The Forbidden City Ceramics Museum is located in the Wuying Hall on the West Road of the Forbidden City, and the entire courtyard has been turned into a ceramic exhibition hall. The main hall of Wuying Palace, the apse and the corridor between the two halls are arranged according to the age of ceramic development, from the Cishan pottery of the Neolithic period to the ** ceramics. The side hall has also been set up as a special exhibition hall, which exhibits export porcelain, sacrificial porcelain, Buddhist porcelain, etc., one of which is "inheritance and firing", which exhibits the "Universiade porcelain" of several generations of emperors.
What is Universiade porcelain? The ** forms of porcelain fired by Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Factory for the palace are roughly divided into three types, namely Universiade, Chuanban and tribute. The so-called Dayun porcelain, is a large number of transported porcelain, from the actual firing situation, refers to the imperial kiln factory at the end of each year in the palace of the internal affairs of the office, according to the annual example without the emperor's additional decree, according to the fixed style of firing and unified transport to the capital, delivered to the palace porcelain warehouse for storage porcelain. This type of porcelain was mainly used by the emperor to reward his courtiers in various activities.
The large-scale firing of Dayun porcelain in the Qing Dynasty began in the Kangxi Dynasty, and the real formation of a fixed style and routine firing began in the Qianlong Dynasty. The style, color and pattern of Dayun porcelain are basically fixed, that is, according to the national strength, there are many varieties in the Qianlong Dynasty, and the varieties fired in each dynasty have deteriorated, and only 8 kinds of bottle types are retained at the end of the Qing Dynasty. From Qianlong to Xuantong, these eight kinds of Universiade porcelain were directly fired in the side hall of Wuying Hall for special exhibition.
Yutang spring bottle", created in the Yongzheng Dynasty, belongs to the Qing Palace Universiade porcelain varieties, set to burn over the years. Because its theme pattern is blue and white entwined lotus pattern, meaning "honest and honest", it is often used as a reward porcelain by the emperor, in order to the courtiers for the official integrity, so it is also known as "reward bottle". This kind of blue and white entwined lotus pattern appreciation bottle, the shape is straight and beautiful, the tire quality is white and delicate, the glaze is bright and bright, the blue and white color is bright and bright, and the decoration layout is layered, which is the standard of "appreciating the bottle".
Universiade porcelain, there is no need to do any innovation, several dynasties have been fired and looked almost the same.
The "twins" in porcelain are almost identical.
There are still subtle differences.
The emperor's personality also affects this "form" firing.
Universiade porcelain" is exhibited in the side hall of Wuying Hall.
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