"Family Collection" continues to pay attention to the special program "Follow the Cultural Relics to See the Past and the Present". The Jiangxi Provincial Museum and the Fujian Provincial Museum sponsored the "Dehua Kiln White Porcelain Exhibition" is on display, and today we see two pieces of incense burners fired in the Dehua kiln of the Ming Dynasty.
This palm-sized incense burner, set off by white porcelain, looks particularly delicate, and the wooden lid and base, as well as the coral stone buttons, make it even more elegant.
Surprisingly, the lid and base of the incense burner were added during the Republic of China, and there was no sense of disobedience when matched with the body of the incense burner, but they were integrated and complemented each other.
Judging from the incense burner itself, its firing process is also very unusual, and it is divided into two parts. Yang Zhong, a librarian of the Jiangxi Provincial Museum, introduced that the upper part of the incense burner mainly uses the printing process, which is a more classic decorative process of the Dehua kiln in the Ming Dynasty. After firing the body, the pattern is printed on it by using a stamp or a mold, mainly including the typical patterns of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, such as the dragon pattern, the cloud thunder pattern and the gluttonous pattern.
Speaking of the difficulty of firing, we have to mention the foot of the incense burner, because the body of the incense burner has a certain weight after it is done, and the feet of these two incense burners are very slender, and they are all pinched out by hand by craftsmen.
Yang Zhong introduced that it is not easy to pinch the furnace by hand, not only to consider factors such as dry and humidity, modeling and decoration, but also to consider the balance of the four-legged support of the incense burner. It can be said that if you want to fire such an incense burner well, you must be comprehensive.