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Chapter 1593 Gongyi Dragon Kiln
There are so many varieties of Huashen cups, if you do them all, there will be no more questions.

Therefore, Chen Wenzhe selected the classic models and did it once.

By this time, he has made nine of the top ten famous cups in the past dynasties.

And the last one is a duck-shaped cup,
The duck-shaped cup is one of the more popular cup styles in the Tang Dynasty, and most of them are three-color vessels.

The duck-shaped cup is vivid in shape, usually in the posture of a reclining duck, with the duckbill holding the cup body.

This kind of cup can also be used as a lamp, so it is also vividly called "duck lamp".

This is actually the same as a lady's lamp, nothing surprising.

Many cups in ancient times can actually be used as lamps.

For example, pour oil on a lamp and put a wick on it. This is the simplest lamp.

This kind of duck-shaped cup of the Tang Dynasty should be the most famous duck-shaped cup of the Gongyi Kiln in the Tang Dynasty.

Gongyi kiln began in the Han Dynasty, when pottery was fired.

Developed in the Northern Wei Dynasty, porcelain was fired during this period.

It matured in the Sui Dynasty, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, and declined in the Song and Jin Dynasties.

The production of celadon and white porcelain during the Northern Dynasties filled the gap in the history of Chinese ceramics.

The Sui Dynasty continued to develop on this basis, and the Tang Dynasty mainly produced white porcelain, twisted body porcelain, black glaze, yellow glaze porcelain, etc.

These fired works all reflect the superb craftsmanship and profound cultural connotation of the craftsmen at that time.

The duck-shaped cup is one of the popular cup styles in the Tang Dynasty. Although it is not very precious, it is really not easy to make a duck-shaped cup.

Especially if you want to make a Tang Sancai duck-shaped cup, if it is still a Gongyao duck-shaped cup, then you must know the mouth of this kiln and this kind of cup.

The general style is that the duck lies on the ground and holds the cup with its mouth when it turns its head.

The body of the cup is decorated with a circle pattern, which symbolizes the sprouting of five grains and is a symbol of good luck.

In [-], in Xing City, Beihe City, in a place called Wangyao Village, Shiliting Town, an ancient tomb was discovered in a farmland that was exposed by the rain.

After rescue cleaning by archaeologists, it was found that the tomb was an arc-shaped, pointed-top tomb.

After opening the tomb, two pottery pots, one celadon porcelain bowl, and a duck-shaped cup were unearthed.

Judging from the unearthed artifacts, tomb bricks and tomb shape, the age of the tomb is Sui-Early Tang.

Hebei belonged to Yanzhao in ancient times, with profound cultural heritage, a long history, and rich and colorful material cultural heritage, among which there is no lack of eye-catching Tang style and Tang rhyme.

To talk about fine ceramics of this era, we cannot leave aside the Qiong Kiln.

During the Spring Festival in 2006, at the first CCTV competition held by CCTV, a collector of Qiong Kiln won the bronze award for his prismatic water bowl with red melon in glaze and was known as "the most red in the world".

Qiong Kiln was excavated in the 30s, and after two seminars on ancient ceramics since the 80s, it once again attracted the attention of the world.

In fact, such copper-red glazed Qiong kiln wares and their fragments have been seen from time to time in archaeological excavations of Qiong kiln in the past.

Because the firing skills of Qiong kiln reached a considerable height in the Tang Dynasty, and on this basis, they achieved a new leap in the Five Dynasties period.

During the period from Tang to Five Dynasties, the economy of Sichuandu Plain was developed, which promoted the prosperity of the city and provided direct impetus and market space for the development of the ceramic industry.

At that time, the dragon kiln, which was widely used in Qiong kiln, was further improved.

At that time, the kiln body consisting of fire chamber, kiln chamber, smoke exhaust hole and chimney was lengthened, and the slope of the kiln bed was reduced to save fuel, balance kiln temperature, improve quality and increase output.

Such a large dragon kiln can hold and burn tens of thousands of pieces of porcelain at a time.

