How to choose art ceramics?

Ceramic dishes, tea sets, and wines that are used for catering are learned. Buying art or collecting ceramics is even more knowledgeable. To buy ceramics, you must have a certain amount of ceramic knowledge and artistic accomplishments in order to identify and select good quality ceramics for display and collection at home, in order to show the owner's appreciation level and cultural taste.

Some basic ceramic knowledge:

First, the difference between pottery and porcelain? When it comes to porcelain, the first thing that comes to mind is a glossy, white, and beautifully patterned artwork. Although pottery and porcelain are two things, people are commonly called ceramics. There may also be a friend who simply thinks that the kind of rough, glazed surface is pottery; the surface is smooth and glazed like porcelain. What is more, for the two are not clear, direct call "ceramics." In fact, as a word, ceramic actually contains two meanings, namely pottery and porcelain. The most intuitive understanding in our life is that the bowl for eating is a kind of porcelain, and the flowerpot for planting flowers is pottery.

Pottery and porcelain are daily commodities that people often come in contact with. They have their own characteristics, and they have differences and connections. In the production of ceramics, ceramics and ceramics are two different processes, mainly differing in the following points. Ceramics are made of clay materials, inert materials, and flux raw materials after proper proportioning, crushing, molding, and high-temperature roasting conditions. A series of physical and chemical reactions formed after the hard material. There are a wide variety of ceramic products, chemically classified as silicates. The chemical composition, mineral composition, physical properties, and manufacturing methods between them are often closely intertwined with each other, without obvious boundaries, and there are great differences in application.

Second, what is underglaze color, glaze color, glaze in the color?

Underglaze color: The pattern after firing is covered by a layer of transparent glaze film on the bottom. The surface is bright and soft, smooth and does not protrude. It is bright and translucent. Its characteristic is that the color is well-preserved and durable. Underglaze color main products are blue and white, exquisite, underglaze and sculpted flowers. Blue flowers - hand-drawn, stamped, decals. Exquisitely - Su Linglong, Yingyu Linglong, blue and white exquisite, and exquisite color (engraving, half knife mud, hand drawing, printing, decals). Underglaze has many - hand-painted, printed, sprayed, decals. Carving flowers - piled decals, shadow green engraved, carved flowers, half knife mud. Glazed red - hand drawn.

Glaze color: There are many types of color materials, rich colors, slightly protruding patterns, and the operation is easier than underglaze color. However, the brightness of the screen is poor, and after long-term use, it easily wears and discolors.

Glaze color: In the high temperature fast burning conditions, the product glaze softening and melting, so that the particles of the new pigment into the glaze, when the glaze after cooling is closed, the color will be immersed in the glaze so that the appearance becomes nourishing months, delicate crystal , It has the effect of underglaze color. Its color is soft and moist, and it has strong mechanical wear resistance and corrosion resistance. At the same time, it completely solves the hazard of ceramic lead poisoning. The glaze-inspired decorative pattern process is similar to the underglazed multicolored painting and decal process.

In short, it is distinguished by the glaze as the boundary. The patterns and patterns are underglaze underneath the glaze. In the middle of the two glazes are glazes and the glaze is glazed.

Third, how to buy furnishings art ceramics?

China's display art ceramics, divided into two categories of pottery and porcelain.

The main producing areas of pottery are: Yixing, a ceramic pottery known for teapots and pots; Shiwan, Guangdong Province, famous for pottery figurines and animal shapes; and Luoyang, Henan, which produces Tang Sancai; Shanxi Manyuan, a producer of black glazed pots; Pottery of Sichuan Rongchang.

The main producing areas of porcelain are: Jingdezhen, a porcelain capital with four traditionally famous porcelains: blue-and-white, exquisite, pastel, and color glaze. There are Hunan Fuling, which is famous for glazed colorful decorative art porcelains; it also produces raindrop glazes and innovative porcelain carvings. Shandong Zibo of the arts; Hebei Handan, which produces glazes and enamels; Dehua, Fujian, which produces white porcelain; Zhejiang Longquan, which produces celadon; Chaozhou, Guangdong, which produces glazes, and China; Wait.

The best and easiest way to identify porcelain is to pick up the porcelain and tap it gently to hear whether the sound is crisp, loud and sweet. If it is, this means that it is a porcelain made of high-quality porcelain clay and of good quality. If the sound is heavy when it is knocked on, even if it is hoarse, it is a porcelain made of inferior china clay. The quality is very poor and there are even cracks. Cracked ceramics are not worth the money, and cracked ceramics are not easy to preserve for a long time. Then see the overall effect, whether Zhou Zheng, whether there is deformation, whether the glaze is smooth, there is no difference in color. When choosing art ceramics, in addition to considering price factors, we must not only look at the overall effect, but also carefully examine whether the shape of the device is Zhou Zheng, whether the glaze is smooth, and whether the chroma is the same. There should be no holes such as sand holes, deglazing and other diseases. Look at whether or not the decorative flower face is elegant, harmonious in color, no color difference, uniform and uniform. When choosing a porcelain with gold or silver decoration, wipe it with your hand to see if it is gold or silver.

When the porcelain is purchased, the porcelain should be placed under strong lighting or under sunlight. It can be seen whether the texture is fine and even and there are no cracks. The thin ceramic ceramic products are taken care of under the sun or strong light, and there must be a sense of transparency. Thin and light, and uniform thickness. It is best to buy art ceramics in good light during the daytime. It will be wrong to buy in poor light or dim light, and sometimes it is not satisfactory.