Mystery of the Yuan Dynasty Jingdezhen blue and white porcela

Jingdezhen porcelain is fired with natural earth minerals as cobalt coloring agents, white glaze mold and painted with a brush design patterns, glazed transparent cover, after a high temperature kiln firing of the underglaze porcelain. It is fired in the kiln in the Tang Dynasty Gong county in Henan, Song also burn to the Yuan Dynasty are reaching maturity. Starting from the Yuan Dynasty, after the Ming and Qing, both kiln and kilns, Sheng has been burning unabated, as the most important cultural style polychrome variety, deeply domestic and foreign persons of all ages.
Although successful in the Yuan Dynasty Jingdezhen porcelain firing, but lack of historical records and the lack of a clear set of in-kind support dating, people knowledge and understanding of its history of several hundred blank. Yuan Dynasty blue and white porcelain in the end there? If so, what artistic features it there?
The twenties and thirties of last century, the British Hob Johnson Foundation from the United Kingdom David in the collection of Chinese blue and white porcelain, the first to show a pair of identical shapes of Jingdezhen Blue and White Dragon and Phoenix Chinese ears as bottles, high 63.6 cm, bottle painted with Interlocking Ju, banana leaf, Lotus Scroll, Fei, water Yunlong, Interlocking Peony, miscellaneous and other multi-lianban Po and deformation patterns, bottlenecks still use the blue books are long inscriptions. BC vase is written as "to positive 10 year (AD 1351)," The Last Emperor Yuan Yuan for the benefit of the reign of cases.
As in the Yuan Dynasty, Chinese porcelain is not yet the practice of writing dating the inscription, therefore, found this blue and white porcelain is of great significance. It is the first time to the world declared: This is the Yuan Dynasty Jingdezhen's blue and white porcelain firing.
So, this system of firing the porcelain in Jingdezhen, how is it lost to England? According to well-known ceramics appraiser to Mr. Zhao Gengbaochang This green vase Beijing Zhihua Temple was originally the case for the device before. 1929 Born in Fujian Province, a British overseas Chinese vase was Hee Ng Dalai trafficked to Britain, the United Kingdom 伦敦达维德 Foundation collection. Beijing Liulichang apprentice, later identified as the ceramics expert Mr. Sun Huiyuan also recalled that during his lifetime: This paragraph element with Blue and White, who had worked in the market, spread over Liulichang heritage, because at that time can not believe there are blue and white Yuan Dynasty porcelain, no one recognized, and later lost his state.
However, Hob Johnson reports too simple, but also the lack of more convincing evidence, that there was no concern and attention to academics. 50 years until the 20th century, American scholars, Dr. Pope to this blue and white porcelain with a standard device models, the control of Iran and Turkey, Museum of Chinese blue and white porcelain were other analog studies, and only then with the Blue and White Style Features similar blue and white porcelain as "to positive-type" blue and white porcelain. Later, with the standard device identification and archaeological discoveries in China in the Yuan Dynasty Jingdezhen blue and white porcelain gradually started to come the knowledge. Within the next half century, scholars at home and abroad for further studies, they identified a number of "to positive-type" style of the Yuan Dynasty Jingdezhen blue and white porcelain.
"To positive-type" element Jingdezhen blue and white porcelain, the shape is generally larger, representative objects are vase, vase, ewer, Height, cups, large cans, tape, etc.. Now in the possession of Turkey, Iran and other countries of the blue and white porcelain, with four 50 cm diameter, flower export the tape, it is said to adapt to local residents sat on the floor, hands Zhuafan and eating customs may be burned. Height, cup cup immediately known, created the element, is to facilitate the production of Mongolian nomadic life.
"To positive-type" element of Jingdezhen porcelain decoration selected subjects, mostly dragon and phoenix, unicorn, peony, Interlocking, and such as "General Meng Tian", "Highlighting", "under the catch on Han Xin Xiao He," "Lady Zhaojun" so full of wonderful color and rich humanistic significance of the subject matter, combined with a number of paintings, all under the Yuan court for the Bureau of the kind of painting, artist carefully painted by kind of tension, the unique number of the Yuan Dynasty blue and white Art Deco style, well known world.
China's Yuan Dynasty blue and white porcelain produced in Jingdezhen, in particular, "to positive-type" blue and white porcelain, survive in the world less, there are unique historical, scientific and artistic value, while competing for the public and private museums and personal collections hunting target, the other On the one hand, it is not renewable heritage special cultural goods, no matter how high it it the earnest hope handed down at home and abroad more than 300 items on it. According to incomplete statistics, the loss of dollars in overseas more than 110 pieces of blue and white, the main collection in the Middle East, Turkey, Iran and other countries. Domestic collection of about 200 pieces, mostly around the archaeological excavations unearthed after the founding of the current major collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing, Beijing Capital Museum, Jingdezhen, etc..
Facts have proved that the Yuan Dynasty Jingdezhen, the porcelain has been able to burn fine.