What are the types of porcelain?

Porcelain is generally divided into two categories, namely monochrome glazed porcelain and painted porcelain. Monochrome glaze porcelain is divided into plain porcelain and color glaze porcelain, both commonly known as "a glaze". China before the Ming Dynasty is the era of plain porcelain, after the Ming Dynasty, there is a colorful porcelain flourished.

The plain porcelain refers to both the glaze and under the glaze are not colorful porcelain, not painted patterns. Vegetarian porcelain is fired in a ventilated state, due to the different levels of iron oxide contained in the glaze and lead to different glaze colors. It includes four types: celadon, black porcelain, white porcelain, and blue and white porcelain.

* Celadon: also called green porcelain. Containing iron oxide in the glaze, it is the earliest porcelain to appear, and the most famous when it developed into the Song Dynasty was the Longquan kiln.

*Black porcelain: also called Tianmu porcelain. Is based on celadon increased iron content fired. The famous ones are Jian kiln and Deqing kiln.

*White porcelain: transparent glaze due to low iron content. The most famous ones are Ding kiln and Xing kiln. The appearance of white porcelain made it possible to paint on porcelain, thus laying the foundation for the development of colored porcelain.

*Blue and white porcelain: also known as shadow green, hidden green, reflecting green, cover green, etc.. Glaze color between green and white, green in white, white flash green, ice-like jade.

Color glaze porcelain is a glazed porcelain with color, is fired in a closed state, due to iron oxide, copper oxide and other content of different and different firing temperatures, and present different colors of glaze. Color glaze porcelain including red glaze, sauce glaze, blue glaze, yellow glaze, green glaze, purple glaze and so on.

Painted porcelain is not to win the glaze color, but to the type, painting and color to win the porcelain. The development of painted porcelain by the beginning of blue and white, that is, in the glaze or under the glaze began to appear decoration, with the development, respectively, appeared in blue and white, two colors, three colors, five colors, color, color, pastel, bronze color, gold color and so on. Among them, the blue and white is generally underglaze, three colors and five colors are generally on the glaze, and bucket color is underglaze blue and five colors on the glaze.