Antique craftsmanship can be just imitation craftsmanship.

Imitating antiques, especially imitating ancient official kilns, is not simply learning ancient craftsmanship, but striving to copy ancient craftsmanship in all aspects.

This is particularly difficult to imitate the official kiln.

Because throughout the ages, craftsmen in each dynasty have their own characteristics, and the emperor's preferences are also different.

Just talking about the habits of craftsmen is a very difficult thing to determine.

For example, the official kiln styles of the Hongzhi Dynasty have several basic consensus.

For example, short horizontal and large horizontal, imbalanced and "broad", low water and long bottom "treat", long waist and "control".

From this we can see that the character "big" in Hongzhi Huang Glaze has a shorter stroke on the first stroke, so it has the characteristics of "short, horizontal and large";

The word "hong" is indeed "bow" is greater than "王", which can be said to be "imbalance Hong";

The way of writing "treatment" is completely consistent with the Hongzhi style with low water and long bottom.

That is, the "water" part of the three dots of water is significantly lower than the "tai" part on the right.

The "Tai" part on the right, the horizontal line at the end of the character "mouth" below, grows outside the "mouth";

Finally, the word "子" must be fully consistent with the characteristics of "long waist".

That is, the middle horizontal line of the character "子" is obviously longer.

According to Mr. Geng Baochang, the porcelain identification during the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty "the lines of the ornament are slender and stretched, and are softer and more elegant than those in Chenghua."

As long as you have seen porcelain from the Hongzhi period, you can indeed experience this slenderness and elegance.

Regarding the painting of dragon patterns during the Hongzhi period, there is generally a saying of "myopia dragon", which is a metaphor for the painting of dragon eyes, as if wearing a pair of eyes.

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The patterned eucalyptus conforms to the characteristics of Hongzhi's era, so what about its glaze color?

Mr. Geng Baochang said in the same book: "Hongzhi yellow glaze is the best, the yellow is delicate, like chicken oil; the glaze surface is bright, like a pool of clear water. The glaze color and glaze surface at this time seem deeper and thicker than the white light yellow glaze of Chenghua, but it is lighter and moderately lighter than the yellow glaze that came later."

By repeatedly pondering the yellow glaze surface of Hongzhi porcelain, you can understand the "delicate", "deep" and "shallow and moderate" charms.

It is because of these characteristics of Hongzhi that its value is determined.

Even now, the market value of yellow-glazed porcelain is not low.

Of course, yellow glaze porcelain also determines the value according to grades.

How to divide levels? In fact, it is divided according to ancient levels.

There are regulations on the use of yellow glaze in the royal families of the Ming and Qing dynasties and not everyone can use it.

According to historical research, in the Ming Dynasty imperial palace, porcelain with yellow glaze inside and outside the utensils was the empress dowager and the empress's utensils;

The imperial concubine used the inner wall of the utensil with yellow glaze and the outer wall of the utensil with ordinary transparent glaze.

The imperial concubine uses yellow glaze green dragon instruments, or yellow-land green dragon instruments;

Concubines use blue earth and yellow dragon utensils; nobles cannot use yellow glaze utensils.

Therefore, in the process of making or investing in yellow glaze porcelain, it is very important to understand the types of yellow glaze porcelain.

Different yellow glaze porcelains represent different levels. Of course, if you are collecting, the rarity of the collection is also very important.

For example, among some yellow-glazed porcelains, the price of green-glazed porcelain is slightly lower, while other yellow-glazed porcelains are not low.

Even if other yellow-glazed porcelains have low levels, they are rare in the art market due to their limited existence, and the cumbersome craftsmanship makes them more expensive.

In the yellow-glaze porcelain market, the most common types of yellow-glaze porcelain in the Ming Dynasty are: monochrome glaze yellow glaze plates, yellow-glaze blue-and-white utensils, and yellow-glaze green-colored porcelain.

