Pale crimson color, shape, style and painting.

In its heyday, light crimson porcelain occupied almost all the daily-use porcelain. Here are only a few common porcelain shapes.

(1) The sizes of porcelain plates and pale crimson colored porcelain plates vary from six inches to three feet according to the existing "decoration" in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, while the handed down pale crimson colored porcelain plates are mostly thirty or forty centimeters wide and forty or fifty centimeters high. There are two kinds of thickness, one is thick, about 6 to 8 mm, and the other is only 3 to 5 mm thick. The shape is mainly rectangular, and it is round and fan-shaped when it is used to embed furniture. Thin and small porcelain plates are generally burned horizontally in the kiln, so there is a "sand bottom" at the bottom, and medium and large ones are more than one foot long, and there are equidistant raised fetal bones on the back to prevent deformation.

⑵ Bottles and vases (more than 80 cm) were popular in the late Qing Dynasty, and there were few pale crimson vessels, which was related to the fact that pale crimson was only suitable for freehand brushwork. Bottle is the most common kind of shallow crimson utensils. There are elephant ears on the left and right sides, usually painting before and after, calligraphy on the left and right sides. In addition, there are gateball bottles and bravery bottles. , mostly small pieces.

⑶ Cap tube: There are probably more pale crimson cap tubes that have been passed down to this day than any other utensils. The height is about 40 cm, mainly round, hexagonal and square, and some have windows on all sides for ventilation or decoration. This kind of utensils are usually placed in pairs in the hall, which was the most popular in Tongzhi and Guangxu years.

(4) Tableware and tea set. In tableware, the soup pot is the largest, generally round and straight, about 6 to 10 cm high, with copper ears on both sides, thick tires and a cover. This kind of tableware was popular during the reign of Xianfeng Tongzhi. Bowl is a typical hexagonal bowl. This kind of bowl glaze is thick, high and full, and it is often treated with the same money. Flat plates are rare. Tea sets are mainly teapot, tea tray and lid. Teapots are hexagonal, square, round and melon-edged, with more bottoms. Tea trays are utensils for holding small handles, mostly oval and round, with a side height of about 1 cm. People or landscapes are painted on plates, usually bare tires or sand bottoms. Cover cup is a popular tea set in the late Qing Dynasty, which consists of a cover, a cup and a bottom. The delicate light crimson cover cup has pictures on three sides.

Pale crimson porcelain has some typical characteristics: (1) Before Guangxu, square and prismatic wares (including porcelain) were mostly "rice soup glaze". ⑵ Most of the utensils are thick, and the whiteness of white glaze is generally not high. Sometimes the glaze made by famous artists will be smoother and whiter. (3) Except for the objects that need to be inlaid, such as ceramic tiles, most of the colored wares have a gold rim and are decorated with a circle of gold glaze, which is somewhat similar to the "sauce mouth" in the early Qing Dynasty. However, this kind of gold glaze is easy to peel off, and few of them are well preserved.

There are two kinds of colored porcelain: (1) model year. At present, only Tongzhi and Guangxu dynasties have been found. "Tongzhi" appears most frequently, and Fan Hong writes it directly on the bottom of the device with a border. During the Guangxu period, the words "Guangxu year system" were mostly used, and some of them were not mounted. ⑵ Room names are divided into two categories: author's name and collector's name. The former is like Chi Ming Tsui Hark's You Zhu Xuan Zuo, and the latter is like the collection of Shinohara Garden, the original copy of Cheng Men's Joy of Living in A Qin. Some works at the bottom are made of blue and white, while others are made in the later stage.

The most successful painting theme in pale crimson painting is landscape, which often embodies the artistic conception in literati painting since the Yuan Dynasty, and is often accompanied by poetry. Pale crimson landscapes often take quiet small scenes like Lin Ting, in which the characters are red or cyan, which attracts people's attention. Back to the distant mountains, a layer of ochre and a layer of cyanine are often used to express the layering.

Pale crimson flower-and-bird paintings are mainly auspicious, similar to Shanghai flower-and-bird paintings. Birds draw parrots, ribbons, cranes and magpies; Most flowers are wisteria, plum blossom, orchid, pine, bamboo, peony and so on. To cater to the tastes of the citizens at that time. Due to the influence of materials, the light crimson flowers are not very bright, so peony and lotus flowers are all painted smaller. However, the artist's creativity is not limited to this. They chose woody flower clusters as objects, such as crape myrtle and peach blossom, and achieved good results.

Pale red figure painting can be divided into portraits and figures. Portrait painting must strive to depict carefully. Not light crimson. It is understood that only Wang Shaowei and Wang Qi can draw a light crimson portrait, but in light crimson porcelain, portraits are extremely rare.

