Chapter 668 Boneless Painting
The old man is also a great expert, and he immediately reported two features that were different from the original: "So except for the glaze, nothing else can escape the limitations of the Yongzheng imitation."
"Then the level of counterfeiting is not high?" Brother Yu, who was listening in confusion, asked when he saw the two of them picking out a lot of faults.
"Hahahahaha..." Mr. Yu and Zhou Zhi seemed to have heard a big joke, jumping up and down with joy, and laughing so hard that Brother Yu and Sister Xiaoli were confused.
After laughing for a while, Zhou Zhi held his belly in his hands and said: "Brother Yu, all dynasties have imitated the five imperial tribute porcelains of the Song Dynasty. The imitation reached its peak during the Yongzheng period, and any further breakthroughs will be achieved. It’s a very difficult thing.”
"Although Founding Porcelain is a tribute to the founding of the country by concentrating the efforts of the whole country, we must also consider the issue of yield. This problem can only be solved by changing the tire, kiln temperature and glaze formula."
"But all of these are Changed, imitated The things that come are not the same. How to ensure the yield and ensure that the imitation can be as good as the real one? "
"What if I don't pursue the yield and focus on the imitation? " Brother Yu argued hard.
“This involves time costs.” Zhou Zhi smiled and said: “Let’s not talk about the restoration of the porcelain clay formula and the restoration of the glaze color formula. It is not simple to just talk about a native aging process. "
"Why did we just talk about Xiang Hui Ti? That's Song Dynasty? The characteristics of porcelain soil." Mr. Yu knew that the third brother and the sixth sister could not understand, so he patiently explained: "The ancients did not have many purification processes like modern people. The embryonic soil they used to make porcelain was mined, roasted, and crushed. The process of removing impurities is water bleaching and mud rolling. ”
"Then they are made into mud bricks and stacked in a cool place. It will take at least three to five years, and more than ten or even decades, to allow some slow chemical reactions to occur and allow the impurities to decompose."< br>
"After a while, the workshop will make this Take out some old mud, mix it with new mud, and repeat the process."
"Can you make a porcelain body made of such mud?" Mr. Yu said with a smile. If you don’t pursue the yield, the toad yawns so loudly!”< br>
“This is just an example of fetal soil.” Zhou Zhi said: “The rest of the glaze, the shape of the kiln mouth, the use of firewood, the firing season, the fire and oxygen control technology, etc., need to explore the entire set of ancient techniques. , and then use the ancient method to produce a product that is exactly the same as the ancient porcelain regardless of the yield. The porcelain comes from... It is just asking for trouble, and it is almost impossible.”
“So no matter which dynasty, they all follow the path of 'imitation of the old with the new', which is the most typical example. It’s the island country’s Longquan celadon bowl.”
"What kind of story is this?" Brother Yu realized that there was too much knowledge in this business.
"Which period was the most powerful in the Ming Dynasty?" Zhou Zhi asked.
“Of course it’s Yongle.” Brother Yu said.
“During the Yongle period, there was a shogunate named Ashikaga Yoshimasa in what is now the island country, and he got a celadon bowl that was first enshrined in the Yuwangshan Temple in Lin’an in the Southern Song Dynasty.”
“But This bowl has been passed down in Japan for two hundred years and has a big crack.”
"Ashikaga Yoshimasa felt very sorry, so he took the opportunity of sending envoys to bring the bowl to China and asked the Ming government to re-fire an identical one."
"Emperor Yongle asked the officials , let them look for famous craftsmen Ashikaga Yoshimasa asked a lot, but the answer turned out to be that the craftsmanship had been lost, and the craftsmen of the Yongle Dynasty could not make such a large bowl with glaze color!"
"So Emperor Yongle had no choice but to make it! Order someone to repair the bowl with curium nails After making up for it, he returned it to the island country. Because the baking nails left on the bowl were shaped like leech, it was called 'Leech Trip' in the island country."
Sange Yu was dumbfounded when he heard this. Is it true? A big battle in a bowl? Don’t you want to come out?”
