Liling Porcelain [Hunan Liling Specialty]

What is Liling porcelain? Authentic Hunan Liling specialty: Liling porcelain

Content summary:Do you want to know what Liling porcelain is? This article is a detailed introduction to the special product of Liling, Hunan Province - Liling Porcelain. It was compiled and edited by the editorial team of China Specialty Network after reviewing and collecting relevant information about Liling Porcelain. The full text takes about 16 minutes to read, mainly including the basic introduction of Liling Porcelain and the product characteristics of Liling Porcelain? How did the history of Liling porcelain come about? How to distinguish between genuine and fake Liling porcelain? The awards and honors of Liling porcelain

Basic Introduction to Liling Porcelain

Porcelain culture is a highly representative culture of China. In English, both China and porcelain are referred to as "CHINA", indicating the enormous influence of Chinese porcelain on a global scale.

. Underglaze colored porcelain is a traditional ceramic decorative art in China, especially the underglaze colored porcelain produced in Liling, which enjoys a high reputation in the world. Liling porcelain has delicate texture and exquisite pattern painting, especially the underglaze multicolored porcelain, which is colorful and has high artistic and practical value

1. Early Stage

Previously, Liling porcelain used a single cobalt oxide (commonly known as earth ink) as the decorative material. After manually depicting rough floral patterns, it was glazed and covered, and fired into underglaze blue and white porcelain. From 1907 to 1908, Hunan Ceramic Industry School developed various underglaze pigments such as grass green, sea blue, bright black, ochre, and agate red. A renowned painter from Hunan Ceramic Manufacturing Company and a graduate of the Ceramic Painting Class at the Ceramic Industry School, after repeated research and development, used self-made underglaze pigments, applied traditional Chinese painting double hook water filling and "three firing" methods to produce refreshing underglaze colorful porcelain. The underglaze multicolored porcelain has delicate texture, exquisite painting skills, fresh and elegant beauty, unique style, and colorful underglaze layer, presenting vivid images with high artistic and practical value. Its emergence immediately received great attention and praise from industry insiders and domestic and foreign public opinion. From 1909 to 1911, Liling underglaze multicolored porcelain participated in the Wuhan Industrial Promotion Association, Nanyang Industrial Promotion Association, and Italian Dulang International Competition, winning consecutive gold medals. Liling porcelain began to become famous in China and went global. White as jade, bright as a mirror, thin as paper, and sound like a bell "was the good evaluation that Liling porcelain won at that time

In 1915, in the second and middle period, Liling porcelain traveled across the oceans and participated in the Panama Pacific International Exposition held in San Francisco, the United States. The underglaze multicolored lentil double bird porcelain bottle and Kweichow Moutai wine won the highest honor, winning back two gold medals for China. The Xiangdou Double Bird Porcelain Vase is a classic work of Hunan Porcelain Company in 1911. The bottle is 46.8 centimeters high, with a rim diameter of 20 centimeters. The body of the bottle is as white as jade, and its shape resembles a phoenix tail. The lines are smooth, and its glaze is crystal clear and moist. The colors are stable and elegant, and the composition of the patterns is vivid and natural. The exquisite craftsmanship is breathtaking, and it is praised by foreign public opinion as the "peak of Eastern ceramic art". Since then, Liling porcelain has become world-renowned, with a continuous stream of purchasing merchants. A number of private fine porcelain manufacturing companies have been built one after another, and the prosperity at that time was on par with Jingdezhen. Underglaze multicolored porcelain has become a distinctive feature of Chinese ceramics and a global innovation

After a short period of development of one to twenty years, the production of underglaze multicolored porcelain began to decline in the late 1920s due to multiple wars. More than a hundred porcelain factories in Liling stopped production, and the earliest Hunan Ceramic Manufacturing Company to produce underglaze multicolored porcelain also closed down in 1930, interrupting the production of underglaze multicolored porcelain

III. After Liberation

In 1949, Liling was peacefully liberated, and the struggling Liling porcelain industry was like a withered tree in spring. In the following years, the Liling porcelain industry quickly recovered and made significant progress. In 1954, in order to restore the production of underglaze colored porcelain that had been interrupted for more than 20 years, after multiple visits by relevant departments, Wu Shouqi, the first graduate of the pottery painting class at the Hunan Ceramic Industry School and an underglaze colored artist, was found. At this time, Mr. Wu was nearing old age and enjoying his later years in the countryside. After coming out of the mountains, Wu Lao trained underglaze painting personnel while reforming traditional craftsmanship, changing the "three firing" to two firing, and the production of underglaze multicolored porcelain was restored in a short period of time. Afterwards, Hunan Ceramic Research Institute and Liling Porcelain Company Art Porcelain Factory (Qunli Porcelain Factory) were successively established, becoming specialized units engaged in research and production of underglaze color decoration. During this period, Liling porcelain industry quickly achieved a historic transformation from manual labor to machinery, from firewood kilns to coal kilns. New materials, new technologies, new processes, and new products emerged one after another, and underglaze multicolored porcelain flourished again, even earning the reputation of "national porcelain"

Firstly, listen to the sound. The sound of high-quality products is clear and loud, with echoes lingering after the collision of the cup body and lid. The sound of low-quality products is heavy and muffled, with little or no clear echoes

Secondly, looking at the color, the superior product has a jade like color, while the inferior product has a gray and dark color

Thirdly, transparency, high-quality products have strong transparency and good glossiness. Under the illumination of light, they emit red light like a big red lantern; Poor quality products are opaque

Fourth, thickness and weight. Youpin uses high-quality porcelain clay, which makes the porcelain very light and the walls very thin; Inferior products are thick and heavy

Awards and honors for Liling porcelain

In 1909 (the first year of the Xuantong reign), Liling underglaze multicolored porcelain won the first-class gold medal at the Wuhan Encouragement Award.