The type of General Can is named after its beaded top cover, like the general's helmet and hat.

Many of the general jars that we usually see have no lids, so their value is greatly reduced.

The general jars we know now originated from the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the Wanli period, and were basically established in the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, and were the most popular during the Kangxi period.

This is also the era of many generals.

All of them have to be divided into the Kangxi period.

This type of jar has a straight mouth, a shoulder-filled belly, a flat sand bottom, and a high round cover with a bead top.

The most common ones are blue and white flower and bird general jars, and there are also colorful utensils. In addition, there are yellow glaze, eggplant skin purple glaze, three-color, etc.

Now we know the general jars, as long as they are blue and white, colorful, doucai and enamel, these precious porcelains,

It has become a viewer, not a practical one.

If it is still a practical tool, it can only be made into urns. Isn’t it very subversive?

Who would have thought that the sought-after general jar might be an underworld object, something like an urn.

Actually, there is no need to be afraid, because people like General Cans, so for a long time, the purpose of General Cans gradually evolved into ornamental instruments.

During the Han Dynasty, some people said that this was a prize like today's trophy made by the emperor to win the victory of the general.

However, until the Ming Dynasty, the official kilns in the Ming Dynasty specially made general jars for the imperial court to be used as gifts to military generals, and the gifts given to civil officials were mainly four treasures of the study.

During the Qing Dynasty,

Ordinary officials in Kyoto used them to hold gold, silver, fine and soft things and beloved things.

People who believe in Buddhism in the official family use it to store Buddhist beads, etc.

There was a superstitious saying in the past that General Cans would bring official fortune, wealth, good fortune and peace, which was also an important reason for the general Cans to become popular.

In addition to the general jar, some other bright objects can also be beyond your expectations.

For example, stoves, multi-angle bottles, multi-tube bottles, refuge bottles, lotus masters, etc. were very common in ancient times.

Of course, the closer we are to the age, the less common it is, but they all have the same purpose.

This was considered an accident, which made Chen Wenzhe learn some uncommonly used knowledge.

It turned out that he had made too many tube bottles and polygon bottles. He really didn't expect that these could be used as urns.

Therefore, in the antique market, not all antiques can be used for collection.

Shaking his head, Chen Wenzhe stopped thinking about these underworld objects.

Actually, if he wants to sort out the production and development of various glaze colors from ancient times to the present,

I really can't avoid the underworld.

Since you can't avoid it, then don't.

So Tang Sancai can be made openly, and the first one to do is General Tang Sancai!

You can also make some pastels, colorful, or even Tianzi jars later.

The Tianzi jar is a treasure of Chinese ceramic art. The size of this jar is large, like a wine jar, with a large mouth, a short neck, a round shoulder, a restrained belly, and a large bottom. The bottom is written with cobalt material.

The body of the instrument is decorated with landscape patterns, and the painting is vivid, so as to clarify the most exquisite quality in Chenghua.

The Tianzi Can is the most famous variety in Chenghua Doucai. The Tianzi Can is written under the jar as the base.

In the Qing Dynasty, it was written as "Chengyao Tianzi Can" and the Tianzi Can is a royal porcelain.

Why is the bottom of the Tianzi jar written as Tianzi? There are many speculations.

Generally speaking, the document is arranged according to the past method, and the beginning of the "Thousand Character Text" is "The heaven and earth are mysterious and yellow, and the universe is vast and vast."

So we often say "the number one in Tianzi", which is how it comes from.

Tianzi cans have always been synonymous with sky-high prices, and if you can make a general can, it will be less difficult to make a Tianzi can.

As for Doucai, Chen Wenzhe has also made a very clear study now. If he can make a Huadoucai chicken jar, he can make a Huatian character jar.

Of course, now I will make Tang Sancai first.

Tang Sancai is pottery, which is easier to fire than porcelain, so the difficulty is all kinds of strange shapes, and the glaze color.

This is a low-temperature glaze pottery that was popular in the Tang Dynasty. The glazes include yellow, green, white, brown, blue, black and other colors.

The main colors of yellow, green and white are yellow, so people are used to calling it "Tang Sancai".

Chen Wenzhe has already studied the glaze color very clearly. If you don’t talk about green, just yellow and white, Chen Wenzhe will definitely do it well.

Therefore, the only difficulty in making Tang Sancai is the shaping of the instrument shape.

In fact, strictly speaking, Tang Sancai is considered a color sculpture, and Chen Wenzhe is also very good at this.

He has learned the technique of clay Zhang and can also sculpt. He has also learned the sculpture skills of imitating He Chaozong.

Combining all this makes Chen Wenzhe's process of producing Tang Sancai extremely smooth.

The only thing that restricts him now is that Tang Sancai has too many types of various instruments and is too complicated. It is really a bit difficult for him to imitate them all.

The many types of instruments, the glaze colors are mixed, and the characteristics of the times are rich. These are the three difficulties Chen Wenzhe summarized.

First of all, when talking about glaze color, Tang Sancai is a general term for pottery excavated from Tang tombs, and later scholars regarded it as a term in ceramic classification.

Although Tang Sancai is called Sancai, it does not refer specifically to those three colors.

Some of the various pottery figurines, pottery statues, and other pottery excavated in the Tang tombs only have single or two colors. There are many utensils, but they have more complex and colorful colors.

Generally speaking, except for the white ground of the carcass, lead yellow, green and green colors are the most common.

In terms of the three-color mixing techniques, it is also the most artistic charm.

Besides, Tang Sancai has fewer utensils, while ponies, small livestock and small poultry are more numerous.

All of them have rich artistic ideas, especially the pottery figurines of various characters and the supernatural figures, which are the most artistically valuable.

The three-color instruments are showing various objects used in actual life in the Tang Dynasty, but among these objects, the form of social life at that time is fully presented.

From this we learned that the shape and quantity of the Ming utensils and other objects buried alive are determined according to the official rank and size of the family status of the tomb during his lifetime.

For example, the Tang Liming utensils were made of three or more 90 things, five or more 60 things, and nine or more 40 things.

The horse-pushed puppets are one foot tall, and the other music teams, the ranks of children and servants, and their majestic clothes are determined according to their qualities during their lifetime.

At the end of the early Tang Dynasty, the trend of burial was first aroused.

Later, from the prosperous Tang Dynasty to the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the trend of burial became more and more intense.

Walking through the streets and tombs, playing music, curtains, and placing beds to create flowers, human figures, and food to passers-by, almost like sacrifices.

Tang Sancai, regardless of its shape and color, has extremely high artistic style, which attracted the attention of neon and people from all over Europe and the United States. It bought and collected at a high price. Since then, Tang Sancai has been included in part of world art.

To sum up, common unearthed Tang Sancai pottery include Sancai horses, camels, ladies, musical figurines, pillows, etc.

Especially the three-color camel, carrying silk on the back or carrying a band, and his head squeals.
Chapter completed!