Wucai is one of the famous varieties of Ming Jiajing (1522~1566) colored porcelain. The main colors are red, yellow, purple, green, peacock blue, orange red and so on. The hue is pure and colorful, which can be compared with the famous Yongle and Xuande blue and white porcelain. However, compared with similar porcelain in the official kiln, due to the large production volume, the painting work is somewhat rough.
Colorful is one of the most famous varieties in Jiajing. Although the preciousness of Jiajing glaze color cannot be compared with Xuande Wucai and Chenghua Doucai, it is unprecedented in terms of its variety and the development of folk kiln color porcelain production.
Colorful character story round lid box
The production of porcelain in the Jiajing Dynasty was the largest in the Ming Dynasty, and due to the practice of "official burning with the people", there was a situation in which the official kilns and the people's kilns competed for firing. At the same time, the external output of porcelain has also greatly stimulated and promoted the innovation of ceramic varieties. The "Jingdezhen Taolu" records: "The production of Yikao, there is nothing and nothing. ”
Jiajing multicolored utensils have plates, bowls, cups, boxes, bottles, cans and so on. There are goblets, square cups, and round cups. Boxes include box box, round box and so on. Bottles have gourd bottles. The jars have square lid jars, melon ridge jars, flat cans, and round cans. There are also furnaces, cylinders, vases, etc. The process of these square products is complex and the firing is more difficult, so although the production of square utensils in the Jiajing period is not very regular, there is a phenomenon of clamping flat and warping, but it also shows the more mature production process of the Jiajing Dynasty.
Most of the ornaments in the Jiajing period use the double-line outline filling method, and the contour lines are relatively hard, because the phenomenon of back-green material diffusion is serious, and the blue and white filling color will often emerge outside the line;
The decoration of Jiajing multicolored porcelain is rich in content, including patterns with dragons and phoenixes as the main body and water waves and auspicious clouds, as well as patterns with flowers, birds and birds as the theme, and patterns with baby plays or character stories as the theme.
The ornamentation of the utensils in this period is immature, and there is no sense of grandeur in the original period; the ornamentation has become more cumbersome, and the picture is even more layered.
The colors used in Jiajing Five Colors are yellow, red, green, purple, peacock green, black color and other colors, of which red, green and yellow are the three main colors, and some are also decorated with blue flowers and gold colors, but the gold colors have fallen off, and the decorations are colorful and strong, and the contrast is strong.
This object is a reflux boutique Jiajing multicolored, 14.5cm high, 13cm in diameter, which can be described as the peak of the Ming Dynasty. Its hue is won by red and green, pure and gorgeous, and it is a breakthrough in the firing of colored porcelain. Among them, the elite can be compared with the outstanding Yongxuan Qinghua. The colors used in Jiajing are red, yellow, blue, green, purple, black, and peacock green, interspersed with blue flowers, of which the red color is jujube red, often supported by yellow color, and the two overlap and merge to form a condensed and introverted orange-red color. Decorated with the multicolored colors of blue and white, the blue and white hues are rich, the blue is purple, and the tone is jujube red, big green, and ochre purple, which is strongly contrasted, making it simple and lush to present a kind of emotional exuberant vitality.
Jiajing colorful color has blue and white, alum red color, and even other colors, of which the official kiln is mainly blue and white six-character double-line lettering, normally written at the bottom of the utensils, most of the characters do not have an outer frame, and a few outer books have double frames or double circles.
The Jiajing period was a critical period for the Ming Dynasty to turn from prosperity to decline. Although the Jiajing porcelain industry was prosperous, the level of porcelain was relatively regressive, but it was still relatively famous in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. Therefore, Jiajing Colorful is also very expensive in the market at present, and the auction market has repeatedly reached new highs.
As early as November 27, 2017, Christie's Hong Kong Autumn Auction had a Ming Jiajing multicolored fish and algae pattern can auctioned for 213 million yuan
The five-colored porcelain of the Ming Dynasty has won the essence of Chinese ceramic art for nearly a thousand years, from the beginning to the development to maturity, from Hongwu, Yongle to Jiajing and Wanli, whether it is the pigment of five-colored porcelain, or the painting process and firing process, it has reached the peak stage in history, and has made outstanding contributions to the development history of Chinese ceramic art.