Of course, this Tianqiu vase is also a particularly meaningful piece of porcelain, and there are a lot of them!

The imitation of the celestial ball bottle is a large-scale porcelain for palace furnishings. In addition to the traditional blue and white varieties, five-colored, pastel and other painted celestial globe bottles also began to appear, and the most precious bucket color is rarely used in the celestial globe bottle, the main reason is that the bucket color to no big device.

The Qianlong Dynasty was strong, and Hongli loved the porcelain and elegant ware, so the Tianqiu bottle was also fired by the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Factory.

The characteristics of the Tianqiu bottle are that the fetal bones of the Xuande Tianqiu bottle are thick and heavy, the mouth is short, the neck is wide at the top and the bottom is constricted, the abdomen is large and flat, and the sand bottom is slightly concave. The back imitation of the instrument type has a long neck and a round abdomen.

In the Qing Dynasty, the neck of the celestial sphere was slightly longer, the abdomen was rounder, and the bottom of the flat sand was in the Kangxi period.

During the Qianlong period of Yongzheng, the celestial ball flask was fired more. Yongzheng is straight and slightly skimmed, and the abdomen is flat and round.

During the Qianlong period, the Tianqiu bottle had a thick straight mouth, a round belly, a false circle foot, and some of it was glazed bottom.

Qing Yongzheng, Qianlong two dynasties in the prosperous era, antique style prevailed, imitation of the heavenly ball bottle is a large palace furnishing porcelain.

In addition to the traditional blue and white varieties, painted celestial vases such as multicolored and pastel appeared.

The Qianlong Dynasty was strong, and the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Factory began to burn the Doucai Tianqiu bottle.

It seems that the ball bottle was fired more in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but the real founding firing can be traced back to a much longer time!

According to relevant records, the Tianqiu bottle was created and burned in the Jingdezhen kiln of Yongle and Xuande in the Ming Dynasty, and the Tianqiu bottle was fired more during the Qianlong period of Yongzheng.

Tianqiu bottle from the Ming Yongle, Xuande Chuangjiao to the Qing Yongzheng, Qianlong prolific, has a history of more than 300 years.

But if there were no two ancient works, the Celestial Globe Bottle would have been conclusive! Because two ancient Celestial Globe Bottles were found in Liyang, Jiangsu.

A gray pottery string pattern unglazed celestial globe vase of the Warring States period.

One is a blue-glazed string-patterned celestial ball bottle from the Han Dynasty. These two pieces of celestial ball bottles are basically similar to the celestial globe bottles of the Ming and Qing dynasties in terms of shape.

After expert analysis, they all agree that the shape of these two ancient artifacts is the Tianqiu bottle.

Warring States gray pottery string pattern unglazed celestial ball bottle. The height is 24 cm, the diameter is 5 cm, the maximum diameter of the sphere is 18 cm, and the diameter of the flat bottom is 12.5 cm.

The shape is clumsy, the fetal bone is thick, and from the perspective of the proportion of the whole model, it is more in line with the characteristics of the Tianqiu bottle in the Kangxi period. The shoulders are engraved with two strings with smooth lines. The top of the neck of the neck is engraved with three deep concave string lines, which are thick and thick. There are many irregular block-like diagonal patterns on the abdomen, which is the traditional decoration of Warring States printed pottery.

Han Dynasty blue glazed string pattern celestial ball bottle. The height is 27 cm, the diameter is 5 cm, the maximum true diameter of the sphere is 20 cm, and the diameter of the bottom foot is 11 cm. The shape is regular, delicate and elegant, and the characteristics of the flat belly of the ceiling ball vase in the Ming and Qing dynasties are exactly the same.

The upper half of the sphere to the neck of the neck is full of green glaze, and the glaze is elegant and quiet, and the tire glaze is tightly combined, which is the standard process of dipping glaze on the glaze of the Han Dynasty celadon glaze, and the glaze on the outer wall is not as good as the bottom.

The shoulder of the sphere is also engraved with three double lines of strings in equal parts, which is even more deep and verdant after glaze deposition firing. There are six strings engraved on the neck of the neck, and the three strings separated by each other are engraved with water-filled ripples!

