Longquan porcelain and Identification

Longquan porcelain say, we should first talk about the Longquan Kiln. Speaking of China's old porcelain kilns, five people are often the most important Song Si Ming Yao, Yu-kwan, the Colombian government. Starting in the Northern Song Dynasty Longquan celadon, it seems to be low-grade class. In fact, the quality of Longquan Guci, since ancient times, has always been collectors of all ages. Longquan Kiln Longquan, Zhejiang province in southern areas, and the adjacent Fujian Province. Han, have Ciyao, but really let the world is recognized when the Northern Song Dynasty porcelain. Longquan geographical and porcelain is named after it is followed.

Longquan Kiln Song to the Qing Shaozao more than 800 years of history, different historical periods have a distinctive style of the times, the Southern Song Dynasty Longquan Kiln more of its Yingrunruyu the powder blue and green plums that no time, was the favorite at home and abroad . Since then according to the needs of the market and people's preferences, businesses have to Longquan Kiln firing imitation products.

In China, Jingdezhen Longquan Kiln firing imitation products continuation of the longest, from the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, with the burning of solid ceramic techniques, firing imitation artifacts variety. Its greatest feature is not on the Longquan Kiln mechanical imitation products, but pay attention to glaze on the basis of the variety of objects and modeling innovation. Early Republic of China at the end of the Ching dynasty, Japan, Germany, the United States has been collected to Longquan celadon, then pour in the domestic large number of antique dealers, which triggered the Longquan Mining and ancient kiln tomb of the wind. At the same time, local development Antique Longquan celadon of wind and Shing, a group of civil Zhici artists have joined this trip. - Guangxu, Xuantong Period years, Sun Hang Fanzu Dai, the ancestral Qiu brothers system antique celadon Mingzaoyishi to in the early Liao Xianzhong county (Qingxiu only) Antique few products can be Luanzhen.

1956, Longquan Cichang resume production. Zhejiang museum a number of imitation Longquan Kiln fired after the liberation of the products, mainly on the basis of the Southern Song Dynasty artifacts Longquan Kiln shapes, such as: Beas washing, Ge furnace, Peony profiling large bottles artifacts, but imitation deliberately. 20 beginning in the 1980s, some large Longquan Cichang to antique crafts in the form of mass production Longquan celadon kiln.

In recent years, with the rise of cultural relics collection, for access to high profits, all kinds of artifacts fraud have emerged. Longquan celadon kilns of Zuowei, mainly from the following areas identification:

1. The shape of pottery

Imitation is often burned each election Longquan Kiln times the typical products, such as the Northern Song Dynasty pots of Directors, five bottles of the Southern Song Dynasty Lianban bowl, Fung ears bottles, Ge furnace, the Peony Wen Yuan Dynasty large bottles, Hand carved market, all kinds of Incense burners and other utensils. Imitation goods is little real control imitation goods in kind to burn, so modeling on the rigid lines, the lack of charm, the turning point of the neck and shoulder is very stiff, the end of the foot too tidy, with the proportion of disorders, artifacts form the specifications and dimensions of the lack of standardized .

2. Fetal glaze

Longquan Kiln glaze and fetal each era has its specific components and the corresponding Shaozao process. Longquan Kiln different times of the fetal-color, texture and detail of the slipshod, color and texture of the glaze, are different. The powder blue, plum Qingyou imitation of a fire, generally do not have to glaze chemical formula, and follow the traditional formula, that is, porcelain clay in the choice to join the plant plant ash, although the glaze is very like the texture, but reserved the lack of solid sense, often floating - Yinxian. Ming Dynasty Longquan Kiln Green beans and dark green glaze porcelain, wall thickness fetal weight, with the end of rough, modern imitation is more easily available, such products to be careful to distinguish. Zuowei artifacts an important process, is the glaze on the surface of objects to light processing, mainly in a strong acid solution corrosion, landfill and industrial technical polished. In recent years, experts and scholars on the old treatment for the injury-table, under the microscope in the high-power performance of the different imaging, summarized and concluded that raising the ancient ceramic wrongs level of science.

3. Ornamentation

Longquan Kiln products described patterns of counterfeit goods, not really a euphemism for smooth lines. Decals of the decoration, unlike the vivid and authentic. Lu Yuan Dynasty Longquan Kiln child is the most decorated of the characteristics, unique to the Yuan Dynasty Longquan Kiln Green glaze and Lu Zhe fetal red contrast, counterfeit imitation of the burning of such products, provide identification points.

4. Loaded burn method

With burning technology in the development of the Longquan Kiln each period are not the same. In pad burning tools, can be summed up just two washers and pad cake, but at different times on the mat Quanzu the site is different, leaving behind all traces of Shaozao different times. Especially during the Southern Song Dynasty Longquan Kiln products "Iron Foot," "Cinnabar foot" is often irregular. Washers traces of the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty artifacts reveal fetal Quanzu Department, revealed "Flint red." Longquan Kiln early products, is full of rare, how many remain some residual defects, mainly in Quanzu part. Therefore Zuowei often used "more in the bottom edge or slightly Cardamine Xu" or Zhannian furnace slag approach to Mengren.