Doucai began in Ming Xuande and flourished in the Chenghua period, and is also called "five colors in the kiln" or "five colors between blue and white" in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Although the imitations of the past generations are extremely ingenious, it is difficult to reach the realm of "chenghua". In the spring auction of 2014, it was auctioned for 280 million Hong Kong dollars, why is it so expensive?
Ming Chenghua Doucai Chicken Bowl Cup
Fighting
Doucai bean color is funny, three headshots a number.
The head color is fired twice in the kiln, and the blank is painted with green material first.
The blue and white compound is glazed with color, and the brush is wonderful when touched.
Qing Yongzheng Doucai Cloud Dragon Pattern Lid Jar - Forbidden City, Beijing
note
In the book, Doucai, Bean Cai, and Comic Cai are one meaning - it is the meaning of blue and white and other colors douyan, which is glaze color, and the hand touch has a sense of blocking. Generally speaking, the border is burned with blue and white material first, and then filled with other pigments for the second time.
Qing Yongzheng Doucai Ruyi Ear Garlic Bottle - Forbidden City, Beijing
Chenghua Doucai
Chenghua Doucai is filled with expensive, and the leaves and flowers are only painted on the front.
The color change of the flower heart is revealed, and the book is deeply recognized.
Ming Chenghua blue and white bucket color falling flower flowing water pattern cup
Chenghua Doucai fills in good color for noble, leaves, flowers only give the front, not paint the side. The flower buds are not necessarily yellow, but are used in various colors. The book is heavy and deep into the surface of the fetus.
Ming Chenghua Doucai Tangled Lotus Pattern Goblet - Forbidden City, Beijing
Chenghua Doucai imitation said
Chenghua Doucai descendants love, Ming imitation Doucai is dense and thick.
Not enough sparse color is too colorful, Kangxi imitations are vulgar.
Not exquisite enough to be proud, Yongzheng imitation is the most mature.
Imitations are developed as they really are, and the higher price is heterogeneous.
Imitations can not be really seen, which means to appreciate people's spirits.
Ming Jiajing Doucai Lingzhi Pattern Plate - Forbidden City, Beijing
Qing Kangxi imitation into a fighting color chicken bowl cup - Beijing Forbidden City
Chenghua Doucai is very expensive, in the later period there are many imitations, the Ming Dynasty imitation is dense and dense, not loose enough, Kangxi imitations are vulgar and not exquisite, not proud.
Qing Yongzheng imitated into a chemical bucket color lid jar - Forbidden City in Beijing
Yongzheng imitation is the best, such as the real thing, but the imitations are different from chemicals, tires, materials, models, etc., but the fighting colors of the past generations are more expensive, and some descendants of imitations are innovative in the shape of the instrument, and the good ones are also very valuable, and the allegorical pictures on the porcelain are more.
Qingqianlong Doucai Lotus Pattern "Shou" Character Gourd Bottle - Collection of the Forbidden City in Beijing
Chenghua bucket color color
Goose yellow is translucent and slightly green, and apricot yellow is slightly red.
Ginger yellow thick luster weak, wax yellow slightly transparent.
Pine green is thick and shiny green, and peacocks are light green and transparent.
The water-green leaves are green and the mountains are green, slightly glittering and yellowish and transparent.
The ochre purple is dark and purple, and the grape purple is really transparent.
The red is bright red as blood, and the lightless dim is ochre red.
The thickness is uneven and the oil is thick and red, and the light is opaque in the color.
Ming Chenghua Doucai Gaoshitu Cup - Collection of the Forbidden City in Beijing
Goose yellow: delicate and transparent, the color is a little green; apricot yellow is a little flashy red; ginger yellow is thick, the luster is not strong;
Wax yellow is slightly transparent, pine green thick flash cyan; peacock green is light green and transparent, aqua green, leaf green.
Ming Chenghua Doucai Sanqiu Pair Cup - Forbidden City, Beijing
The mountain stone is greenish yellowish and transparent, ochre purple is dark, purple is thick and lightless, grape color is very real and transparent, red is like blood, thickness is uneven, oil red is often colored, red is bright but opaque.
Paint more frontal flowers, and the flower buds are often used in various colors, not necessarily yellow.
Ming Chenghua Doucai Kaiguang Folding Branch Lotus Pattern Jar - Forbidden City, Beijing
Chenghua Doucai is a must-have
Chenghua bucket color three unique, purple and reddish reddish iron thick.
The purple is rich but dull, and the bright red is thick and opaque.
Ochre is brownish purple, two purples and one red.
Ming Dynasty Chenghua Doucai Lingzhi pattern flower bowl
There are three kinds of colors in Doucai that are invented by Chenghua and are also praised by future generations for not being easy to imitate. That is, the purple is red and red, but not bright; the ochre is brown and purple; bright red like chicken blood, and the color is thick and opaque. That is to say, some are not bright, some are opaque, and it is necessary to distinguish.
Ming Chenghua Doucai Ruyi pattern small plate
Ming Chenghua Doucai grape melon vine pattern cup
Characteristics of the filler process
The colored green pen draws the frame first, and the glaze is glazed after the yin carving.
First paint the skeleton and then fill the glaze, and use the carving and engraving.
Ming Chenghua blue and white doucai chicken bowl cup (unpainted) part
Color filling is a kind of painting and coloring process, painting, carving, carving out the picture, and then painting colored porcelain.
Chenghua blue and white devices
Chenghua mostly uses equal green, and the small brush touches the double line clear.
A stroke of smear color filling method, the level is not as good as Xuande jing.
Xuande left blank into no, thin and not thick how clever and light.
The glaze on the chenghua is called two colors, and the other is a heavy color bluish.
Both appear fat as jade, and the second is white and slightly green.
The bottom of the glaze has a wavy feeling, and the bubbles are small and neat.
Two words and four words more than fake models, the bottom of the paste rice should be seen clearly.
In the early days of Chenghua, there were Su materials, don't just recognize Ping Qing.
Ming Chenghua blue and white dragon pattern disc side
During the Ming Dynasty, most of the double coils were painted with equal blue, and the pattern was decorated with small strokes to draw double coils, and the layering of the figure was double coils, the upper circle was thick, the lower circle was thin, and a brush stroke was also used, but it was not as good as Xuande's painting.
Ming Chenghua Qinghua Mountain Stone Floral Pattern Lid Jar - Forbidden City, Beijing
Mingchenghua blue and white marshmallow pattern bowl - Osaka City Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Japan
Ming Chenghua Blue and White Pegasus Pattern Bowl - Jingdezhen Archaeological Collection
Chenghua leaves few white pieces, the device tire is thin, the glaze is flat and blue, it is fat as jade, it is not so fat when it is white, there are wavy traces at the bottom, the bubbles are small and neat, and most of the two-word and four-character models are pseudo-imitations.
Ming Chenghua Doucai Gaoshitu cup bottom
Ming Chenghua Doucai seawater exotic beast pattern jar bottom
Ming Chenghua Doucai open light folding branch lotus pattern jar bottom
Ming Chenghua imitation ge kiln eight square goblet bottom
Ming Chenghua peacock green glaze blue flower lily fish pattern bottom
Ming Chenghua blue and white Sanskrit cup bottom
Ming Dynasty Chenghua Doucai Lingzhi pattern tuanhua bowl bottom
Ming Chenghua Doucai Sea Monster Pattern Plate
When chenghua appears to use more paste rice bottom, green materials sometimes use Su material or Su material mixture, paste rice bottom is one of the characteristics, can not only think that Chenghua is all equal green materials.
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