Yingqing White Porcelain Lidded Bowl

Shadow celadon porcelain, also known as Ying Qing porcelain, is the Han traditional porcelain craft treasures, its predecessor is the blue and white porcelain, known as “color white and blue” shadow celadon porcelain is the mid-North Song Dynasty Jingdezhen created, its glaze green and white and light, glaze clear Li Jie, the tire texture of the firm and greasy white, the color of the warm and moist as jade, so the history of the “fake jade,” the name. Li Qingzhao in the southern song dynasty in “drunken flower yin” in the “jade pillow yarn kitchen” sentence, jade pillow refers to the blue and white porcelain pillow. Yuan dynasty blue and white porcelain products, some also printed with “jade out of Kunshan” and “jade out of Kungang” inscription. The Southern Song Dynasty mass production, and “known in the sea”, is the market of the sought-after goods. At that time, the vast majority of shadow celadon porcelain for the thin picking and transparent flying phoenix and other patterns. These patterns were carved by highly skilled ceramic artists on the blanks and then fired at a high temperature with a transparent green glaze.

“Shadow green” glaze color is mainly divided into two categories: one is white in the flash light green, thick flash dark green, glistening fine, crystal clear, the former it is called ‘fake jade’, there is a beautiful name of the crystal as jade; the second is a light green flash yellow, this glaze ‘shadow green’ porcelain is the most large number. In addition, the “shadow green” glaze there is a kind of painting around the body of the brown color, people called “point color”. Song spot color location random, natural, often small area, color has a very obvious difference between thick and thin, the center of the thickest, was iron spot color.