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One of the varieties of overglaze color is the famous royal porcelain used in the imperial court during the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties of the Qing Dynasty. It is made by applying colored materials as a base on the already fired plain body, adding patterns on the base color, and then firing it in a furnace. It is divided into two types: cloisonné enamel and painted enamel.
Enamel, also known as porcelain body painting enamel, is a variety of colored porcelain that was fired by transplanting copper body painting enamel technology during the Kangxi period. The production of enamel-colored porcelain is different from other porcelain fired in Jingdezhen. Jingdezhen only produces plain bodies. The painting is completed by the court painter in the Imperial Palace in Beijing, and finally the second firing is carried out by the Falang Workshop of the Qing Palace Manufacturing Office. Enamel porcelain inherits various advantages from the development of Chinese ceramics in history, and adopts the most mature technology in terms of drawing, shaping, materials, glazing, color, and firing technology.
Enamel porcelain has a white body and smooth glaze, and bright colors. Its exquisiteness is far beyond the reach of other porcelain. Painting is the essence of enamel porcelain. According to records, from Kangxi to Qianlong, there were many painters who dedicated paper paintings, the more famous ones include: Jiang Tingxi, Lang Shining, etc. The drawings of these famous artists were carefully painted on the enamel porcelain, with both form and spirit, each with its own characteristics.
The emergence of enamel-colored porcelain is an inevitable product in the history of porcelain development. The predecessor of enamel-colored porcelain is cloisonné, which is the so-called painted enamel. It emerged in the Ming Dynasty. It is a craft crystal made by using blue as the background color on a copper body, pinching copper wire, and then filling it with red, yellow, blue, green, white and other colored glazes. During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, this method of painting enamel was used on porcelain bodies. It absorbed the technique of painting enamel on copper bodies. On the porcelain body, various enamel colors were used to depict a new glaze. Colored porcelain.
Although the emergence of the elegant and luxurious enamel is related to the prosperous period of Kangxi, its relationship with Yongzheng is more important. After Yongzheng ascended the throne, he carried out some social reforms and greatly improved the social status of Jingdezhen porcelain artists. Moreover, Yongzheng loved exquisite porcelain. He often evaluated the palace porcelain, personally inspected it, and sent capable officials to manage the porcelain production. When making enamel in the Kangxi and Yongzheng years, good raw materials were first selected from the official kilns in Jingdezhen and burned into blanks and sent to the court.
Enamel porcelain does not have large utensil shapes. Most of them are plates, bowls, cups, bottles, boxes, and pots. Among them, bowls and plates are the most common, but each variety has different variations. Another variety is Yixing purple sand pottery with enamel paint on the outside, which is also rare. Enamel porcelain is very particular about the quality of its body. The sidewalls are extremely thin, even and regular, and closely combined. On such a body, the glaze is extremely fine and the glaze color is extremely white. The surface gloss of the glaze is not like orange peel glaze or sloppy glaze, and there is no brown eye phenomenon. It can indeed be praised as a flawless white jade.