It can be seen that as far as the type of the celestial ball bottle is concerned, it has been fired as early as the Warring States period, and it has a history of about two years. As far as glazed porcelain is concerned, the mature celadon was created and fired at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it is inferred that the creation and firing date of the Tianqiu vase should be at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, that is, before 220 AD.

Xiao Zhang, the genuine product of the ball bottle, has also seen two pieces.

And it's at the Palace Museum!

In the Palace Museum, there are two authentic pieces of the Celestial Sphere Vase!

One is a pastel baby play celestial ball bottle. It belongs to Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, with a height of 51cm, a diameter of 11.3cm, and a foot diameter of 18cm.

The bottle has a straight mouth and a slight skimming, a straight neck, a round belly, and a lying foot. Ornamentation depicted in pastels. The bottle depicts two babies frolicking under the green pine, or setting off firecrackers, or beating gongs and drums, or blowing trumpets, or riding wooden horses, or raising flags, or carrying lanterns, the scene is very lively. Next to the lining of plum blossom mountain stone, point out the theme of "New Year". The outer sole is signed with blue and white "Qianlong Year of the Qing Dynasty" six-character seal book. This vessel is tall and steady, there are many people in the infant play picture, and the scene is large, which is far better than the porcelain of the same decorative theme of Kangxi and Yongzheng Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty.

The other is the blue and white glaze red cloud dragon pattern celestial ball bottle, the celestial ball bottle has a straight mouth, a long neck, a round abdomen like a ball, and a circle foot. The white glaze is applied inside, and the outer wall is painted with blue and white and red glaze clouds and dragons to the sea. The outsole is signed with blue and white seal script "Yongzheng Year of the Great Qing Dynasty" with three lines and six characters. During the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods of the Qing Dynasty, blue and white glaze red, bucket color, pastel and other varieties were fired.

The shape of this bottle is steady and dignified, and it is a more common shape in the porcelain of the official kiln in the Qianlong period. The pattern painting method draws on the expression form of "three appearances of the dragon body in the clouds" often used in the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, the dragon body only reveals three sections, and the other parts are covered by floating clouds, so it is called "one body and three appearances", and there is indeed a sense of "cloud from the dragon". This kind of patch moire is the most popular in Shunzhi. It was also commonly used during the Kangxi period, and the picture was more realistic in the Qianlong period.

Therefore, this celestial globe vase can be said to be a very famous type of ancient porcelain.

However, it has never appeared in Ru porcelain in the Song Dynasty.

Including in modern Ru porcelain, Xiao Zhang has never seen anyone use Ru porcelain to fire the celestial ball bottle!

But this Cao Jiuge dares to do this, this is really a bit powerful!

Because there are some innovations that even Xiao Zhang has not tried.

I didn't even think about it in my heart.

But since meeting this contestant from Jingdezhen, Xiao Zhang found that the best thing Jingdezhen craftsmen are good at is the fusion and innovative firing of different kinds of porcelain between these various dynasties......

The best results have been achieved!

However, at present, these two pieces fired by Cao Jiuge belong to the innovative category of Ru porcelain, and he has not yet fired his classics, that is, to use the most exquisite modeling skills to fire Ru porcelain!

Xiao Zhang didn't know what this Cao Jiuge was waiting for......

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Cao Jiu Ge to finish pulling the blank, and then began to carve on this celestial ball bottle!

The most beautiful patterns on the Celestial Globe Bottle are basically the big dragon cloud pattern, or the patterns of some flowers and plants!

Xiao Zhang could see clearly that the carved pattern of this Cao Jiuge's celestial ball bottle was a pattern full of spheres, and it was the kind of dense pattern......

As soon as I saw this Xiao Zhang, I understood.

It's definitely innovation again.

This is the pure pattern of Qing Dynasty porcelain......

For example, the glaze pattern of this blue and white porcelain will also leave some white space, and there is a contrast between white and cyan......

And this Qing Dynasty porcelain is like to paint all the patterns on the bottle, the more vivid the color, the better, the less white space, the better!

This is an aesthetic style of the Qing Dynasty!

Therefore, this Cao Jiu Ge burns Ru porcelain, the bottle type is indeed a celestial ball bottle, and the secretly engraved pattern is indeed a popular pattern in the Qing Dynasty......

With such a combination, Xiao Zhang didn't have to look at the result at all to imagine the final effect of this Ru porcelain.

Beautiful!

Absolutely stunning......