What are the characteristics of Dingyao porcelain Dingyao porcelain

The tire of the kiln is thin and light, the tire color is white and yellowish, firm, not too transparent, the glaze is beige, the glaze is very thin, and the tire can be seen. The glaze color is white and crystalline, and many of the glaze shapes are like tear stains, which are called "wax tear stains", and the yellow-green color is faint. In the place of thin glaze on the outer wall of the utensil, you can see the spin blank marks on the tire, commonly known as "bamboo silk whiskering".

Northern song dynasty. In the early stage, there is glaze along the mouth of the kiln products, and in the late period, the mouth of the utensils is not glazed, which is called "mangkou", and the mangkou is often inlaid with gold, silver and copper edge rings to cover up the defects of the mangkou, which is a major feature of the kiln.

Decorative patterns. The kiln ware is loved by people for its colorful pattern decoration. The decoration techniques are mainly white glaze printing, white glaze engraving and white glaze scratching, as well as white glaze ticking flowers and gold color depictions, and the patterns are beautiful and elegant.

In the early Northern Song Dynasty, the carving, composition and pattern of the kiln became simplified, with the heavy lotus petal pattern being the majority, and the beauty of bas-relief carving. The carved flowers in the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty are exquisite and unique.

Decorative patterns are often printed, scratched and piled up, beautiful and elegant. Printed patterns, natural forms are cleverly deformed, and the composition is rigorous; Carved flowers, more lively and vivid than prints, unique.

1. Tear stains

Tear stains refer to the phenomenon of glaze on the surface of the vessel, and the glaze of porcelain is often strip-shaped, like weeping, so it is called tear stains. The tear stain phenomenon is only seen in the Ding kiln ware of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the Ding porcelain from the Tang Dynasty to the Five Dynasties does not have this characteristic. The glaze of the Tang Dynasty porcelain is thin and white, and the tire glaze is very tightly combined, and there is no glaze phenomenon; In the Northern Song Dynasty, it was thick and yellowish, the bubbles in the glaze were large and numerous, and the glaze layer flowed with the vessel during the sintering process, forming tear stains.

2. Bamboo wire brush marks

On the outer wall of the bowl and disc utensils of the kiln, you can often see the scratches that are as fine as bamboo wire, and these scratches are left when the blank is processed after the initial formation of the utensils, of course, the blank marks can also be seen on the outer wall of the utensils at the mouth of other kilns, but they are not as fine and dense as the kiln, which is a characteristic of identifying the kiln utensils.

The Northern Song Dynasty Ding kiln is mainly white porcelain, and the decoration techniques are rich and colorful, including stacking, carving, scratching, ticking, printing, etc., and its ticking, carving, and printing techniques have had an important impact on other kilns in the same period.

The dragon head net bottle and children's pillow fired by the Ding kiln of the Northern Song Dynasty are world-famous, and the artistic achievements are unmatched. After the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, the craftsmen of the Ding kiln invented the overfiring method, which greatly saved the kiln space, improved the production efficiency, and laid a solid foundation for the mass production of Chinese ceramics and the world.

How to appreciate it. It should have a jade texture. The porcelain of the Song Dynasty pursued the effect of jade, and the jade texture was the top quality, especially as the porcelain made by the court, and it was necessary to burn the jade texture.

Therefore, to get started with a piece of porcelain (whether it is white or color glaze), the first thing to see is whether there is a jade texture.

The genuine product should be glazed and moist, full of agility, just like white jade. Imitations are not easy to grasp because of the raw materials of the tire glaze and the firing temperature, so it is difficult to burn the texture of jade. Generally, the aura is sluggish, the glaze is pale, and there is no jade texture at all.

Individual can burn out the texture of jade, but the common color is new, and there is a sense of fire.

Characteristics of Dingyao porcelain:

1. The fetal bone of Dingyao porcelain is thin and fine, the color is clean, and the degree of porcelain is very high.

2. The kiln of the Song Dynasty mainly fired white glazed porcelain, and at the same time fired black glaze, sauce glaze, green glaze and other so-called black glaze, purple glaze, green glaze, red glaze and other color glaze varieties.

3. The common types of porcelain in the Ding kiln of the Song Dynasty are mostly bowls, plates, bottles, plates, boxes and pillows, while the shapes of pots and furnaces are relatively few.

