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Chapter 96

Porcelain is the pride of Chinese people for thousands of years. However, the British broadened their thinking on kaolin white porcelain, let go of themselves, and mixed about 40.00% of beef bone powder into the porcelain clay, giving birth to heresy— — bone china.

And its existence is actually just an unsuccessful imitation. China exported ceramics to Europe more than 2000 years ago. Of course, the Venetian merchants who watched a lot of banknotes flowed to the East would not be idle. There are countless glass islands in Venice. Craftsmen have been working hard for this.

Until the seventeenth century, one of the skilled craftsmen obtained the thin-bodied porcelain produced by JDZ. This magical porcelain, which is as thin as paper, white as jade, as bright as a mirror, and as loud as a chime, was sold at an extremely expensive price in Europe. Ni, what De Beers, is completely incomparable.

A piece of porcelain can be exchanged for an army. Lamps made of thin porcelain have a more fantastic and blurred effect than glass lamps.

Before the unconvinced British wanted to sell opium to China, they still did some human affairs. For example, they began to work hard on porcelain, adding bone meal and aluminum powder to the clay, in order to achieve a glass with a less Transparent milky white.

It's a pity that the imitation is always imitation, and the effect of thin-bodied porcelain has not been fully achieved, so the sales variety was changed. Since the animal bones have no effect, they turned to plants and extracted C17H19NO3 from them.

Since there is a possibility of bone china, you can give it a try.

Fortunately, during the internship at JDZ, Zhao Chengping did not devote himself to drawing glaze patterns like other students, but had a serious understanding with the kiln workers about the five famous kilns in China and the firing of porcelain from other countries in the world. difference in method.

I don’t remember anything else, but what I remember most clearly is the temperature of bone china. The firing temperature of ordinary white porcelain is about 1300 degrees, while that of bone china is about 1200 degrees. Large, the resulting finished product will shrink by about 20.00%, and ordinary white porcelain only has [-]%, so the shape is very easy to deform. If you want to burn something like a bowl or plate, you must fire it in a special mold.

As for such a complicated shape, bone china is definitely not suitable for firing.

Zhao Chengping grabbed a handful of soil: "This kind of soil can only be used to make porcelain with simple shapes. What I want to make cannot be fired with this kind of soil."

He paused, and then said: "Actually, I'm also very curious, why the barbarians bring bone china clay. What is the barbarian here for?"

After hearing him finish talking about the bone china, Luo Xinyuan, who was very angry at not being able to finish the work in time, was relieved. He had seen bone china before, and if it was sold in China, it might be able to sell for a good price.

"Is it still too late?" Zhao Chengping asked the kiln worker.

The kiln worker shook his head, there were still seven days before the delivery, and Zhao Chengping's reservation was really huge, only half of it could be fired, and the other half could not be rushed out no matter what.

The capacity of each porcelain kiln is limited, and the kiln worker's grasp of the fire is also a very difficult thing to say, and there is also the possibility of kiln changes. Although kiln changes may produce orphan products with more peculiar colors, more Might be burning something really bad.

Therefore, Zhao Chengping did not want to leave this matter to too many porcelain kilns to share the matter.

If half of the gap is missing, it will have a huge impact on the delivery. Zhao Chengping was pinching the porcelain clay in his hands, and Luo Xinyuan looked at the pile of deformed porcelain, and was speechless for a while.

In addition to porcelain, there are several options: metal, just like the real earliest material of 罍, is bronze, but there are not many copper ore and tin mines in the local area, and it has to be transported in large quantities from other places, and bronze models need to be remade. I'm afraid it will delay more time.

There is also lacquerware, but lacquerware can only be used as wine utensils and not wine jars.

For clay pottery, it is easy to get a large amount of clay, and the pottery and porcelain molds can also be used in common, which is not a problem, and the success rate is even higher.

The only problem is the final decoration. Porcelain looks gorgeous, moist and shiny, but pottery looks much worse.

Although Zhao Chengping has brilliant brushwork, no matter how beautiful the flowers and plants are, they can't stand out against the loess background. They can only be matched with the style of ink and wash landscape. superior.

Don't worry, think about it carefully, Zhao Chengping closed his eyes, and Luo Xinyuan was also searching hard for something that could be used for delivery in his memory.

Suddenly, the two opened their eyes at the same time, happened to look at each other, and said in unison: "Japanese pottery."

For the Yi people, China and Japan both belong to the distant east. Although Japan has experienced a series of changes such as the Black Ship Switch and the Meiji Restoration in advance, for Europeans, those in Japan Handicrafts, like Chinese objects, have not yet entered the Western market in large quantities.

If it is based on Japanese ceramics and combined with a Chinese-style design, it will be an unprecedented bold attempt.

To combine the fineness of Japan with the grandeur of China requires designers to have a deep understanding of the cultural traditions of both countries.

Just now Luo Xinyuan could also think of the day.This pottery shows that he also has some knowledge and must be qualified for this job.

Zhao Chengping asked: "Brother Luo has also seen Japanese pottery?"

Luo Xinyuan smiled: "I'm ashamed to say that, when brother Zhao was studying in the provincial capital, my father sent me to study in Japan. Unfortunately, I didn't learn anything after all, so I had to come back disheartened."

I thought that Luo Xinyuan would only be with Japan when doing business.I have some contact with this pottery, but I didn't expect that I have already gone abroad to see the world.

"Brother Luo is amazing, I don't know which university you are studying in Japan?" Zhao Chengping asked.

It was obvious that Luo Xinyuan was taken aback for a moment, then paused, before saying, "Imperial University."

"Imperial University? The one in Tokyo? It's amazing, a top student at Tokyo University. I thought you would go to Japan's Army Academy." Zhao Chengping followed up tentatively.

Luo Xinyuan smiled: "Army Red Deer."

"You are a navy, you should be ashamed." Zhao Chengping continued smoothly.

The two looked at each other and smiled again, Luo Xinyuan asked, "How do you know this?"

"Well, I heard it from my classmates when I was studying in the provincial capital." Zhao Chengping put down the porcelain clay in his hand: "Since I want to make pottery again, I have to make another design."

After laying out the paper, Zhao Chengping thought for a while, then drew on the paper the most stylish Japanese sake utensils he had ever seen in his memory. Back then, he was complained by his classmates: "I can't make good-looking ones, so I hold them back." It is said that it is simple, quiet and respectful.

(End of this chapter)