“Really, Ito Toya, a Confucian scholar in the Edo period, wrote a special article called “The Story of a Leech Stuck in a Tea Ou” Recorded this incident.”
"The literati in ancient times liked to make up stories." Brother Yu still shook his head: "This is too exaggerated and too funny..." "But this is not a story." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "This thing is now in the Tokyo National Museum. , the island country regards it as a national treasure.”
“Huh?” Brother Yu opened his mouth and was speechless.
“So the difficulty of restoring the craftsmanship is much greater than the difficulty of restoring the finished product. That road is difficult to walk. It took more than three hundred years from the Southern Song Dynasty to Yongle, and the technological iteration of the feudal dynasty was still very slow. That’s it. The craftsmanship cannot be restored." Zhou Zhi spread his hands and said, "So Third Brother, do you know how difficult it is to make this porcelain?"
"How much is this porcelain worth?"
"Tacky!" Mr. Yu scolded: "You'd better put this thing in my place. I have a locked room there. I can't make trouble with it. What's the other thing?"
"Originally The Cong-style bottle is for Sister Xiaoliu." Zhou Zhi opened the other one. There was a much smaller brocade box outside: "This is the one for you."
In the eyes of Brother Yu San and Sister Xiaoliu, what Zhou Zhi took out was a common white porcelain cup in the office. The only thing The difference is that the peach blossoms, young leaves and birds on the porcelain cup are so beautiful.
"This is..." Even though Mr. Yu is well-informed, he has never seen this thing before.
But his eyesight is there: "This is pastel glaze porcelain, no, this color is weird, is this... the craftsmanship of the Eight Friends of Zhushan?"
When I looked through the bottom, I saw a simple blue and white double circle with four square seal characters "Jingdecheng System" inside.
"This cup is so beautifully painted." The cup was occupied by Mr. Yu, and there was only one lid. Sister Liu and Brother Yu took turns looking at it.
Although they don’t understand, the painting work is so delicate and precise, and the porcelain is so close to the boneless flower painting method in the traditional Chinese painting tradition. The two of them still understand the quality of the thing.
Zhou Zhi gave a thumbs up: "The old man is awesome! This is Fan Tianxin, a student of Master Liu Yucen, the Eight Friends of Zhushan. After inheriting his pointillism painting method and making a breakthrough in the glaze formula of the Porcelain Research Institute, A special stippling technique created by Qing Yulan."
"Indeed." The old man turned the cup: "The technique of boneless flowers is displayed on the porcelain, and a layer of white glaze is added to protect the color."< br>
"Is this difficult?" Yu Sanxiaobai asked again.
“The method of painting boneless flowers has been around since the Song Dynasty, but the result has not been expressed on porcelain for thousands of years.” The old man shook his head and sighed: “It wasn’t until the appearance of Yongzheng pastel that there was some boneless painting. However, in terms of the excessive shading, it can only be said to be unsatisfactory.”
“The one that truly qualifies as a ‘boneless painting’ is just the elbow. Liu Yucen said that it was not until his 20s that he was almost fully mature and able to truly demonstrate the technique of traditional Chinese painting on porcelain."
After speaking, he shook his head and said, "This painter is no worse than the Eight Friends of Zhushan. "
"This painting method is not complicated at all. To put it bluntly, it is actually about finding a glaze that can blend into the white glass," Zhou Zhi said.
"First use glass white to draw the shapes of flowers and plants, and then use watercolor to dye the glass white for the second time. As long as you draw accurately and lightly, you can get the effect of watercolor."
"But the glaze before The red color in the picture is not accurate. It is either more orange-red or more vermilion-red, but it is not true red or water-red."
"The Porcelain Research Institute set up a special research project to finally solve the problem. To solve this problem, we developed the pure red and water red colors that have excellent performance and can be used in the boneless color process, and then we have the water-dotted peach blossom and water-dotted plum blossom in 7501 engineering porcelain.”
“Later. This batch of porcelain was sent to Jurentang, a research institute and porcelain factory affiliated with the Gan Provincial Department of Light Industry, and was quietly called 'Mao Porcelain'."
(End of Chapter)