How to recognize a fully handmade zisha pot

If it's a square vessel, then it's all handmade molding method is the clay piece of joint molding, we will take the most common roundware to illustrate today, after all, roundware is the mainstay of the zisha pot market sales.

One, the splicing of clay joints

1, all handmade round ware will have a pot inside the joint marks, without exception

Whole handmade to do a roundware zisha pots, first of all, you need to beat the clay bar into a rectangular or fan-shaped uniform thickness of the clay, and then the clay piece of the circle, and then clay piece of the bond, in the adhesive, will leave a little bit of a trace, the outside of the pot trace can be handled by the The marks on the outside of the pot can be dealt with by tools to be relatively less obvious, but the marks on the inside are difficult to deal with and unnecessary to deal with. Therefore, inside the position where the clay pieces are glued together, there must be a joint (joint), which is a joint that is found in any handmade round vessel, without exception.

2. Where exactly is the joint?

We usually put the handle on the joint. Therefore, the mark is usually located on the inside of the handle. Why do we have to put the handle at the sticking position? This is because even if the external marks can be seen a little bit, the handle will not affect the aesthetics after it is mounted.

3, the specific method of operation

Stick your finger into the inner wall of the position of the pot handle, touch back and forth, if it is a full handmade, you will feel a slightly raised line at the location of the joint marks, or in the handle corresponding to the inner side of the light, with the naked eye can generally be seen to joint marks.

This is the most basic way to recognize the full handmade zisha pots, if there is no this joint can basically judge this pot is not full handmade, but we can not rule out a very small part of the dishonest people because they know that buy pots will be used to identify this method, they will be in some half handmade pots in the position of the so-called fake joints (in the viscous contact with the zisha clay paste a line to), this fake joints whether it is the touch or look will give the impression of a fake joint. Touch or look will give people a particularly abrupt feeling, the transition between the two sides is not very natural, but if handled with extreme care, the general public will be more difficult to judge.

Not all handmade pots have more than one splicing line, the "two lines" will not be all handmade pots.

Semi-handmade Zisha pots, you need to put a good round piece of clay in the mold, from the inside out of the force of the "enamel", because the mold is divided in half, once the force will leave a "vertical line", usually in the mouth and handle of the pot below. Of course, this is not handled well to leave a mark, in order to be able to cover the traces will be repaired these very obvious breaks.

Not all pots will leave traces of joints, such as 40 mesh or 50 mesh purple clay, the particles themselves will be relatively coarse, the master does not like to have such obvious joints, which will affect the perfection of the pots, then the tool will be used to light a little bit, feel the traces of joints.

Two, the inner wall seal

The role of the inner wall seal is to prove the identity of the pot, the second is used to distinguish handmade pots. All handmade inner wall seal are in the step of playing the clay bar on the cover, and then the clay piece in a circle patting clay piece into the pot shape, with the body barrel molding seal will also produce different twisted effect. So the finished seal looks more natural, and surrounded by the depth and shape of the pot towards the basic consistent.

Imitation of handmade pots will be after the molding of the soft leather seal, some pots have curvature, the seal will appear on the seal on the phenomenon of varying shades, more hard, not natural.

For example, the more common stone ladybird, is below the belly is large, the mouth and then slowly upward, the clay piece in the process of patting the seal will also be deformed, molding is generally trapezoidal. The seal in the Pan pot will be irregularly shaped, narrower at the top and bottom and wider in the center.

Three, the inner wall of the natural folds

The inner wall of the handmade Zisha pots, there will be a kind of natural folds, the jargon is called mud door.

Full handmade Zisha pots are hand-beaten with bamboo clappers to make the body barrel molding, so the distribution of clay particles on the outer wall of the pot is very tight, while the inner wall is not subjected to the force of the squeeze, the distribution of clay particles is relatively loose, the overall presentation of the outside of the tight inside of the characteristics of the loose.

The non-handmade pots are hand-lined with the help of a mold, and the force applied to each part of the pot is uniform, and the tightness of the distribution of the clay particles on the inner and outer walls is not very different, so there is no crease pattern of the handmade pattering.

With the help of a mold, the inner wall can sometimes be uneven, and this time pushing the wall is particularly important. The wall is pushed up to make the inner wall more smooth and even, and the wall is usually pushed up higher. Handmade pots in the bottom of the interface will sometimes do push wall treatment, but generally will not be pushed too high, so as not to destroy the natural folds of the handmade wall.

"Push the wall and scrape the bottom" said the push wall treatment, we have to talk about scraping the bottom. Now scraping the bottom can not identify handmade pots, not to mention the semi-handmade pots have scraping the bottom, is the lowest end of the market motorcycle pots, hand-pulled pots have this feature.

Four, on the quasi piece of the place traces

Full handmade pots need to be on the quasi piece (specifically for the mouth of the pot also need to be on a layer of mud piece), because the quasi piece is glued with the fat mud, the shrinkage process will be more or less left traces.

The mouth of the pot because it also needs a layer of mud, this layer of mud is ZiNi (fat mud) stick on, because it is not good to do the internal modification will generally leave traces, with the hand can be felt out.

Fifth, under the false bottom of the traces

and on the quasi piece of a principle, handmade pots also need to be on the false bottom, the contraction process will leave traces.

Sixth, the lid joint

The lid of the pot is completed through two parts, the cap and the poke mouth. The poking mouth is made on the same principle as the pot body barrel, both have joints. Turning the cap over, there will be a circle of lines also known as a joint pattern on the inside. The joint will have a simple shrinkage after the clay is fired, and it is easy to see if the clay shrinks more than it should.

Looking closely at the lid of a zisha pot, part of it has a circle of spinning lines, because when making the lid of a zisha pot, the lid is rotated on a tool, and when the lid is rotated, it gently rubs against the abrasive tool, which leaves a very fine spinning line on the surface of the lid, and these spinning lines do not disappear during the firing process, which makes the lid look very beautiful.

In fact, said the identification of full handmade just so you have one more choice, not to say that in addition to full handmade other pots are not valuable, half handmade pots are becoming more and more exquisite, the quality is getting better and better, many full handmade pots are not as good as half handmade. Some of the more unique types of pots inevitably rely on molds to complete, such as ribbed pots. The value of a pot does not only depend on the workmanship, but also depends on the clay, pot type, decoration, shape, etc. to confirm its value, can not be generalized, rational choice for their own Zisha pot.

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