Precious Chinese Red Porcelains

开篇：润墨网以专业的文秘视角，为您筛选了一篇Precious Chinese Red Porcelains范文，如需获取更多写作素材，在线客服老师一对一协助。欢迎您的阅读与分享！

Red porcelains in history

Red porcelains are what the old saying“nine of ten silos will fail and 1，000 silos can only produce one of such treasures”mentions. After careful observation， you will find that porcelains in daily life are mainly green， white and blue， while red porcelains can only be found in museums or former residences of celebrities.

It is said the earliest red porcelains are an accidental outcome in ancient times. In the silos of Changsha during the Tang Dynasty， bronze was widely used. But insufficient combustion will result in red bronze glaze， which was the debut of red porcelains in China’s porcelain history.

However， such red porcelains won favor of both ordinary people and royal families. There was a moving story circulated in Jingdezhen， the porcelain capital of China， which was about a folk artisan who made porcelains for royal families and lived with his daughter named Jihong. Once， the artisan was ordered to make a big red bottle， but failed after trying dozens of times. With the deadline approaching， his daughter helped burn a porcelain with a solemn red color using her blood. Although his father and all the workers were saved， she didn’t see the red porcelain that shocked the world at last because of too much loss of blood. Such kind of porcelains was thus named “Jihong” in memory of the brave girl. According to historical records， China’s red porcelains first emerged in the late Tang Dynasty， matured in the Yuan Dynasty and reached the peak in the Ming and Qing Dynasties， particularly the under-glaze red porcelains during the reign of Emperor Hongwu in the early Ming Dynasty. Like yellow glazed porcelains （“yellow” has the same pronunciation as “royal”in chinese）， under-glaze red porcelains could only be made in official silos as the color was defined as one especially for the royal families. Emperor Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty liked red very much， ordering all of his soldiers to wear red clothes and most of the porcelains and decorations to be red. The phenomenon of drawing lines on under-glaze red porcelains as wares for royal courts gradually appeared for diversified visual effects.

After developing for decades that included the periods during the reign of Emperor Xuande of the Ming Dynasty and the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty， China’s red porcelainmaking techniques grew increasingly mature and peaked in both color and design during the reign of Emperor Yongzheng. Even so， such red is not bright but slightly dark or light.

Why are the red porcelains so “hot”？

With the passage of time， the Chinese people have been increasingly rather than decreasingly fond of red. In 1983 when the red porcelain-making techniques had been lost for almost 1，000 years， Hunan Provincial Committee of Science and Technologies made the R&D of underglaze red as a key program and delivered it to the scientific & technological team led by Hu Tianfei for a breakthrough.

“Making red porcelains is difficult because the red color cannot stand the high temperature，” Hu Tianfei， the inventor of “Chinese red”， told the reporter of Clan.

In March 2002， a very pure red color appeared on a porcelain sample burned in an electric furnace inside which the temperature reached as high as 1250°. The expert team called it “Chinese red”. Since then， the red porcelain which has almost the same color as the Chinese situations has its own color standard. Hu Tianfei finally achieved success after nearly two decades of hard work.

On multiple important international occasions afterwards， the Chinese red porcelains were grandly presented as diplomatic gifts. The definitely pushed forward the development of red porcelains. But the reporter found that their market prices vary greatly from RMB100 to RMB1 million.

“Burning temperature and late-stage processes are major factors that determine the prices of red porcelains. Chinese red porcelains with truly high quality shall be burnt at a temperature of around 1200°. Whether the gold drawing or color painting on the surface of red glaze is completed by hands or with appliqué greatly affects the quality and collection values of the porcelains，”explained Mr. Hu Xiaowei， son of Hu Tianfei who is presently responsible for m a r k e t i n g a t Hu Tianfei Red Porcelain Art Center.

The process from Chinese red porcelains’ revitalization at the beginning of the century to their widely being recognized at home and abroad is closely related to the charm of redness. “With rich connotation， red becomes a color totem among the Chinese people and can be considered as part of the Chinese culture. Red porcelains certainly should have the highest position in porcelains from the perspective of either collection or appreciation.”