Decorative art of Dehua white porcelain

The decorative art of Dehua ceramics is very exquisite, rich and varied decorative techniques, it inherits and carries forward the traditional decorative techniques such as engraving, scratching and printing on the basis of bold innovations, the use of a large number of piling up flowers, appliqués and engraved poems and phrases and other decorative techniques, make full use of the texture of the Dehua white porcelain is pure white, with few impurities and other characteristics, shaping a variety of works of art without applying any coloring material, become the art of Dehua porcelain. Characteristics. Its decorative content is mostly taken from folk life, mostly people's favorite subjects, such as plum blossom, magnolia, lotus, eight immortals, dragon and phoenix, etc., with a strong national style and local characteristics, is part of China's splendid national cultural heritage. Stacking is a traditional decorative technique prevalent in Dehua white porcelain and an artistic feature of Dehua porcelain. Pile flower is a brush dipped in mud, in the outer surface of the blank in accordance with a certain outline or vein pile painted into a pattern; and appliqué foot mold or pinch plastic, made of flowers, pavement and other parts, after finishing, with mud paste Ding has been repaired on the body of the object. Because the applique decoration is more clear, pile flower decoration is more fuzzy. Thus, when decorating often pile and paste, after the first pile of paste or paste to fill the pile, the decorative effect as a relief, three-dimensional sense of strong. The popular decorations are: plum blossom, magnolia, lotus, bamboo and pine, narcissus, peony, pavement, eight immortals, dragon and crane, deer and so on.

Dehua white porcelain decoration, most of the stacked paste technique, especially the stove, cups, wash, figures, jars, bottles, etc., most of the stacked applique decorations and artifacts with the shape of the clever cooperation, showing the Dehua kiln decorative skills. Such as stacking paste lion head, elephant head and other two ear incense burner, vase and plum blossom jar, plum blossom oval cup. Especially pile paste plum ellipsoidal cup, its mouth along the outside, the outer wall of the side of the paste with a number of blooming plum blossoms, branches and leaves, full of vitality; one side of the paste plum branches and calyx, lined with a few leaves; the bottom of the cup there is a plum blossom branches into a frame attached, both play a decorative role, when the cup of the foot frame; foot frame and the bottom of the cup, although there is a slight gap, but it is integrated, seemingly simple and dignified. Stick chi dragons pot, pot body straight cylindrical, small flat mouth, mother cover, cover stick arching chi dragon for the knob, the middle of the pot belly decorated with two knots, a four-clawed chi dragons against the wall of the pot, turn the head to look up, open mouth spit for the flow; another chi dragons head downward, cocked tail as a quail, gesture cattle movement, modeling marvelous. Double chi dragon ears three beasts feet furnace, furnace shoulder appliqué 12 deformed kui dragons, near the bottom of the perimeter wall molded petal-shaped pattern, the bottom of the furnace bearing three beasts hoofs, the whole body with white glaze, extremely glistening, fine workmanship, modeling both novel and simple and elegant. Chi-dragon candlestick, candlestick on the upper end of the disk, like a lotus leaf in full bloom, the disk under the column connected to the separation of the three animal-faced feet, around the columns stacked paste coiled dragons, the whole body of milky white glaze, glistening and delicate, peculiar modeling for the same time as the kiln in the mouth of the only see. This period of the pile paste decorative patterns and crystal moist glaze color, very harmonious and harmonious, a variety of flowers shaped vibrant, beautiful and colorful.

Translucent carving, also known as hollowing out, foot will be a good pattern of painted objects, and then carved with a sharp knife into the pattern of one of the decorative techniques. Dehua as early as in the Ming Dynasty Boshan incense burner, imitation copper incense burner, brush holder, vase and other products have been used. Incense burner is mainly used for the cover of the floral pattern part of the decorative flowers and plants meter to stay in the line, the middle carved into a hole. Boshan incense burner is also engraved luscious stone, furnace burning incense, wisps of smoke from the hole, dazzling rising, fragrant. Brushpot overall to cross floral composition, in addition to flowers, branches, leaves, all hollowed out, become the Ming dynasty ivory white porcelain in a characteristic product. Since the Qing Dynasty, Boshan incense burner, gossip incense burner, lion incense burner and other decorations are still used to carve through the method of production.