Since ancient times, porcelain has been an important element of our ancient Chinese culture, and it is an object with vitreous glaze or color painting on the outside.
Porcelain Eight Colors: Green Colorant: Iron
Green glaze is the earliest use in the mainland, the longest time, the most widely distributed glaze, until the Tang Dynasty, all occupy half of the porcelain industry. It is characterized by quaint and moisturizing, uniform glaze, firm and delicate enamel, and a rich variety of colors, including pink green, bean green, azure, holly, plum green, etc., which are blooming in all eras.
Black Colorant: Iron
Early porcelain often saw black because of its high iron content, which the ancients could not handle well. However, with the historical evolution and technological progress, black porcelain gradually faded out of the historical stage, and only a small amount of black porcelain became an aesthetic pursuit.
White Colorant: Iron
When the iron content in the glaze is reduced to less than 0.75%, white porcelain is born. But strictly speaking, the white glaze is a colorless transparent glaze, not a white glaze, and the glaze color is white due to the contrast of the white porcelain fetus.
Yellow Colorants: iron, antimony
Yellow has always been the "color of the emperor" in China, first seen in the Tang Dynasty Shouzhou kiln, the Ming and Qing dynasties of yellow glazed porcelain, since the day of birth by the court monopoly, strict regulations, only the emperor has the right to use, it has become a symbol of noble status.
Red Colorants: Copper, Iron, Gold
There are many types of red and red glaze, except for fresh infrared, which has evolved into a variety of different varieties. The deep ones have ruby red, vermilion, chicken blood red, accumulated red, smeared red, etc.
Green Colorant: Copper
Green glaze uses copper as a colorant and lead compound as a co-solvent to produce green porcelain with a more vivid color and a deeper degree than green glaze. As early as the Han Dynasty, it has been widely used, to the Qing Dynasty Kangxi, the low-temperature green glaze ushered in the heyday of firing, there appeared melon peel green, turquoise green, okra green, onion heart green, lake green and many other representative glaze colors.
Violet colorant: manganese
Since the creation of Jingdezhen kiln in the Ming Dynasty, purple glaze has been reflected in people's perspective, because of its difficulty in production, so purple is a rare color in ancient times, "purple gas from the east" is its precious chapter. In the early Ming Dynasty, purple would be more black, and it was not until the Qing Dynasty that standard purple appeared when it was formulated with gold red and cobalt blue, and began to be mass-produced during the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty
Blue Colorants: Cobalt, Copper
Blue glaze first appeared in Tang Sancai, blue glaze with cobalt as a colorant, there are low-temperature blue glaze and high-temperature blue glaze. During the Song Dynasty, real low-temperature blue-glazed porcelain appeared—a malachite green glaze with copper as a colorant.