Celestial blue glaze craft characteristics

Tianqing glaze began to appear in the famous kilns in the Song Dynasty, and then there are imitations of each generation, since the founding of New China, this beautiful traditional color glaze shine, in addition to decorative furnishings porcelain, but also widely used it to decorate the tea utensils, tableware, wine utensils, sugar bowl and other daily-use ceramics, by the majority of the workers, peasants and soldiers unanimously praised. Celestial glaze is colored with cobalt, to glaze fruit, feldspar for glaze, and calcium, magnesium raw materials as a solvent, the glaze should be ball-milled to fine. Billet glaze, generally more spray glaze or dip glaze and spray glaze combined with each of the glaze method, fired at 1280 ~ 1300 ℃ kiln temperature, the atmosphere to the reduction flame is dominant.

Azure glaze Jingdezhen azure glaze directly imitated from the Ru kiln. Ming dynasty imperial factory by the palace of the real Ru ware for samples, made called the rain over the green, which is the official kiln, at the same time, private kilns are also imitated. Jingdezhen pottery records" said: "town pottery officials in the large ware and other households, more imitation put Ru kiln glaze color, its color is good, and to rain over the green call." "Jingdezhen pottery records" has Jingdezhen azure characteristics of the description: "Ru kiln porcelain color, the town plant imitated by the color green and with blue light, not blue blue of the shadow of the green also. The restaurant examines" said Ru kiln porcelain color such as brother and deep, it is mistakenly recognized as green Bi solution carry on. I do not know Ru porcelain so-called light green color, actually today's good moon blue." Celestial blue glaze, also known as the rain through the blue, is a kind of light and timeless high-temperature blue glaze, "green as the sky, bright as a mirror" glaze color characteristics. Tianqing system with cobalt as coloring agent, its color is a very light blue-gray, in fact, should be included in the blue glaze system. Tianqing glaze production is simple, stable firing, only in the basic white glaze with a small amount of cobalt raw materials.