4. The decoration techniques of Dingyao porcelain are mainly white glaze printing, white glaze engraving and white glaze scratching. Northern song dynasty.

In the early Dingyao carving, the composition and pattern are relatively simple, with heavy lotus petal patterns in the majority, and the decoration has the beauty of bas-relief. In the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty, the carved decoration of the Ding kiln was exquisite and unique.

5. In the early Northern Song Dynasty, the firing method was adopted, so there was more glaze on the edge of the bowl mouth. After the middle period, the bowl adopts the overfiring method, in order to prevent the mouth from sticking to the glaze, so the glazed plate and bowl are scraped off a circle of glaze at the edge of the mouth, exposing the fetal bone, and after firing, there is a circle of "mangkou" that exposes the raw edge of the plate and bowl. For the sake of beauty, on the edge of some high-end plates and bowls, gold, silver, and copper buckles are often inlaid, which is the so-called "gold binding device".

This is a unique feature of the porcelain-making process of Dingyao Chuanghua.

The characteristics of Dingyao porcelain are that the edges of the vessels are thick lips, plump shoulders, flat bottoms, and the bottom of the money is full of round cakes, and some are jade bottoms.

The fetal bone of Dingyao porcelain is thin and fine, the color is clean, the degree of porcelain is very high, the glaze color is mostly white, and the enamel is dense and smooth. The white glaze of the kiln porcelain is more flashy yellow, so there is"Powdered"It is said that the glaze occasionally has the phenomenon of hanging glaze, so there is another one"Tear glaze"Another name for it.

Dingyao wins with colorful decorative patterns, neat and elegant, has always been regarded as a treasure in ceramic art, and its decorative techniques mainly include scratching, carving, printing three kinds. Scratching is one of the main decoration methods of Ding kiln porcelain in the Song Dynasty, but the most expressive decoration of Ding kiln decoration is the printed decoration.

In the kiln bowl, the outer wall of the disc utensils, you can often see the scratches that are as dense as bamboo wire, these scratches are left when the utensils begin to form after the processing of the blank, of course, the outer wall of the utensils at the mouth of other kilns can also see the marks of the billet sprint, but it is not as fine and dense as the kiln, which is a characteristic of judging the kiln utensils.

Dingyao is one of the famous porcelain kilns of the Song Dynasty, famous for producing white porcelain. Dingyao porcelain is mostly white glaze, but there are also a small number of black glaze, brown glaze, green glaze and other varieties. The fame of Dingyao white porcelain began in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the firing of Dingyao white porcelain began in the Tang Dynasty.

Ding kiln in the Tang Dynasty was already a famous porcelain field, specializing in white glaze, yellow glaze porcelain, to the Song Dynasty developed rapidly, larger than before the more famous, a large number of white porcelain fired, followed by black glaze, sauce glaze, green glaze, white ground brown flower and other varieties.

The white porcelain fetal soil is delicate, the fetal quality is thin and bright, the glaze color is pure white and moist, there are tear stains, the glaze is white vitreous glaze, slightly powdery, so it is called powder, also known as white. Other porcelain fetal quality is coarse and the glaze color is yellowish, commonly known as Tuding, purple is purple, black lacquer is black, and there are very few hand-me-downs.

Ding kiln is a treasure in the traditional Chinese porcelain craft, one of the six kiln systems of the Song Dynasty, it is a large porcelain kiln system that rose after the Xingyao white porcelain in the Tang Dynasty.

The main production area is in the area of Jianci Village and East Yanchuan Village and West Yanchuan Village in Quyang County, Baoding City, Hebei Province, because the area was under the jurisdiction of Dingzhou during the Tang and Song dynasties, so it was named Dingyao.

The kiln was originally a private kiln, and in the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty, it began to burn acres of porcelain for the imperial court.

Created in the Tang Dynasty, extremely prosperous in the Xunqiao Northern Song Dynasty and Jin, and finally Yuan, known for producing white porcelain, and burning black glaze, sauce glaze and green glaze porcelain, the literature called it respectively"Blackout"、"Purple Ding"with"Green set"。

Due to the changes in history, the kiln has changed with the region, the use of new porcelain clay and the progress of porcelain-making technology.

Bian Xianghe believes that the greatest contribution of Dingyao is to shine in the history of Chinese ceramic development, and leave a brilliant page in the history of Chinese ceramics and the history of ceramic development in the world.