The Origin of the Five Great Official Kilns

Ru Kiln. Ru porcelain belongs to the first of the five kilns, Ru kiln to celadon based, glaze cyan "crab claw pattern" incense gray tire "sesame nail" and so on is an important basis for identifying the Ru kiln. Among them, the crab claw pattern refers to the glaze open texture hairy za za. Sesame earning nails" is due to the firing of the foot with a very small support pegs, and then the Ru kiln porcelain support in the air to burn. This firing porcelain after firing, the bottom glaze will have a few points. Ru kiln porcelain body is generally thinner, thicker glaze, jade-like texture, glaze has a very fine open flakes, while in the shape of the more solemn and generous. Official Kiln. Song dynasty official kiln porcelain is mainly plain, neither gorgeous carving, and no colorful painting, the most use of concave-convex straight rib and string pattern for decoration. Its tire color iron black, glaze pinkish green, purple mouth and iron feet "to add the beauty of ancient simplicity and elegance, purple mouth and iron feet" refers to the celadon tire iron content of up to 3.5% -5%, resulting in the products of the mouth edge of the glaze at the thin place of the dew grey or greyish-purple, and the bottom end of the scraping glaze exposed tire at the black-brown or dark grey. In addition to the common shape of the kilns, such as plates, dishes, washes, etc., there are also a lot of bottles and furnaces modeled after the ancient bronzes of the Shang Dynasty, Zhou Dynasty, Qin Dynasty, and Han Dynasty.

Ge Kiln. But brother kiln will be open piece "of the beauty of the play to the extreme, resulting in a gold wire" the typical characteristics of the brother kiln: due to the different sizes of the open piece, the depth of the different levels, the parts of the fetus exposed to the degree of oxidation or contamination are also different, resulting in the open piece of the pattern of color. Brother kiln porcelain glaze large open flake pattern was iron black, called iron line ", small open flake pattern was golden yellow, called gold wire". Gold wire" makes the calm glaze to produce rhythmic beauty. Song dynasty kiln porcelain to plates, bowls, bottles, wash, etc. mainly.