Ming hongwu In state longquan green glaze ling the broader market

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longquan celadon named after the deep LongQuan County in zhejiang province, where the old belongs to the state, the so called “state kiln”. Song dynasty was established green jade-like stone moist glaze tradition, to the yuan and Ming dynasties still bear the ceaseless. According to “daming reign” load: “hongwu twenty-six years (1393), every fire for using vessel, such as need to decide the sample preparation, calculation of artificial material. If the number is much, picking up people artisan to Beijing, brought kiln, less or more, remove line rao, such as house fire.” In the early Ming dynasty, longquan celadon and rao state official kilns are equally important position, jingdezhen kiln are promulgated by the central government’s sample system, fire for porcelain, and longquan celadon often appear similar products to jingdezhen imperial kilns.

the relevant records in daming reign, “hongwu twenty-six years (1393) : every fire for using vessel, such as need to decide the sample preparation, calculation of artificial material. If the number is much, picking up one artisan to Beijing, brought kiln, less or more, remove line rao, such as house fire.” “Daming reign” also mentioned that “the suburbs each ling porcelain, the circular mound altar cyan, high yellow, red, ritan 20:30 liu jianhua calls white, line Jiang Xirao state, such as the prime solution. The display meter each altar: too a soup bowl, and soup bowls, blood plate of three MAO, the statue of a, offer a, a mountain, the generation of GUI jie Bian bean porcelain 28, drink porcelain jue a blessing, a small handleless wine cup forty, with each one.” Royal sacrifices required method to host at the time, to strengthen their identity as “son of heaven”, because of cyan and heaven corresponding science, worship is made of celadon. This article will give state and longquan celadon and jingdezhen kiln, both in the Ming dynasty official kilns with nature, for the prime GongQi imperial court. The modelling of porcelain or grain must be uniformly by court “initial sample preparation” so two plant can appear in the same shape or pattern. Zhu yuanzhang set by the system in the hongwu twenty-six years, longquan celadon and jingdezhen kiln and its status in Ming may even higher than that of jingdezhen, further improve the quality, therefore, Ming is considered to be in Ming dynasty, longquan celadon delicate texture, shape and rich decorative era.

this specific items neat and elegant, green moist glaze color, exquisite workmanship, should be in Ming dynasty, the royal palace of longquan celadon drive makes excellent products. This type of plate shape beginning in yuan dynasty (see the blue color – blue and white porcelain of yuan dynasty god, “on page 134) of the green land Bai Hualian wen ling mouth tray, water birds, now in Iran’s national museum, and central Asian ceramic and metal is very similar to the market, is imitated in beslan copper plate system. In addition, documented in the Turkish top card collection than palace, also can find a similar to the broader market, longquan longquan celadon is royal nobility in central Asia. Looks over collection data, visible in zhejiang longquan kilns, has unearthed fire or bad court withdrew failure, the shape of the same, the size is close to or slightly smaller, please see the “big discovery: the housetops states longquan kilns”, 2005, pp. 268-72. Beijing museum of China in possession of a size more book example, recorded in the national museum of China museum collection research, a set of porcelain: in the Ming dynasty, Shanghai, 2007, 112, chart and one, hidden in the root tianjin museum collection of Tokyo, Tokyo in 1997, possesses the number (no); There are two similar example, courtesy of Tokyo gallery light, in “China ceramics: a light museum collections catalog”, Tokyo, in 1987, possesses the 594 and 595; Otherwise a large work (57 cm), in Istanbul top card than the palaces, see Regina krahl, the Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul “, John Ayers, London, 1986, volume 1, 245 chart. Such market, the element face may also refer to the original from yan zhao Ming longquan celadon hand-cut bound branch lotus diamond market, and the day collection Ming yongle states in longquan kiln green glaze flower wen ling mouth tray, the shape of glaze color is similar, also invite comparison.