In the 80s of last century, during the archaeological excavation of Shifangtang, nine dragon kilns of different lengths in different periods were discovered.

In the cultural layer of the Tang Dynasty included in the No. 5 kiln, a small steamed bun kiln also appeared, which was the harbinger of the creation and firing of high-end products in the late Tang and Five Dynasties.

The remnant sagger with the inscription "the sixth year of Zhenyuan" collected from the ruins shows that the technique of filling and firing saggers in Qiong Kiln in Tang Dynasty has been popularized.

Moreover, the support nails are reduced and smaller, which avoids the pollution of smoke and dust to the body, makes the shape of the vessel more correct, the glaze surface is smoother, and the quality is comprehensively improved.

Due to the continuous improvement of molding technology, especially in the Five Dynasties period, the knife method of making utensils was sharper, the lines were tougher, and the carcass texture gradually changed from thick and heavy to light and delicate.

In terms of the shape of the feet, except for a few ring feet and jade-bi-shaped feet, the pie-shaped shape of the feet is still the main shape, which is different from other kiln mouths.

Moreover, the Qiong kiln is more prominent than other kilns in that it mainly uses utensils for daily life.

The categories and shapes are even more colorful.

In terms of shape, Qiong Kiln in the Tang Dynasty, like other kilns, has the characteristics of a grand and round era.

Its typical utensils include large cake-footed bowls, short-flow pots, high-footed cups, multi-footed inkstones, etc.

In the late Tang and Five Dynasties, in addition to bowls, plates, pots, cups, water bowls, etc., the appearance of porcelain figures and animal toys has already broken through the daily use of ceramics and has begun to enter the realm of art.

The deep belly, straight mouth, and flat bottom of Sui bowls have changed to the shape of a wide mouth (petal-shaped in some cases), curved belly, thin wall, and cake feet.

However, ring feet and jade bi feet did not appear until the Five Dynasties, which seems to be "half a beat slower" than other kiln mouths.

Such as cake foot bowl, celadon flower mouth bowl, jade bi celadon bowl.

Then there is the cup, which is different from the deep belly, tall trumpet, and ring-foot cups that were popular imitating gold and silverware at that time.

Such as "Linqiong" cup.

The "duck cup" imitating the shape of animals is a unique shape of Qiong Kiln.

The third is the holding pot, which is a new type of porcelain that appeared in the Tang Dynasty.

Its shape and size are different, some are as tall and round as a can, and some are as thin as a bottle.

Its flow is neither the shallow mouth before the Sui Dynasty nor the long and long meandering flow of the Song Dynasty.

Then there is Zhuzi. The large number of Zhuzi appeared is more related to the tea drinking style and changes in the way at that time.

The shape of Qiong kiln Zhuzi is similar to a flat and round pot, mostly double-lined, straight mouth, and short straight.

It is rare to see Zhuzi with a narrow mouth and a flat bottom, as well as matching saucers and tea cups.

The shape of this kind of tea set popular in the Tang Dynasty is different from that of the purple sand and tureen in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

But it directly affected the development of tea drinking utensils and methods in Japan and Korea.

Influenced by the Buddhist carvings in the caves, the figure modeling of the porcelain sculptures in the Tang Dynasty has changed the style of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, showing a kind of plump or heroic aesthetic orientation of the Tang Dynasty.

The Qiong kiln porcelain sculptures of the Tang and Five Dynasties are mostly small and lively dolls such as children or monkeys, dogs, birds, and turtles, full of secular life and fun.

Of course, there is also no shortage of lively and varied character shapes.

Such as Tang Dynasty dancing figurines and figurines holding balls.

The Huren figurines and Huren figurines with horns, etc., reflect the active foreign exchange of Qionglai (Linqiong) at that time and the influence of multiculturalism on the development of Qiongyao.

Lifting beam cups and oil-saving lamps should be regarded as another representative utensils of Qiong Kiln.

(End of this chapter)