Stages of development of Guangzhou colored porcelain

The production and development of Guangzhou colored porcelain is divided into three stages, showing their own characteristics. Creation of the early stage: the emergence and development of Guangzhou colored porcelain is related to the geographical location of Guangzhou, foreign trade. Guangzhou is an important port of entry and exit of China's foreign trade, the twenty-third year of the Kangxi (1684), lifting the prohibition of the sea, foreign merchant ships increased, foreigners like Chinese porcelain, or order in Guangzhou, or sample processing, thus also promoting the production and development of Canton porcelain. Kangxi in the late Kangxi to the early Yongzheng, should be the initial stage of Guangcai, both masters, pigments, porcelain are from Jingdezhen, or according to Jingdezhen colored porcelain pattern, or to sample processing, no fixed style, so the characteristics of the Guangcai is not very significant, the country handed down very few objects.

Guangcai maturity stage: about the Qianlong, Jiaqing period, Guangcai porcelain has shown a unique style, and recognized by the community. During this period, the main use of the Guangzhou-made Xiyanghong, Crane spring color, eggplant color, pink and green, etc., with these kinds of color materials, it makes the Canton color porcelain like a new dress, appear colorful. In the picture, in addition to reference to the traditional painting porcelain, more imitation of Western painting, or sample processing, over time the formation of the style of Guangcai. Such as hemp color is one of its unique colors, is made of red and black two colors with deep ochre color, mostly used in export porcelain, Jingdezhen in Jiangxi Province rarely use this color.

The prosperous stage of Guangcai: Guangcai reached a prosperous stage in the late Qing Dynasty from the Daoguang to Guangxu periods. It absorbed both the traditional craftsmanship, but also absorbed the essence of European and American art, completely formed its own unique style. Characterized by gorgeous colors, gold and blue, warm and fresh, full of composition, complex but not chaotic, like a thousand strands of gold and white jade "gold-colored porcelain". At this time the pigment has increased from the initial several kinds to more than a dozen kinds, so that the color painting is more rich and colorful. In terms of decorative pattern design, has changed the early years of the "age of no fixed sample", and become a mass production, so that fragmented, scattered, separate patterns united to become a continuous pattern, or a complete composition. Such as "gold figures feathers", "scattered flowers and birds" and other compositions, this time more development, and fixed, and become a program that can be applied to all the product composition, such as a complete set of tableware, on the plate is appropriate, on the bowl is also appropriate, on the spoon, Small plates are suitable, so that the pattern of the whole set of tableware is both complete and uniform, the layout is neat, and can accommodate fruits and flowers, birds, birds, insects and fish, people, landscapes and other subjects in a product. Because bowls, plates, dishes and other products in the center with a gold circle, the use of crosses, open four square, plus flowers and fruits, butterflies, gold for the bottom, it can be varied, and at the same time incorporate a fixed program, easy to batch or complete set of production. The center of the gold ring can write flowers, birds, stones, can also be painted with foreign trademarks or foreign bank insignia, adaptability is relatively strong, which promotes the vigorous development of Guangcai porcelain, there can be a division of labor in the production of their respective responsibilities.

Towards the end of the Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China, due to the participation of some painters, so that the Guangcai porcelain paintings have innovations, and the emergence of a new painting organization, such as the "Guangdong Museum Chamber of Commerce", "Yangcheng, Fangcun, the chemical view of the ceramic painting room" and other epithets, there are objects in the world! . Guangdong Museum Chamber of Commerce is the end of the Qing dynasty at the time of some well-known painters, Lingnan School of Painting founder Gao Jianfu, Chen Shuren, etc. Founded, they first opened in the Baoxian Street, an old-style house in the art of painting and colored porcelain room, and then jointly established the "Guangdong Museum Chamber of Commerce," engaged in the research and production of colored porcelain. Therefore, at that time also painted a lot of Guangcai porcelain, but unfortunately most of them have been exported, left very few. Guangdong Provincial Museum collection of high Qifeng, Pan cold residue, Chen Shuren painted "cold moon perched on the bamboo plate", which painted seven sparrows, perched on the snow bamboo, under the painting of a full moon for the first rise.

Guangcai porcelain, from the Chinese and Western trade in export porcelain, gradually adapted to the needs of foreign markets and the development of. It is extremely close relationship with the export, it can be said that it is due to the needs of the development of export, is to adapt to the needs of foreign businessmen and good, and gradually developed a unique art of painted porcelain. It has both the style of China's traditional painted art, but also absorbed the essence of the art of Europe and the United States, is the crystallization of the cultural exchanges between the East and the West, is the fruit of hundreds of years of hard work of the artists of the Guangcai. It has won the praise of people at home and abroad, and has been sold in more than one hundred countries and regions in five continents, spreading China's unique ceramic culture. Nowadays, Guangcai porcelain has been reacquainted with the people, the domestic collection of more and more people, its value is rising year by year.