Jianshui pottery pays attention to meticulous work, especially to decoration. It takes calligraphy and painting seal cutting and colored clay inlay as the main means, and integrates decorative arts such as calligraphy and painting, epigraphy, seal cutting and inlay.
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The traditional Jianshui pottery kiln is called Dragon Kiln, which is generally built vertically and horizontally from low to high along the mountain, with a fire door at the bottom and a horseshoe-shaped section below the upper ring. The sintering temperature of Jianshui purple pottery is generally above 65438 0000 degrees Celsius. Due to the different content of color elements in the ceramic body, the change of kiln gas at high temperature makes the pottery appear unexpected colors and patterns in the firing process, forming an unexpected "kiln change".
Because the clay is not as fine as sand, it can be finely polished, and the "glaze-free polishing" effect of pottery is obtained. High temperature baking makes pottery as hard as iron. A good purple pottery must go through seven or eight processes and use different abrasives to complete it. Burning skin is the first polishing process, which needs to be polished with coarse sand. It is not advisable to use too much force, and it is hopeless to strain the ceramic surface.
Subsequently, fine sand is used to uniformly remove the wire drawing left by coarse sand polishing. The third step is to polish the surface of the green body with oilstone, and then polish it with pebbles found locally for many times until it is finely ground with the grindstone collected by the grinder. Finally, wipe the pottery with grease.
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