Plain three-color seahorse with eight auspicious patterns

[Plain tricolor Seahorse Eight Auspicious Pattern can]

Plain tricolor Seahorse Eight Auspicious Pattern can, in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, is 29.8 cm in height, 13.2 cm in diameter and 13.5 cm in bottom diameter
The mouth of the can lip, short neck, full shoulder, and the lower part of the shoulder are introverted and flat. White glaze is applied inside. The outer wall is decorated with three colors. A total of four blue and white strings along the mouth, shoulder, shin (j ì ng yin jing) and near the bottom divide the decoration into five groups: the neck is painted with eight auspicious patterns on the sea and river cliffs; The shoulder is decorated with eight auspicious patterns of sea spray; Four seahorses are painted on the belly, crossing between the sea and the river cliffs and the eight auspicious places. The seahorses are painted in yellow, purple, dark green and light green of the three plain colors; The feet are decorated with eight auspicious patterns of sea spray. Fine sand bottom, no style
At present, the earliest plain tricolor porcelain fired in Jingdezhen is a relic of the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty. Since the 1980s, many pieces of Ming Chenghua plain tricolor duck incense have been unearthed at the site of Jingdezhen Imperial Ware Factory of the Ming Dynasty. During the Zhengde, Jiajing and Wanli periods of the Ming Dynasty, the plain tricolor craft had achieved high achievements, and by the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, it had developed into a mature porcelain variety with characteristics. Kangxi plain tricolor porcelain is mainly decorated with yellow, green and purple low temperature pigments, which are fired in the kiln at a low temperature of 800-900 ℃ for the second time. Because red color is not used, the picture looks elegant and simple
In the early years of the Republic of China, Xu Zhiheng wrote “Drinking and Drinking Porcelain in Liuzhai” (the fourth “plain three colors” in color), recording: eggplant, yellow Green tricolor painted with patterns is called plain tricolor… “Westerners love it, and its price is very high. The value of a bottle is often as high as ten thousand gold. Monsters are the most exotic, followed by figures, and if flowers and birds, the price is also not cheap. At the same time, the tricolor products are a hundred times higher than other colors.” It can be seen that the plain tricolor ware was very popular among Europeans at that time, and its value is very high.

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