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Chapter 1564 Jilan in the Ming Dynasty, Xuande was the first to be promoted

It can be said that in the whole blue-glazed porcelain system, Ji-blue glaze is as blue as the deep sea and is the purest hue. Ji-blue glaze is a common name.

The previous titles included "Ji Lan", "Ji Lan", etc., and later took the word "Ji Lan", which symbolizes the rain after the rain in Chinese classical literature, and is a very special blue-glazed porcelain.

Jilan in the Ming Dynasty was most praised by later generations in the Xuande Dynasty.

Xuande blue-glazed porcelain is mostly a single-color glaze.

Of course, there are also a small number of dark flowers, and there are blue-glazed white flowers, mostly broken branches and fish and algae patterns.

There are two types of official kiln inscriptions: blue and white and dark inscriptions, both of which are inscriptions in double-line six-character regular script of the "Made in Xuande Year of the Ming Dynasty", and all four-character inscriptions are later imitations.

Because of its stable and bright color like gemstones, it is also called sapphire blue.

The Ji blue glaze fired during the Xuande Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty has a thick texture and a beautiful color, so later generations will call it "Ji Qing".

Now it is juxtaposed with white glaze and red glaze, and it is promoted as the three "top grades" of Xuande color glaze porcelain.

The firing technology of Ji blue glaze in the Qing Dynasty has improved steadily.

The simple indigo glaze has a heavy tone, and dark engraved patterns and gold-painted decorations are also added to add a sense of wealth and festiveness to the utensils.

The characteristics of Ji blue glaze are very obvious. First of all, it is covered with blue glaze inside and outside, and white glaze inside and blue glaze outside;
Secondly, there are few bowls and trays that are neat along the "light grass edge", and most of the lines are curved and irregular;
Again, the circle feet are glazed to the end, and the circle feet are invisible to the eye;

In addition, the shallow engraved patterns of Jilan glaze are mostly dragon patterns, and the white flowers are rarely seen with dragon patterns, and the white flowers are all made by pile molding method, which is a protruding three-dimensional pattern, but when you look at it, it seems that there is no three-dimensional effect;
Bowls and plates in the final shape are common, but bottles and pots are rare in handed down products.

Knowing what is blue glaze, then when making blue and white porcelain, you can also make blue glaze porcelain from the past dynasties.

After careful calculation, Ji blue glaze and blue and white porcelain were actually produced in about the same age.

And they all began to prosper in the Yuan Dynasty, reached their peak in the Ming Dynasty, and ended in the Qing Dynasty.

The blue and white of the Yuan Dynasty is the blue and white of the Yuan Dynasty, and the blue glaze of the Yuan Dynasty is no worse than the blue and white porcelain.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the imported cobalt material used for firing Ji blue glazed porcelain was also very precious.

The hair color of this cobalt material is not yet stable. Under such circumstances, it is very rare for ancient potters to be able to fire blue glaze porcelain with stable, deep, even and non-smudged hair color.

The blue-glazed porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty is mainly "blue ground and white flowers", and cloud and dragon patterns are more common, and those without plain decorations are almost rare.

At present, there are very few surviving complete Yuan Dynasty blue-glazed porcelains in the world, and they are mainly collected in major museums at home and abroad.

Such as the Palace Museum, Yangshi Museum, and the Summer Palace in Shendu.

There are more overseas ones, such as the Idemitsu Art Museum on the little devil's side, and the Osaka Municipal Museum of Oriental Ceramics.

Others include the French Guimet Museum, the Iraqi National Museum, the Topka Museum in Istanbul, and the British Museum (in the collection of Sir David David) and so on.

There are very few Yuan Dynasty blue-glazed porcelains in private collections.

Originally hidden among the people, the most famous one should be the blue-glazed plum vase with white dragon pattern.

Chen Wenzhe had encountered this before, and even imitated it.

The whole body of this porcelain is covered with Ji blue glaze, and Yunlong and Baozhu are covered with green and white glaze.

The contrast between the two glaze colors is sharp and strong.

The main pattern depicts a dragon chasing a flame orb, and it is lined with four flame-shaped cloud patterns like floating coral branches.

The giant dragon is mighty, majestic, and ferocious, flying in the sky for thousands of miles in the blue sky, quite powerful.

Unfortunately, this treasure was finally sold for 18 yuan.

