incomparably pleasant enjoyment, with flowers, paintings, and poems...

Unfortunately, the better something is, the more difficult it is to imitate, because there are too many technical difficulties.

Especially "Doucai", you must know that this is a great pioneering work of Chenghua porcelain in Ming Dynasty.

In fact, to put it simply, bucket color is a new variety of porcelain born on the basis of blue and white smeared red color painting, combined with underglaze blue and white and overglaze color glaze.

That's why fighting colors have the reputation of "blue and white decoration with five colors".

Among the Ming Dynasty Chenghua Doucai Porcelain, there are two extremely important works.

They are "chicken bowl cup" and "three autumn cup".

Among them, the number of Sanqiu cups is even smaller, which can be called the best.

After the end of summer, the weather is getting cooler, and there is a sense of autumn.

The ancients divided autumn into Mengqiu, Zhongqiu and Jiqiu, collectively called "three autumns".

There are too many works of art created with the theme of "Three Autumns"!
Among them, the most commendable is the Ming Chenghua Doucai "Sanqiu Cup".

Historically, the name of the Sanqiu Cup is not as loud as the chicken cup of the same period, but its craftsmanship and collection value far exceed the chicken cup.

This is not unreasonable, because its shape is exquisite and exquisite, and its tire quality is fine and crystal clear.

The color materials are selected and pure, and the colors are soft and quiet!

The painting is elegant and graceful, and its light and elegant style is unique.

Generally speaking: Chenghua official kiln wares have delicate and pure white tires, white glaze as smooth as fat, soft colors, fluent brushwork, light and beautiful shapes, and exquisite exterior and interior.

Don't say anything else, just say one thing, that is the "colorful purple" that cannot be imitated.

Chenghua porcelain has a wide variety and rich colors.

Such as red ground green color, red glaze white flower, blue and white red color, blue and white green color.

There are also strange things, such as peacock green glaze blue flowers, yellow glaze blue flowers, blue glaze white flowers, white glaze sauce flowers, white glaze red colors, white glaze yellow colors, and white glaze green colors.

There are also plain three-color, enamel, imitation Ge glaze and so on.

Many of the colors on these colorful glazes have never been seen before.

For example, the "Chazi" on the "Sanqiu Cup" of Chenghua Doucai in Ming Dynasty.

On the butterfly wings of the Sanqiu Cup, there is a purple glaze, the color is like red iron, the surface is dry and dull but very rich and colorful.

After analyzing the Chenghua fighting colors he had witnessed, Sun Yingzhou summed up the characteristics of the overglaze colors of Sanqiu cups, and named this special color "poor purple".

Sun Yingzhou's explanation of "poor purple" is "different color defects during firing". To put it bluntly, it is caused by insufficient craftsmanship.

But what is unexpected is that this "flaw" in color is respected by later generations.

The reason is that the level of craftsmanship has improved later, but it is not clear how the "poor purple" was fired back then, so it cannot be imitated.

Sun Yingzhou once pointed out: "The lids fired in Qingkang, Yong, and Gan Dynasties, other colors are imitated similarly, but the color of 'poor purple' is not as far away...It can be said with certainty that all Chengcai with 'poor purple' Absolutely authentic."

"Chazi" is distinguished by "poor", and the Tibetan circle later refined it into "colorful purple" with "colorful purples and bright reds".

As for the unique 'colorful purple', what exactly is it? It is as red as iron.

In fact, the surface is dry and dull. In the past, some people did not know much about this color, and every time they cleaned it, they mistaken it for dirt and scraped it, which damaged the colored glaze.

As a special basis for identifying Chenghua bucket color, it is often concluded based on this color.

All the imitators are far behind.

Despite all the efforts of the Tibetan community, "Beautiful Purple" still cannot be imitated.

At present, there has never been a high imitation of Ming Chenghua Doucai "Sanqiu Cup" in the market.

Even if the shape, base, composition, and lines of the vessel are exactly the same, the glaze color cannot be completely restored.

Therefore, "Beautiful Purple" has become the anti-counterfeiting symbol of Ming Chenghua Doucai "Sanqiu Cup".

People have not imitated the colorful cockroach cups and Sanqiu cups of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty so far, because the colorful cockroaches are actually a failed firing method.

But it is this failed color that creates the color of Chenghua Doucai. Just like the opening of porcelain, the more unexpected the characteristics, the more difficult it is to imitate.

If these can be imitated, then the Doucai chicken cup can basically be imitated.

In other words, if you can imitate the Doucai Chicken Cup, then you can definitely imitate the Sanqiu Cup.

Therefore, this difficulty is not difficult for Chen Wenzhe.

Because Chen Wenzhe has thoroughly researched the chicken bowl cup for a long time.

He is also very clear that, as a royal weapon, the colorful purple in the fighting color wares fired back then must be very beautiful, and it is absolutely impossible to be a failed firing technique.

The reason why it looks dull now, like dirt, is mainly because it has been too long and has undergone unknown chemical changes, so it has turned into poor purple.

In fact, some problems can also be seen from some Chenghua Doucai porcelain that has been handed down.

The "colorful purple" on these porcelains behaves differently because they are on different devices.

It can be deduced from this that "Chazi" must be very different from other Chenghua Doucai porcelains.

The difference in "colorful purple" on different porcelains can be expressed by the Wanwan Chenghua bucket color porcelain plate collected in the Palace Museum.

This porcelain plate has a deep brown color in the center of the bottom of the plate.

If you have seen it, even if you look at the pictures, you can see that the particles are thick, the color is deep, the material is thick, the pigment is obviously higher than the glaze surface, and there is weak reflection.

There is also a Chenghua magpie broken branch flower stem cup collected by the British Museum. The purple particles are very fine, the color is very pure, slightly higher than the glaze surface, and slightly reflective.

In addition, through comparison, some high imitations can also be seen.

For example, Chen Wenzhe has seen a high imitation, which he saw in the Haihai City Collectors Association.

He didn't quite understand it at the time, but now that he thinks about it, the picture of the chicken cup is a bit dull, and the wall of the cup is thick, which seems to be an imitation.

Its "colorful purple" particles are very thick, especially the decoration of a butterfly.

After the butterfly is enlarged, the pigment is high above the glaze
It can be seen that the colorful purples of Chenghua Doucai are not exactly the same.

Of course, this is mainly due to the different grinding thickness of mineral pigments.

The quality is different, and the color thickness is different, which will make the purple on the fired porcelain show the difference in color thickness, color depth, reflection and so on.

Especially finely ground chazi, there will be reflections after the porcelain is fired.

Although the reflection is weaker than other pigments, it deviates from people's traditional understanding of purple, which may also be related to the firing temperature.

(End of this chapter)