Liling underglaze colored porcelain [Hunan Liling specialty]

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

Content summary:Do you want to know what Liling underglaze colored porcelain is? This article is a detailed introduction toHunan Liling specialty - Liling underglaze colored porcelain. It was compiled and edited by the editorial team of China Specialty Network after reviewing and collecting relevant information on Liling underglaze colored porcelain. The full text takes about 9 minutes to read, mainly including the basic introduction of Liling underglaze colored porcelain and the product characteristics of Liling underglaze colored porcelain? How did the history of Liling underglaze porcelain come about? The production method of Liling underglaze colored porcelain and the awards and honors of Liling underglaze colored porcelain

Basic Introduction to Liling Underglaze Colored Porcelain

Underglaze Colored Porcelain is a traditional ceramic decorative art in China. It has a long history. As early as the middle Tang Dynasty in the 8th century AD, the Tongguan Kiln in Changsha, Hunan had made important contributions by pioneering a new technology of high-temperature underglaze painting. According to archaeologists' research on relics, there were varieties that painted green under white glaze, brown under yellow glaze, brown green under green glaze, and brown, ochre, and green under blue and yellow glaze at that time

Underglaze colored porcelain uses special materials for body and glaze, rare earths, and pigments developed from non-ferrous metal minerals. With exquisite manual decoration techniques, the pigments are applied between the body and glaze, and the red is fired at a high temperature of about 1400 ℃ to melt the pigments into the body and glaze. The patterns overflow from the glaze layer on the surface of the porcelain, making it crystal clear and moist. It has high whiteness, transparency, and glaze hardness, and the product shape is beautiful, noble, and elegant. The screen decoration of gambling is colorful and lifelike, with a mysterious feeling of "visible, intangible, and never fading". Truly reaching the highest realm of being as thin as paper, as white as jade, as clear as a mirror, and as hoarse as a sound. It has incomparable advantages over porcelain such as enamel decals, powder colors, and spray colors. It does not contain any harmful substances such as lead and cadmium, is acid and alkali resistant, and is suitable for the strict requirements of human living environment and food utensils. It is truly environmentally friendly and healthy porcelain, and its use is beneficial to health

In terms of decoration, in addition to various patterns, a large number of themes such as flowers, birds, animals, and figures are also used to beautify porcelain directly through painting techniques. This is a precedent in the history of Chinese ceramics and a new development in decorative techniques. Since then, the famous Cizhou kiln and other northern folk kilns of the Song Dynasty, as well as the underglaze decoration techniques of blue and white and underglaze red in the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, can be said to have developed under the influence of the Changsha kiln, and opened up the way for overglaze painting, making China's porcelain art achieve outstanding achievements and enjoying high reputation in the world. Liling underglaze porcelain is created into multi-color underglaze paintings based on the above foundation. Its emergence broke through the style of underglaze single color porcelain created by the Changsha kiln in the Tang Dynasty for thousands of years, as well as the single color painting of blue and white and underglaze red in Jingdezhen during the Yuan Dynasty, and brought underglaze color porcelain into a colorful world. In the past two decades, various porcelain producing regions across the country have successively fired this type of porcelain with different production scales and artistic styles. It has become the most important underglaze decoration technique for porcelain and has won the love of people at home and abroad. Underglaze decorative art is a unique flower in the Hundred Flowers Garden of Chinese porcelain art. It combines the beauty of body texture, glaze color, craftsmanship, form, and decoration, and has high aesthetic value and cultural significance

In the early 20th century, famous figures such as Xiong Xiling actively promoted the concept of "one school, two companies", introduced talents, improved processes, and promoted the development of high flame underglaze colored porcelain pigments for various metal oxides in Liling. They created underglaze multicolored porcelain, which first used ink to hook the line, and then used dozens of underglaze pigments such as peach red, sea blue, and golden tea. They used "flat mixing", "color matching", "depth", and "color covering" water separation techniques to paint on the blank. The glaze covering was fired at high temperature, and after firing, the ink evaporated, presenting white line colored patterns

From 1909 to 1915, Liling underglaze multicolored porcelain won the first gold medal of Wuhan Industrial Promotion Association, the first gold medal of Nanyang Industrial Promotion Association, the best award of Italian Expo, and the gold medal of Panama Pacific International Expo due to its excellent texture, smooth and elegant color, rich and colorful, and beautiful artistic characteristics. Thus, the underglaze multicolored porcelain of Liling has become famous both domestically and internationally

The production method of Liling underglaze colored porcelain

Liling underglaze colored porcelain is made by using high-quality kaolin, feldspar, and quartz as raw materials to produce porcelain blanks with a solid, fine, and light white texture. The decorative patterns are painted on the raw material, then covered with a thin and transparent glaze, and finally fired in a high-temperature kiln at over 1300 degrees Celsius. After leaving the kiln, the color of the porcelain becomes crystal clear and moist like gemstones

Awards and honors for Liling underglaze colored porcelain

From 1909 to 1915, it participated in the Hubei Wuhan Encouragement Award Promotion Conference, the Nanyang Encouragement Conference, as well as the Italy and Panama World Expositions, all of which won the first prize, the best prize, and the gold medal respectively. Since then, Liling porcelain has been extremely famous. "The trend spread throughout the country, and merchants from various ports came to Liling to sell porcelain in a continuous stream," marking the first glorious period of Liling fine porcelain industry