My system is not decent

Chapter 1654
After Cai Ling passed away, the kiln in the Longquan area was changed to a government-business joint venture.

However, after a setback, he fell into a slump and died to rest.

However, the style of its production strives for modernization, which is different from antiques.

After the German missionary Bender publicized the unearthed goods, outsiders competed to purchase them, and the supply exceeded the demand.

Liao Xianzhong, a native of the city, was the first to imitate the antiques, which could be mistaken for the real ones, and he was the first of its kind in modern times.

There are also Chen Zuohan, Li Junyi, etc., who also built two kilns, which made the original daily necessities, and then imitated the ancient legal utensils of the big kiln.

Such as furnace bottles, pots, crock boxes, etc., there are many styles and styles.

Furnaces include Li furnaces, straight cylinder furnaces, tripod furnaces, flat furnaces, Yi furnaces, heart-through furnaces, and drum nail furnaces.

The bottles include dragon and tiger bottles, five virtue bottles, three tube bottles, peony bottles, celestial ball bottles, and phoenix ear bottles.

The pots include Pisces wash, plum pots and chrysanthemum pots.

There are goldfish tanks and drum tanks.

The boxes include Guangsu ink pad box, Yunhe ink pad box, Shanshui ink pad box and so on.

All imitate the broken style of the second chapter.

The glaze colors are pink blue, sky blue, or emerald green, or stippling.

But Meiziqing, Baihu, Pianwen, and Caviar pattern are not easy to imitate.

In particular, the fetal bone is too thick, there is uneven glaze in between, and black spots are mixed in the soil, and the bottom and feet are burnt purple. Compared with the genuine products, it is unforgettable.

However, those who choose its essence can be soaked in acid to remove its new light, and it can also be mixed with pearls.

The coincidence, that is, connoisseurs are also at a loss.

And such works, before the Anti-Japanese War, can be said to have flooded the market.

From this we can also see how powerful the antique technology in the Republic of China was.

Although in the period of the Republic of China, Western ceramics defeated Eastern ceramics, this was only for daily-use porcelain.

Before the late Qing Dynasty, Westerners imported a large amount of daily-use porcelain from my country, and basically did not involve antiques.

But after the late Qing Dynasty, Westerners were particularly interested in Chinese antiques.

The most representative of them is porcelain, after all, porcelain is not easy to be damaged by time erosion.

There is a document that records the purchase of porcelain by Stephen Buscher, a British doctor.

He was sent to my country in 1868 as a doctor at the British Legation in China.

At the same time, he also accepted a commission to purchase Chinese handicrafts.

The client was the now famous Victoria and Albert Museum, which was also called the South Kensington Museum at the time.

Buscher has worked in my country for 30 years, researching Chinese culture and purchasing Chinese handicrafts in addition to diagnosis.

In 1882 he handed over the acquisition of 253 sets of Chinese handicrafts to the museum, most of which were porcelain.

And this is not an isolated case, it is a common phenomenon in Western countries.

Where there is demand, there is market.

Western countries are flocking to our country's antiques, which has led to the rise of my country's antique industry, especially antique porcelain.

In the antique porcelain technology, the most representative is the bottoming technology.

Now Chen Wenzhe is planting a small bright yellow bowl, which is a work that clearly connects to the bottom.

Chen Wenzhe used to work on restoring porcelain, but he has mastered the bottom-jointing technique to the master level, so he understands this technique very well.

The reason why this technology was born in the period of the Republic of China is that the bottom of porcelain is often an important basis for judging porcelain.

Most people will check the authenticity of porcelain through the bottom of the porcelain.

The bottoming technique is just to confuse those who only look at the bottom of the porcelain.

Under normal circumstances, the porcelain itself can be judged by the bottom of the porcelain based on the following three points.

For most porcelain, the surface will be covered with a layer of glaze, and the information on the porcelain body will be covered by the glaze.

However, if there is no glaze around the base of the porcelain, the most direct information about the carcass can be obtained through the base.

The bottom of official kiln porcelain is often accompanied by a style number, such as the six characters "Daming Chenghua Annual System" written on the bottom of Chenghua Doucai Chicken Crock Cup.

The bottom of folk porcelain often does not write the year, but just draws a leaf or a circle.

In addition to the style number, the age of the porcelain can also be seen from the writing details.

Some craftsmanship details, features and traces left by hand at the bottom can also be the basis for judging the age of a piece of porcelain.

The reason why the bottom joint is so popular is that besides the fact that many people judge the porcelain itself through the bottom of the porcelain, there is another important feature, that is, the quantity is large and the price is low and the preservation is complete!

The bottom of the porcelain is very difficult to damage. First, the bottom should be used as a support for the porcelain, and it is relatively thick;

Secondly, the bottom area is relatively small and concealed, so it is not easy to be damaged by outside.

Therefore, in most cases, even if the porcelain is seriously damaged, the bottom is often well preserved, which leads to the large quantity of ancient porcelain bottoms and low prices.

In the antique market in Jingzhen today, you can often see a large number of porcelain bowl bottoms from the Song Dynasty and Ming and Qing Dynasties.

These bowls have polished bottoms and are sold as lids or cup holders at low prices to those interested in ancient porcelain.

While picking bottoms is a good business, there are two major difficulties.

First, porcelain firing has great shrinkage, so it is very difficult to fire a bowl body that can perfectly match the bottom of the bowl;

Second, the bottom of the joint must be so that no one can see the gap.

The above difficulties will make ordinary people daunting, but it will not be difficult for counterfeiters.

The process of connecting the bottom is roughly like this. First, imitate several complete pieces of porcelain, choose the most suitable one, cut off the bottom, and smooth the inner wall of the cut.

Afterwards, the corresponding edge of the old bottom is smoothed to match the incision, and then stuffed into the bottom of the porcelain and glued, it fits tightly without showing any traces.

Although it is simple to describe in words, it is quite a test for the opponent to use kung fu.

Bottom connection is just the tip of the iceberg of antique porcelain. Antique porcelain was very prosperous in the period of the Republic of China.

Although this is not a very glorious thing, many porcelain-making techniques are often preserved in this way, which has a positive effect on Jingzhen's handicraft industry.

Even so, the period of the Republic of China was also the lowest period in the history of my country's ceramic production and development.

The development of my country's ceramic industry in Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties has a process of recovery, development, heyday and decline.

But in the period of the Republic of China, the entire ceramic industry has been in a downturn, and the production of porcelain has shown a trend of overall decline.

In order to imitate the feudal dynasty, Yuan Datou established a royal kiln factory in Jingzhen, and sent Guo Baochang to supervise the kiln affairs. The center of the ceramic industry is still in Jingzhen.

To a certain extent, these porcelains maintain the exquisiteness and delicacy of traditional official kiln porcelain.

But on the whole, the workmanship is inferior, and the degree of exquisiteness is not even as good as that of late Qing porcelain, which has declined in workmanship.

However, due to the acquisition of antiques abroad, antiques became popular during the Republic of China.

But blue and white, colorful and pastel are the mainstream.

One reason is that after the decline of the official kilns, the kiln workers dispersed to the people.

Imperial utensils that were not allowed to be made by the people in the past are now casually fired.

Therefore, imitating official kilns is no longer blocked;

The second is driven by interests. From the Three Kingdoms and Jin Dynasties to Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing, there are no imitations, and the number is extremely large.

(End of this chapter)