Porcelain has the saying of "Ming see Chenghua, Qing look at Yongzheng", so what changes have chenghua porcelain changed compared with the previous generation, what are the specific characteristics, and how to distinguish it?
Doucai flower bird pattern goblet
After Xuande, after the development of Orthodox, Jingtai and Tianshun in the past thirty years, most of them have changed their appearance of Xiongjian and Bold during the Chenghua years. At this time, the shape of the porcelain is exquisite and exquisite, the carcass is fine and crystalline, the color selection is pure, the tone is soft and quiet, the painting is elegant, and the style of light and elegant is unique. It can be seen from the heirlooms that at that time, great attention was paid to quality, and most of the unqualified porcelain was destroyed, so it was rare to see maladies such as deformation and glaze reduction. Folk kiln ware is also influenced by the official kiln, the production is exquisite, most of them copy the official kiln works, ornamentation, color, calligraphy and painting are the same.
Chenghua qinghua mostly uses "equal blue" raw materials, gray and blue, light and soft, stable color, and has a profound impact on future generations of blue and whiteware. Doucai porcelain is fired more successfully at this time, and the underglaze blue and white are combined with the glaze color, competing for glory. The "Purple Purple" variety in color is even more distinctive, which can be described as a symbol of the Chenghua generation. The tender and elegant multicolored instruments and doucai reflect each other, and there is a similar magic.
Tianzi style Doucai wave Tianma lid jar
Chenghua official kilns have few large utensils (many folk kilns are large utensils), and the common utensils are mainly goblets, wine glasses, plates, bowls, and cans, because the wind of wine tasting is prevalent at this time. Heirlooms are mostly found in cups, the type of utensils is small and exquisite, and the "tian" character cans in the cans are particularly valuable.
Blue and white grass pattern jar
Carcass characteristics
The carcass of jingdezhen chenghua period is delicate and pure, most of the carcass is light and thin, the tire is regular, the tire is thick, the quality is like beautiful jade, the tire is thin, and the exquisite body is transparent. At the same time, under the perspective of the light, the carcass shows the color of flesh and river, which is a common feature of the carcass of the Ming Dynasty, and it is also a feature that cannot be ignored when distinguishing it from the Imitation Porcelain. Commonly exposed unglazed bottom feet, there are more yellow-brown or black-brown spots, called "rice paste bottom", which is also a unique phenomenon of the carver.
Glazed porcelain glaze is seen in fine texture, most of the blue and white glaze is slightly flashing blue or slightly grayish blue, another white glaze, also known as "milky white" or "sweet white", not only thick and moist, but also smooth and flawless, such as fat like jade, the mouth of the utensils along the common downward flow to form a circle of stacked glaze.
Bucket color tangled lotus pattern jar
Tianzi model
Identification features
Chenghua porcelain shape is only heavy and ingenious, such as the most famous Doucai flower and bird goblet, chicken bowl cup, Gao Shihuai, Sanqiu Huai, Tianzi jar, etc., are all representatives of Qingxiu abnormality, if you can be familiar with the shape of the typical instruments of the Chenghua period, carefully understand its demeanor and charm, it is undoubtedly the greatest help to identify Chenghua porcelain. Chenghua porcelain tires are refined, its tire quality is pure and delicate, the body is light and thin, the light perspective is tooth white or meat tank color; the sleeves are thick, such as fat like milk, smooth and shiny. When Chenghua blue and white porcelain was unique, it was popular in the world with a light and calm tone, but often because of the hypertrophy of the enamel, the blue and white color was light, and there was a phenomenon of clouds obscuring the fog, and the blue and white color of the bottom foot was particularly prominent, and among the blue and white, the tone was strong near the late Xuande period. The porcelain ornamentation lines of Chenghua are slender, round and beautiful, especially the doucai is the most prominent, and its elegant state, such as light song and dance, is light and timeless; and its "purple" color has unique characteristics of the times.
For the Chenghua Doucai ware, Mr. Sun Yingzhou once had such a tip: "Bright red and light smeared with green and yellow, thick purple but no light." In the ornamentation, there began to appear regular patterns of baoxiang flowers, tuanhua, etc., and a large number of decorative techniques such as symmetry and continuity were used. The foot of the heel is generally thin and deep, and where the blue and white edge line is decorated, although the height of the circle foot is different, it has the same phenomenon, that is, the blue and white bilateral lines are very regular, close to the bottom of the foot; and the circle line near the unglazed place of the heel, the color is darker, and the upper one is light, and although the "bilateral line characteristics" of the instrument foot are even obtained, in the blue and white porcelain seen in the chenghua porcelain, eight out of ten is more or less so. For the utensils that have no money at this time, it is especially advisable to use this feature to make a reference for identification, and the literacy body of the Chenghua official kiln ware is upright and powerful, as if it comes from the hand of one person, it should be pointed out in particular that the font style of the Chenghua official kiln is prominent, and all the latecomers have failed to obtain its essence, so if you look at the style of the model, you can determine its approximate.
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