Monochrome yellow glaze porcelain, first recommended in the Hongzhi Dynasty;

The yellow-glazed blue-and-white utensils are the most representative of the yellow-glazed blue-and-white flower-fruit pattern plates in the mid-Ming Dynasty.

In the 1996 Hanhai Autumn Auction, the Ming Hongzhi yellow glaze blue and white flower plate sold for 2.86 million yuan was estimated by experts, and the current market value was at least more than 10 million yuan;

The artistic value of yellow-glazed porcelain during the Jiajing period was also high and worth investing.

The most famous during this period were the Jiajing yellow-glazed green-colored dragon-patterned utensils and the yellow-glazed colorful cloud-patterned utensils. These objects were full of "imperial spirit" and were appreciated by collectors.

After five thousand years of continuous development, the Chinese nation was known as the successor of the dragon in the history of our country's civilization, and the dragon's painting became a symbol of supreme power.

Therefore, objects with dragon eucalyptus are exclusive to the royal family and cannot be used by the people.

In addition, the supreme ruler also monopolized the color of yellow, perhaps because of the homophonic sound of "yellow", "huang" and "wang", or perhaps because the central Wu and Ji earth in the Taoist "Five Elements" is yellow.

The reason for the royal family's residence is that the living is magnificent and the wear is golden or yellow. Yellow is like the dragon pattern and has been praised by emperors of all dynasties.

Yellow glaze ware, especially during the Ming and Qing dynasties, was exclusive to the royal family and became the royal or sacrificial products, and should not be offended by the people.

From the early Ming Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty, every emperor issued an order for the Imperial Kiln Factory to make exquisite yellow-glazed porcelain for himself.

But the most outstanding one should be the "Ming Dynasty Hongzhi Period System", which cannot be compared with either "Ming Chenghua" or "Qing Yongzheng"!

Since Hongzhi's yellow-glazed porcelain is the best, it must be made the most.

The rare variety, and the more unique one, is definitely the Hongzhi Yellow Glaze Green Dragon Gaozu Bowl.

Among the porcelains passed down, there are some plates or bowls with white glaze exposed body carved with dragon patterns from Hongzhi Official Kiln.

The production method is to carve dragon patterns on the body first, and leave the parts of the dragon patterns when applying transparent glaze.

After high temperature firing, due to the oxidation of the exposed body part, the white glaze flint red dragon pattern appears.

These utensils are likely to be semi-finished products of white glaze and green colored utensils.

There are also fine products with thin or semi-rebirth in the white glaze during the Hongzhi period.

Like the plate, the bottom of the bowl is thinner than that of Yongle and Xuande vessels, but it is still at a semi-transparent but not fully transparent.

The Hongzhi Yellow Glaze Green Dragon High-foot Bowl is made on a bowl with white glaze exposed body carved dragon patterns.

In addition, the Palace Museum in Wanwan District has a dish with peacock green surface and yellow glaze on the inner wall, and it has an official kiln style "made in the Hongzhi year of the Ming Dynasty".

It can be confirmed that the Hongzhi Dynasty also burned peacock green glaze.

But overall, Hongzhi has very few colored glaze tools.

Less means that the price is expensive, and things are rare and expensive!

Of course, there are also some types that have existed before Hongzhi.

It is also very likely that the Hongzhi Dynasty had been fired in small quantities, but because of the lack of official kiln residence permits, some color glazes can only be inferred based on the characteristics of their objects and their production.

In fact, in the Hongzhi Dynasty, the manufacturing of colored porcelain was not strong. At this stage, there are mainly two types of green and red.

Obviously, compared with yellow color, green color and red color have lower value.

White and green color is the main type of Hongzhi color porcelain. The method is to use the eucalyptus design patterns on the body and to use the fully transparent glaze, the position of the eucalyptus design is vacant.

After the first fire at high temperature, it will be made into a type of white glaze exposed body.

Then, at the exposed position, green color is applied and then burned with ultra-low temperature, and white glaze is engraved with green color.

Such porcelains are mostly dragon patterns, while utensils are mostly plates and bowls.
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