She is the "beauty" in the eyes of Kangxi and Qianlong, and she never regrets dressing her!

At that time, Emperor Qianlong once said, "You can't go without tea for a day"

Out of the royal family's preference and catering to the court's extravagant and luxurious fashion, the purple clay teapot is becoming more and more gorgeous, and the art of decorating the teapot with poetry and painting is emphasized, thereby enhancing the literary beauty of the teapot itself, and the craftsmanship is becoming more and more refined.

In the development process of the purple clay teapot, from the original "plain face and pure heart" which was mainly practical, to the "Mansheng teapot" where many literati like to inscribe on the purple clay teapot and participate in the design of the pot shape, there has been a A purple clay pot with colorful hanging glaze.

△ Hua Fengxiang's "Colorful Chinese Fang Pot"

There are different opinions on when the coloring of purple clay pots began. But from the point of view of the handed down purple sand utensils, Hua Fengxiang's "Cai Cai Han Fang Hu" is the earliest.

Hua Fengxiang was born in the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, according to the research of Mr. Guo Baochang: "This kind of colored utensils started after the 20th year of Kangxi (1682), when Zang Yingxuan supervised the manufacture, the color, painting and style of the utensils were well-made by the Emperor Kangxi, with copper tires. The method of enamelware is quite expected to be from the West, so it is named enamel color", so the colored purple sand ware should have been started in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty.

△Yongzheng Qing Dynasty "Painted Flowers and Birds with a Cap and a Big Pot"

During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the purple clay pots decorated with clay paintings and colored paintings were deeply loved by the court and had a very high artistic achievement. For example, the "Printed Tea Cooking Pot" from the Palace Museum in Beijing, the "Square Pot" from the Shanghai Museum, and the "Chen Hanwen Hexagonal Pot" from the Rifle Museum of Art in the United States are all stamped, stamped, engraved, pottery sculptures, clay paintings, etc. It is a kind of comprehensive decoration method, which is delicate, labor-consuming and time-consuming, and is covered with the whole pot, which is very typical of the gorgeous style of the Qing Dynasty.

The decoration of the colored and glazed purple clay pot is mainly in traditional style, with a wide range of themes and various forms. The calligraphy, poetry and painting are concentrated on the purple sand utensils, so that they are perfectly combined with the art of purple sand.

Zisha pottery with "Yixing Zisha pot" as the main body began in the Northern Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. During the development of the pottery capital culture, the literati and scholars of the past dynasties, the famous officials and scholars involved in the pottery garden of China, pushed the aesthetic and cultural connotation of the Zisha teapot to the elegant art shop again and again, and brought it into the broad and profound Chinese civilization.

△Jingxi Ling Wanxing's "Painted Landscape Pattern Hexagonal General Pot"

The Qing Dynasty in China was an era of pursuing artistic perfection, and the artistic aesthetics of this era were also imprinted on the purple clay pot. At this time, there appeared purple clay pots with colorful decorations, which were rich and gorgeous, and reproduced the fine and dense decorative features of the Qing Dynasty. At the same time, the art of purple clay pots has always maintained the coexistence of clear elegance and rich and luxurious style, which has continued to this day.

△ "Blue Painted Heling Pot" in the early Qing Dynasty

The colored purple sand ware has different characteristics in different periods. From the late Kangxi period to the Yongzheng period, the purple sand colored enamel was mostly used to draw patterns and flower patterns, filled with yellow, red and blue colors. The colors were strong and the brushwork was stable.

From the late Yongzheng to the Qianlong period, the Kangxi style was first adopted, and then the patterned flower decoration was changed to the description of painting. Landscape, bamboo, stone, and feathers were all used. No background color was used. , it is more common to see Jindi consecrated and golden wares full of color.

From the late Qianlong period to the Jiaqing period, some of them had the style of Yongzheng, and some were influenced by Western paintings. Except for landscapes, flowers, and feathers, the pavilions in the boundary paintings and the figures in the dyed paintings were all new themes. The brushwork in these works is weak and delicate, lacking in energy, and mostly decorated with pastels, which loses the original neatness.

△ Qing Dynasty "Hua Fengxiang" Zisha Painted Square Pot

After the Daoguang period, most of the purple sand wares were stippling, that is, they did not use ground color, and various color materials were used to depict decorative patterns on the sand pot. The firing process is divided into two steps: the first step is to burn the sand tire into a purple sand vessel at high temperature (1100-1200°C), and the second step is to add color and glaze to the purple sand vessel for a second low temperature (700°C). -800°C) refired.

At the "China Guardian Auction" in 2010, there was a Qing Yongzheng "Purple Clay and Pastel Painted Golden Flower and Bird Pattern Hat Pot", which was estimated at 400,000 to 500,000 yuan, and the transaction price reached 896,000 yuan. The mud of this pot is fine and moist, the color is dark brown, it is strong and strong, and the bearing is extraordinary. The body of the tall pot has smooth shoulder folds, rounded circles, and a cap-shaped lid with a wide and thick edge, which is closely connected with the high-neck pot. The pot is thick and upturned, and the mouth is wide.

△Yongzheng Qing Dynasty "Purple Clay and Pastel Painted Gold Flower and Bird Pattern Cap Pot"

Transaction price: 896,000 yuan

With the increasing attention of Zisha teapots in the Qing Dynasty and gradually becoming a tribute, the princes and nobles customized Zisha teapots one after another. Therefore, during this period, many Zhais, Halls, Xuans and No.s appeared, which were stamped on teapots, such as Tanranzhai, Pianyuzhai, Yuzhai, etc. Dezhai, Yizhai, Chunshuitang, Qinghetang, Shenghetang, Qingdetang, Deyuexuan, etc. However, most of the ones seen in the current auction market are imitations from the Republic of China, and the craftsmanship can no longer be compared with the same day, so the price is not very expensive.

In the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Ou Ziming (Feichun) created and fired a monochromatic glaze that imitated Jun porcelain. In the early days, most of the "Yijun" products were large utensils such as jars. Ge Mingxiang and Ge Yuanxiang inherited the traditional craftsmanship of Ou Ziming in the Qing Dynasty and made Yijun products. The addition of color to purple sand ware was influenced by Jingdezhen pastel porcelain and enamel color. After adding color, the purple clay pot declined by the end of the Qing Dynasty, but as a member of the purple clay family, its glorious history is always worth remembering...