Chapter 282: Ru porcelain plain firing and Tang Sancai's glaze configuration
Fortunately, the organizers of this competition have prepared a very large kiln mouth for each participating craftsman.
It belongs to the kind of large kiln that can hold hundreds of pieces.
If this is a small kiln, Xiao Zhang's Ru porcelain pieces can't be put into it at all.
Because it's really too big.
Other participating masters may still be firing a wine jug of more than ten centimeters, or a 20 centimeter Guanyin bottle, and at most a 30 centimeter pan bottle, but Xiao Zhang's dripping Guanyin statue here is a large piece of nearly 50 centimeters......
It's not easy to place at all.
And it's very heavy.
Xiao Zhang placed the dripping Guanyin statue in the leftmost position in the kiln, and the Dazun was naturally placed in the rightmost position, so that the uniform placement was also for the harmony of the overall space, and the temperature was fully fired.
Two melon-edged phoenix-patterned bottles, Xiao Zhang is placed in the middle.
The holding pot is placed in the innermost, while the turtle dragon paperweight is placed in the front.
After everything was placed, Xiao Zhang gently closed the door of the kiln, and then began to light the fire and adjust the temperature.
This vegetarian roast is still very simple, and Xiao Zhang is also familiar with the road.
There are hardly any errors.
Xiao Zhang has gone through many times of vegetarian firing and basically mastered all the skills.
In addition, the current firing skills possessed by Xiao Zhang are at the grandmaster level, so Xiao Zhang is not worried about any changes in this kiln at all.
There is no problem with the temperature and the placement of the kiln.
The drying of this Ru porcelain has also gone through a long time, and there will be no errors, and Xiao Zhang has finally finished today's work.
The rest is not in a hurry.
This porcelain needs to be fired for about ten hours.
Of course, Xiao Zhang didn't need to watch here all the time, looking at the time, Xiao Zhang decided to go eat something first, and then go to Tang Sancai's firing site to configure Tang Sancai's glaze.
After all, this Tang Sancai mud tire has been done, but this glaze has not been done yet, which is a key point.
The key glaze color for this victory is certainly essential.
In addition to the blue glaze he had tried before, Xiao Zhang was also ready to try some more glaze colors.
Because this time the system also rewarded Xiao Zhang with a large variety of raw materials, Xiao Zhang naturally had the idea of competing in his heart after seeing Tang Xinghe's beautiful abstract painting-like glaze.
After all, Xiao Zhang is a person who does not admit defeat at all.
Where others are strong, I will hit others.
This is Xiao Zhang's consistent style.
I looked at the inside of the kiln again.
When the temperature in this kiln gradually stabilized, Xiao Zhang was relieved.
This is a low temperature firing of the plain tires of Ru porcelain, and then a second firing of glazed clay tires to a high temperature......
Tang Sancai is the complete opposite, Tang Sancai is the firing of high-temperature redox reaction, when firing the plain tire is high temperature, but the firing of glazed ceramics is low-temperature......
Therefore, the Chinese ceramics are broad and profound, and each one is related to each other and has differences.
Xiao Zhang was relieved and left the firing site of Ru porcelain.
Not long after Xiao Zhang left......
About half an hour...... People have already started to come here.
Because the masters who opened the kiln this morning to fire the plain tires are ready to open the kiln!
So it's basically an hour or two early......
No one expected that Xiao Zhang would secretly come over and open his kiln!
This vegetarian roast was actually carried out......
Some people even waited here until about five or six o'clock in the evening, but Xiao Zhang still didn't come, but there was no one around at this time, and this kid secretly came to open the kiln. Is there some ulterior secret?
Or is there some big trick behind this kid?
The crowd will not know.
But this depression is also a wonder.
Most of these people came to open the kiln, and this Xiao Zhang has just begun to burn.
It took about six or seven hours to leave the house.
People are waiting for an hour or two for the kiln to open, and Xiao Zhang has only burned for an hour or two, which has to say that Xiao Zhang himself has some special ideas.
What the hell did he do during the day?
Why didn't he open the kiln when everyone was opening it?
Is there something special about it? Or is it deliberately sensationalizing?
All this can only be known until the end, after all, it will be delayed for so long at most, and after the delay game is over, you haven't burned it yet, so you can only be eliminated.
Almost within an hour, the participating masters returned to the competition site one after another, and everyone was ready to open the kiln!
And looking at the position of this Xiao Zhang, it is still empty......
Only the kiln mouth that has just been burned is left to revel alone......
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Let's say that after Xiao Zhang left the Ru porcelain scene, he went to the night stall outside to eat.
After all, Xiao Zhang is a powerful eater, and the amount of food for two people on weekdays is not a problem.
Under normal circumstances, Su Yuli came to deliver food to Xiao Zhang.
But this time he was rejected by Xiao Zhang.
Because what Xiao Zhang is more afraid of is that this matter is exposed......
If Su Yuli accidentally found out that she had participated in the Tang Sancai Competition, she told Su Daqiang or the teacher by the way, wouldn't this be an accident!
So Xiao Zhang chose not to see Su Yuli on the pretext that he needed to concentrate on the game this time, and he was going to say that he was going to end the game.
Xiao Zhang quickly finished eating and returned to Tang Sancai's firing site!
The staff at the door is still wondering, didn't this guy just leave?
How did you come back again?
Didn't you go out for a meal?
Xiao Zhang: This will come to Tang Sancai's firing site, mainly to configure Tang Sancai's metal glaze.
It can be said that the brilliant achievements of Tang Sancai's glaze production are a strong stroke in the history of Chinese ceramics, occupying an important and irreplaceable position.
Tang Sancai was first unearthed in Luoyang, called Luoyang Sancai at that time, in 1904 the railway was built through Pishan, unearthed a large number of Tang Sancai to attract the attention of the world, only to gradually become known, famous all over the world.
It has beautiful shapes, gorgeous colors, and is very widely used, in addition to utensils and other living utensils, there are architectural components, furniture models, figurines, animal figurines and other sculptures, which occupy a very important position in the history of sculpture.
The reason why it can attract so much attention is because the glaze of this Tang Sancai is really beautiful.
For example, a very famous Tang Sancai blue glaze jar, the diameter of this jar is about 12.7 cm, the height is about 26.5 cm, and the bottom diameter is about 12.3 cm.
This jar is precious in the millennium unchanged color glaze, the glaze is gorgeous and colorful, beautiful, spiritual treasure, the most valuable is the glaze appears pure cobalt blue glaze, which is the color of Tang Sancai glazed pottery. Its glaze is old and dull, vivid, and the glaze is exposed.
The shape of the vessel is regular, the flower mouth, the shoulder, the four sides of the shoulder are respectively molded into a semi-S-shaped small handle, the double system of the lower pot surface is decorated with embossed yellow glaze eight-petal flowers, the symmetrical paste on both sides below is shaped like a sheep's head pattern, and the other two sides are symmetrically pasted like a toad pattern, and the shoulder is gradually closed to the bottom, flat bottom, solemn shape, and fluent lines.
On the whole, there is no doubt that its door is open, and the mountain is immediately visible.