The characteristics of this kind of Ji blue glaze in Yuan Dynasty are very obvious and easy to identify.

But a few decades ago, very few people could recognize it, so it was easy for the pearl to be dusted.

But now, it is definitely impossible, so it is even more difficult for folks to collect.

From the modeling point of view, the blue-glazed porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty has a dignified and upright shape, vigorous and elegant, and its outline is extremely beautiful.

However, the modern imitation product has a top-heavy shape, a high center of gravity, and a light hand feeling, which shows a big difference in the modeling technology of the two eras.

Judging from the decoration, the dragon decoration in the Yuan Dynasty is strong and powerful, with both spirit and shape.

The glaze color is blue and white, clean and bright, with a strong sense of art.

This embodies the style of the ancients that "the picture must be intentional, and the meaning must be auspicious".

On the other hand, the proportions of the ornamentation on imitation products are out of balance, and the depiction is rigid, invisible and spiritless.

Judging from the porcelain body, the quality of the Yuan Dynasty porcelain body is relatively rough.

Porcelain body off-white, or light red.

Rust spots and flint red (yellow) are common and feel natural.

This gives people a mature, old-fashioned feeling.

The modern imitation porcelain is delicate and white, with a strong fire.

This shows the difference between the two eras in the smelting clay and firing process.

Then there is the glaze color. Judging from the glaze color, the glaze color of the Yuan Dynasty is rich and moist, and the depth of the glaze surface varies. The glaze color is pure and simple.

The glaze colors of the Yuan Dynasty have the characteristics of poly glaze, shrink glaze and vertical glaze.

The modern imitation glaze color is very perfect, which fully embodies the different aesthetics produced by the different glazing methods of the two dynasties.

In comparison, the blue-glazed porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty is still easier to imitate than the blue-and-white glazed porcelain.

Of course, it is only relatively speaking. After all, all the soil used in that period was Macang soil. Even if Su Ma Li Qing was not used, cobalt was used.

Fortunately, the current Buddha head green material is easy to refine, otherwise it would be even more difficult to imitate the blue-glazed porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty.

In the Ming Dynasty, especially in the Xuande period, Jilan glaze had reached its peak.

The glaze color of sapphire fired in the Xuande Dynasty is world-famous.

Therefore, it is not easy to be able to be called the three high-temperature single-color glaze varieties in the Xuande period together with red glaze and sweet white.

Therefore, Xuande blue glaze has always enjoyed a high reputation, but handed down products are relatively rare.

White glaze is applied inside the plate, the glaze color is slightly green, and the orange peel pattern is obvious.

The outer wall is covered with high-temperature cobalt blue glaze, and the glaze layer hangs down along the mouth to reveal the white fetal bone.

The blue glaze is pure in color, and the color is crystal clear like sapphire.

This is the representative feature of Ji blue glazed porcelain in Xuande Dynasty.

Therefore, Jilan in the Ming Dynasty is the first Xuande dynasty that is most praised by later generations.

Most of the Xuande blue-glazed porcelains are glazed with a single color, and there are also a few depicting dark flowers, and there are also blue-glazed white flowers, mostly with broken branch flowers and fish and algae patterns.

The characteristics of Xuande Ji blue glaze are also very obvious.

Generally, the inside and outside are covered with blue glaze, and those with white glaze on the inside and blue glaze on the outside coexist.

In addition, there are few bowls and trays that are neat along the "light grass edge", and most of the lines are curved and irregular.

The third is to apply glazing to the bottom of the ring foot, so that the head-up view is insufficient and the ring foot is exposed.

Furthermore, shallow carved patterns are mostly dragon patterns, and white flowers are rarely seen with dragon patterns, and the white flowers are all made by stacking molding method, which is a protruding three-dimensional pattern, but when you look at it, it seems that there is no three-dimensional effect.

The last is the shape, which is common in bowls and plates, but rare in bottles and pots handed down from generation to generation.

During the period from Chenghua to Zhengde, there were many changes in the fired blue glaze.

There are not many blue-glazed porcelains from the Chenghua, Hongzhi and Zhengde periods.

Especially in the Chenghua period, no complete vessel has been seen so far.

However, blue glaze fragments with Chenghua inscriptions were unearthed from Jingzhen Yuchang, which shows that its production has never stopped.

(End of this chapter)