Production Techniques Of The Ming Dynasty Blue-and-White Porcelain

Blue and White Porcelain in China and even in the world is a shining pearl, especially the Ming Dynasty Blue and White Porcelain through Zheng He’s voyages exports huge amount Blue and White Porcelains to the world. Meanwhile, it showed Chinese culture to the whole world and had a far-reaching effect on the world porcelain technology and handicraft development.Blue and White Porcelain was founded in the Tang Dynasty, and mature in the Yuan Dynasty, the recession was in Qing Dynasty. There are three peaks in history:in the late of Yuan and early Ming Dynasty, YongleXuande, the end of Ming and beginning of Qing Dynasty separately. Ming Dynasty can be able to across the three Blue and White Porcelain history peaks, it indicated that porcelain technology extremely developed. Till now, Ming Blue and White Porcelains are the most prestigious exhibits listed in any country museums, it totally proved the importance of Ming Blue and White Porcelain in the history.Ming government push the handicraft industry to an important status. They established58imperial kilns, and JingDeZhen rapid developed to be the porcelain center of China and be the world-renowned porcelain capital. It became an achievements and continuous thousands of years’ refulgence the cluster of craftsmen and the source of porcelain exports. After French missionary Mr. Pere Francois Zavier Dentrecolles to take away the Billet System, Glazing and Firing technology to Europe, British, Spanish, Italy and other countries have the emergence of real porcelain. The ancient Egyptian Forsta sites be excavated six or seven hundred thousand potsherd,70%～80%are Chinese porcelain imitation. With Blue and White Porcelains’input, they burnt out modelling and pattern completely similar porcelain imitation. Japanese porcelain craftsmanship industrial development has a close relationship as Ito Goro learnt in JingDeZhen for five years porcelain craftsmanship. Thus, it can be seen Ming Dynasty blue and white porcelain gave a major push on porcelain technology development in the whole world.The thesis, according to the three major stages, the Early Ming Dynasty(HongWu, YongLe, XuanDe), the Mid-Ming Dynasty(ChengHua, HongZhi, ZhengDe) and the End of Ming Dynasty(JiaJing LongQing, WanLi) to be the Blue and White Porcelain manufacturing time line and different periods different characteristics to be a clue and relying on five aspects which are craft process, padding making glazing, modelling features and decorative design scheme to do the comprehensive analysis. The thesis clarified the three important periods of Ming Dynasty Blue and White Porcelain Craftsmanship and grabbed its characteristics of different periods, at the same time, it tried to summarize the "Heavenly Creations" mentioned the seventy-two craftsmanship procedures. There are some important meaning of restore Ming Dynasty Blue and White Porcelain craftsmanship and provide basis appraisal standard of Ming Dynasty Blue and White JingDeZhen Royal Kiln Porcelain and certain appraisal standards direction of future Blue and White Porcelain.