Pale crimson ladies are emaciated in appearance, quiet in manner and elegant in dress, and they mostly follow the style of Geqi (1773- 1826), a famous figure painter in Daoguang period. Tao Ya said, "The figures in Daoguang Kiln seem to have changed seven times." There is another cloud: "The porcelain statues painted in the past dynasties are all similar in appearance. Because there were only one or two painters at that time, it is a pity that my surname has not been passed down. "

Pale crimson colored porcelain is also decorated with independent calligraphy, which is also an innovative breakthrough. Cheng Men, Jin Pinqing, Wang Shaowei and others are all engaged in calligraphy. On the whole, he did not leave Zhao (Zi Ang) and Dong (Qi Chang) all the way, similar to the wind of advocating running script in the first and middle period of Qing Dynasty. The style of "popular" calligraphers will have an impact on the contemporary popular calligraphy style. For example, the regular script seems to be a prince, and what is Ren's running script? In the Qing dynasty, the study of inscriptions on stone tablets became the trend of the scribes, which was also reflected in the reddish colored porcelain. For example, there is a calligraphy inscription on one side of the bottle in Chi Ming Xu's "The Picture of a Queen Star and a Woman". From Ruan Yuan's Notes on Ji Gu Zhai Zhong Ding. Later, it became popular to decorate shallow crimson vessels with inscriptions on bronzes, usually painting on one side of the vessels. The other is decorated with bronze inscriptions (generally Fan Hong characters) with auspicious words such as "Children and grandchildren will enjoy forever", which has been popular until the early years of the Republic of China.

The value of light crimson colored porcelain changes gradually.

In recent years, in the porcelain collection, a kind of pale crimson porcelain has attracted more and more attention from collectors, and its value is also rising. Especially in the antique market, from time to time, people can ask the stall owner if he has any pale crimson colored porcelain, and the stall owner will naturally pay a high price to come up with some best-selling pale crimson colored porcelain. At the same time, the works of famous reddish porcelain artists such as Cheng Men and Wang Fengchi also appeared in some domestic auctions, and gradually formed a fixed collection group. This situation is in sharp contrast with the 1970s and 1980s, when pale crimson porcelain was not recognized by collectors and nobody cared about it. Some insiders pointed out that with the collectors' gradual understanding of the unique technological value of pale crimson colored porcelain, pale crimson colored porcelain will make a difference in the market.

Pale crimson colored porcelain is a kind of porcelain decoration. "Pale crimson" is a concept borrowed from Chinese painting. It is a landscape painting technique that began to appear in China in Yuan Dynasty, and light crimson colored porcelain is a new variety of over-glaze colored porcelain produced in Jingdezhen in the late Qing Dynasty. It is an over-glaze colored porcelain made of dark and light glaze, painted with decorative patterns on the porcelain tire, dyed with light ochre, grass green, light blue and other colors, and fired at low temperature. In addition to landscapes, there are people, flowers and so on.

Most artists engaged in the production of light crimson colored porcelain have high artistic accomplishment, and most of them are proficient in painting and calligraphy, and are good at poetry writing. When making light crimson colored porcelain, one person is responsible for drawing, sketching and rendering, and the picture is free and easy, full of artistic expression. This kind of colored porcelain is characterized by the author's name or poem engraved on it, which shows the traditional expression of Chinese painting poetry and calligraphy for the first time on porcelain, and has a strong cultural atmosphere.

Tongzhi and Guangxu periods were the most popular periods of light crimson porcelain. Porcelain bottles, plates, lids, teapots and flowerpots were all the rage at that time. Later, artists began to paint and fire porcelain with imported colored materials, that is, a new pastel, which began to become a new fashion, replacing light red colored porcelain. Pale crimson colored porcelain is a unique variety in the history of China and a unique artistic type in the history of the late Qing Dynasty.

In 1970s and 1980s, there were many kinds of pale crimson porcelain in Chinese cultural relics shops. At that time, many people didn't know this kind of porcelain, and there were few collections in national museums and folk. Almost all cultural relics shops sell in bulk at low prices. Later, a few people realized its collection value and began to collect it selectively. After 1990s, especially in recent years, with people's understanding of this kind of porcelain, the price of pale red colored porcelain began to heat up. 1994, Shanghai auction company specially launched some light crimson porcelain, which aroused people's interest. Now, pale crimson porcelain has become an independent collection variety, with many fans, and some folk collection groups have specially organized a collection exhibition of pale crimson porcelain.

Pay attention to the integrity of the picture when collecting light crimson porcelain. Pale crimson porcelain is fired at low temperature. Due to the limitation of pigment and firing process, the combination of pigment and fetal glaze is not close enough, and it is easy to fall off. Pay attention to it when collecting. Second, we should pay attention to the collection of famous books. In the production of light crimson colored porcelain, a large number of outstanding talents have emerged. Their works are of high artistic level and have high appreciation value. At the same time, due to the limitation of historical conditions, there are not many relevant materials preserved. It was only after the 1990s that people recognized them to some extent. The representative figures at that time were: Cheng Men, the word Songsheng; Jin Hao, the word is clear; Wang,, word; Wang Fengchi, whose real name is Chen Dan, actually has many masters of pale crimson porcelain who have not been recorded and can only be judged by their works.