Chinese Ru porcelain: artistic characteristics

The Artistic Characteristics of Chinese Ru Porcelain

Artistic Characteristics of Chinese Ru Porcelain
Craftsmanship:

• Adopting the “foot-firing” technique, the whole body of the object is glazed, and only tiny nails are used for firing, leaving traces of “sesame nails” on the feet, which makes the process extremely difficult. Glaze
  Add onyx powder, so that the glaze shows a unique milky white and jewel glass color, the cost is expensive, there is “jade porcelain” called.

Glaze color:

• The glaze is crystalline and jade-like, with a ghee-like glassiness, showing exquisite variations in different glaze colors, or blue in green, or pink in green.

Open the sheet:

• Glaze natural formation of small ice cracks (open flake), such as cicada wings, like fish scales, known as “pear skin, crab claws, sesame flowers”, is the natural pattern of Ru porcelain, after the baptism of time more rustic.

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Modeling:

• The shape of the objects is simple and dignified, mostly imitating ancient ritual vessels or literati utensils, such as three-legged vases, jade pot vases, lotus bowls, and oval daffodil basins, etc. The lines are smooth and rigorous, reflecting the simple aesthetic ideas of the Song Dynasty.