Ming hongwu Lotus green-splashed bowls youligong tangled branches

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straight mouth, deep arc wall, short ring foot, fetal bone thick, a foot dew, color red, has a dizzy.
youligong porcelain making history in China is both hard and brilliant, this copper glaze of the colorant is very difficult in the fire. In addition to the kiln temperature control, reducing atmosphere is very important, due to the limitations of technology and science and technology, the early youligong were most difficult to meet the ideal requirements, glaze color is grey, black, even from the perspective of the object of handed down and unearthed, the phenomenon still exists, but because of this, provide the basis for today’s date, also should be the ancestors of copper red glaze in the tang and song dynasties, especially the northern song dynasty’s rosy masterpieces, Chinese flowering crabapple red glaze firing success, such as for youligong gen burning laid a certain foundation. From the existing historical data, should be burned in the yuan dynasty, youligong porcelain mature in the Ming dynasty, brilliant in qing dynasty.
the modelling of the bowl and grain composition has a distinct style of The Times, for the hongwu youligong porcelain representative works. Especially its youligong decorative hair color, or unearthed in the hongwu youligong porcelain handed down from ancient times, be more pure.
in various colors, especially red hongwu imperial value. According to Liu Chen “at the beginning of the story” load: “DE MAO to fire, and five colours is fire, soldiers fight coat, skirt, strong cap all in red.” The ancient five color refers to the green, red, yellow, white, black (red). Emperor hongwu preference for red, so all the members in red. This preference, also can branch into other, including a monopoly on porcelain decoration in the red. Archaeological finds prove youligong of hongwu youligong properties by Ming royal elected to the royal porcelain, and limit civil use, make its exit circulation field, become the non commercial nature of imperial wares.
Beijing museum possession of Ming hongwu youligong tangled branches peony green-splashed bowls.