I would like to ask you about the plate type of porcelain, inside the painting of a fish, and the whole plate is still cracked, and the strangest thing is that the inscription is in English words...

You recounted may be export porcelain, ice crackle, plate type porcelain, inside the painting of a fish, called like a fish in the water. "Ice crackle", also known as open flake original, is a variety of ancient Longquan celadon, because of its pattern like ice rupture, lobes cascade, three-dimensional and called. In the brother kiln of various glaze crack pattern piece, "ice crack" ranked first, known as "brother kiln character, grain take ice crack for the top" reputation. Because of its unique crack in the firing process, showing the infinite natural beauty. Unfortunately, the firing of "ice crack" process in the Song Dynasty was lost.

A natural cracking phenomenon of porcelain glaze. Cracking for two reasons: one is the molding of billet clay along a certain direction, affecting the molecular arrangement. Secondly, the blank, glaze expansion coefficient is different, the glaze layer shrinkage rate when cooling after baking. Originally a shortcoming in porcelain firing, but people intentionally use the law of cracking to create open glaze, as a special decoration of porcelain. To the song dynasty brother kiln products are most famous. Open glaze in the production can be divided into two categories: a filling type, in the firing of the glaze cracks filled with soot, etc., the pattern is black; can also be filled with copper sulfate and other coloring agents in the cracks, brown-green pattern. Another type of covering type, after baking on the bottom glaze covered with a layer of color glaze, baking again, showing cracks, revealing the bottom glaze color. Open according to the cracks sparse and different graphics * lines, caviar lines, hundreds of trash broken, crab claw pattern, cow hair pattern and eel blood lines, etc..

Nine cold winters, three feet of ice, stick mallet or stone on it, the ice will be crunching a sound, there are many cracked white lines, this pattern is called ice cracks.

This intertwined pattern was first used in traditional art, and became globally famous when the Chinese porcelain. One of the best examples of this is the open flake on the kiln. The so-called "open slice", that is, ice cracks, the tire glaze expansion coefficient is not the same, resulting in cracks in the glaze, in fact, is a defect, but the porcelain craftsmen skillfully used as a decorative pattern, and the effect is exquisite, there is a natural, the feeling of skillful workmanship. The ancients said: "the official kiln character, the rate of the same with the kiln, color to pinkish green for the top, light white followed. Oil gray, color also under. Texture to take the ice crack for the top, plum blossom piece of ink, followed by fine grain, grain also under." Visible its unique beauty has long won the love of the ancients, and will be regarded as rare. It is not an exaggeration to say that the ice crack is very typical of the beauty of the mutilated into the miraculous.

Ming Dynasty Jingdezhen porcelain varieties according to its production process can be divided into: underglaze color, glaze color, color, color and monochrome glaze, miscellaneous color glaze.　

First, the underglaze color, mainly refers to the blue and white, glazed red, glazed red, blue and white flowers. Ming dynasty Jingdezhen blue and white porcelain is underglaze color development to the highest stage. Blue and white porcelain reached its peak during the Yongle and Xuande periods, which is known as the golden age of the blue and white period. Since then, blue and white porcelain has become the mainstream of China's porcelain development, forming a colorful situation of blue and white porcelain until today. Glazed red was created in the Yuan Dynasty, in the Hongwu period there was a great development, once developed to the peak stage.　

Second, the glaze color, can be divided into 1, the glaze single color: white ground red color, white ground green color, white ground yellow color, gold color, yellow ground red color, yellow ground blue, blue and red color, etc. 2, the glaze colorful: mainly refers to the bucket of color and five colors. Doucai, also known as teasing color, its meaning is that the underglaze color and overglaze color to spell teasing and into the colorful picture. Doucai technology invented in the Xuande period, Chenghua Doucai is very famous. Five-color, commonly known as "ancient color", also known as "hard color", five-color from the Song, Yuan based on the development of the Xuande outstanding achievements. To Jiajing, Wanli five-color porcelain is renowned at home and abroad.　

Third, monochrome glaze and miscellaneous glazes, a variety of varieties, brilliant, brilliant in the history of Chinese ceramics, and blue and white colored porcelain. Monochrome glaze mainly: copper red glaze, copper as a coloring agent of a high temperature oil. Yongle, Xuande when fired extremely successful, so the world known as "gem red", "Jihong" and so on. After that, it is extremely rare, and the quality is not as good as before. Blue glaze, cobalt as a coloring agent, into the kiln at a high temperature firing. Yongle blue glaze, blue pure, moist glaze. Xuande blue glaze, like sapphire, so there is "gem blue", "clear blue" and so on. After that, although the dynasties have fired, but the quality of the obvious decline. Sweet white glaze, is the Yongle Jingdezhen imperial kiln factory fired a kind of semi-flaked white glazed porcelain, because it has a sweet white sugar color, so named. Yongle, Xuande reached a climax. Above red, blue, white monochrome glaze for the Ming dynasty monochrome glaze the most valuable varieties.　

In addition, there are imitation brother glaze, imitation Longquan glaze, iron red glaze, also known as "alum red glaze", yellow glaze, sprinkled blue glaze, also known as "snowflake blue glaze" and so on. Miscellaneous color glaze, refers to a variety of color glaze applied to a ware of porcelain. Flourished in the Ming Jiajing period, very few heirlooms.

The main features of Ming porcelain:

Modeling - generally show full, thick, soft lines, rounded, giving people a sense of simplicity, solemnity.　

Tire - generally thicker than the Qing Dynasty, Hongzhi before focusing on repairing the tire, joint marks are not obvious; Zhengde and the end of the Ming dynasty after the joint marks are particularly obvious, the tire is more heavy and rough, especially the folk kiln objects. More "flint red" phenomenon, commonly known as "yellow spill".　

Glaze - the biggest feature of the glaze is fat, moist. In blue and white porcelain, most of them are green-white, commonly known as "bright green glaze", throughout the Ming dynasty at the beginning and end.　

Decoration - mainly dragons, phoenixes, unicorns, landscapes, figures, birds and flowers, animals and so on. The picture is bold and elegant, and the brushwork is smooth and pure, and the composition is simple and ancient. Feet - large objects are mostly sand bottoms, often with collapsed bottoms, sticky sand, jumping knife marks. The shape of the foot has a straight foot, flat cut foot, wall type foot, high foot and many other shapes.

Recognition - before the Ming Dynasty, Jingdezhen porcelain is not signed. After the Yongle, began to write on the official kilns of the dynasty's annual paragraph, dry paragraph, figure mark paragraph. Mostly written in blue and white, with dark engraving, letterpress and so on.