The uses of blue and white porcelain in ancient times..

Blue and white porcelain is rich in shapes and has everything you need. In addition to daily utensils such as bowls, plates, dishes and cups, there are also wine sets, tea sets, study utensils, furnishings, sanitary utensils, lighting utensils, and sacrificial utensils. , underworld utensils and religious statues, etc.

The main product modeling features are briefly described as follows:

1. Bowl is an indispensable and necessary eating utensil in people's daily life.

2. Box, a daily necessities, consists of two parts: the body and the cover. The cover is mostly slightly bulging, and the height of the body and the cover are similar.

3. Jar is a common shape in blue and white porcelain and is a storage vessel.

4. Bottle is a vessel for absorbing water and storing liquids. It is also a kind of porcelain for display.

5. Furnace, also known as fumigator and incense burner, is an ancient sanitary utensil for burning spices.

Extended information:

Mature blue and white porcelain appeared in Jingdezhen in the Yuan Dynasty. The body of Yuan blue and white porcelain adopts the binary formula of "porcelain stone + kaolin", which increases the Al2O3 content in the body, increases the firing temperature, and reduces the deformation rate during the firing process. Therefore, the carcass of most utensils is thick and the shape is thick and full.

Derivative varieties:

1. Blue and white multicolored is a porcelain decoration technique that uses underglaze blue and white as a color and combines multiple colors on the glaze. The blue part of the pattern is first painted with underglaze blue and white. After the glaze is fired, the other parts are painted with overglaze color materials, and finally fired in the furnace.

2. It flourished in the Jiajing and Wanli periods of the Ming Dynasty and developed from Chenghua Doucai. But it is obviously different from Chenghua Doucai, that is, it does not use blue and white as the main color, but only uses blue and white as a color that makes up the entire picture and is on the same footing as red, yellow, green and other colors.

3. Malachite green glaze blue and white is also called "malachite green ground blue and white". The production method is to use diamonds to draw patterns on the tire blank, apply transparent glaze on the pattern, enter the kiln at high temperature to bake astringent blue and white porcelain, then cover the entire body with malachite green glaze, and then enter the kiln for the second time to bake at medium temperature. The malachite green glaze blue and white jade pot spring vase unearthed in Indonesia from the Yuan Dynasty in Jingdezhen proves that the malachite green glaze blue and white was the first creation of the Jingdezhen kilns in the Yuan Dynasty.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Blue and White Porcelain