The unique charm of purple pottery also lies in the organic combination of painting and calligraphy art, carving and mud filling technology. Purple pottery pays attention to meticulous workmanship, especially to decoration It takes painting and calligraphy seal cutting and colored mud filling as the main means, and integrates painting and calligraphy, seal cutting, inlay and micro-carving, which is unique in spirit and form. After the ceramic blank is inked, the artists carefully carve the ink into the mold according to the sample, and then after filling the color mud, trimming the blank, air drying, entering the kiln, roasting and polishing, the purple pottery presents a multi-tone color with an ancient and colorful stone gas.
Its decorative techniques of "residual paste" and "light color" make the ancient Jianshui ceramic art superb and wonderful, and it is unique in the decorative culture of China ceramic art. It not only retains the charm of famous artists' pen and ink, but also takes into account the characteristics of ceramic blanks in different cambered surfaces and wet States, showing the solid foundation of famous artists' grasping ink and hanging elbows, and inheriting the unique production technology of purple pottery.
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The clay of Jianshui Purple Pottery is taken from Jianshui, Yunnan Province, and it has five colors: red, yellow, cyan, white and purple, so it is called "Caiyun Pottery".
Zitao adopts the artistic technique of "sticking pieces to pieces", the decorative effect of "bright colors" and the fine polishing technology of pebbles, which perfectly combines calligraphy art with Zitao craft. The products are diverse and exquisite, including pots, cups, pots, bowls, plates, cans, steamers, pipes, Four Treasures of the Study and hundreds of other utensils. After being filled with colored mud, trimmed, air-dried, baked and polished, it presents a multi-tone texture change and produces a gorgeous aura of Gu Zhuo.
Jianshui Zitao can be divided into the following categories:
1, divided into artistic pottery and daily-use pottery according to their uses.
2. According to the color of clay, it is divided into red clay and white clay.
3. According to the polishing type of products, it can be divided into mirror light, bright light, dumb light and dumb light.
4. According to product specifications, it is divided into small, medium, large and special.
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