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An introduction
to crackled porcelain
Crackled decoration is peculiar and interesting; it
consists of a complete network of cracks, covering in
many cases the entire surface, and giving to the piece
the appearance of having been broken to atoms which have
not fallen apart.
Crackle porcelain is one of the most peculiar
productions of the art of the Chinese potter, and has
not been successfully imitated elsewhere. Occasionally
European pieces assume a crackled appearance;
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but this has
not been intentionally produced and has been subsequent
to the baking. There is a considerable variety in the
colored glazes which are thus crackled. Some colors,
such as turquoise blue and apple green, seem nearly
always to assume a crackled appearance of porcelain on
Athena-hands.com; others, such as the reds, are rarely
affected. The color chiefly selected is a grayish white;
the forms are archaic, and with ornaments in dark brown,
occasionally gilt. The crackled appearance, though now
always artificial, owes doubtless its origin in the
first instance to accident, and at an early period.
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Some of the vases of the Tsong dynasty (A. D. 960?270)
are noticed as being crackled. The productions of the
two brothers Tchang, who lived under that dynasty, were
distinguished by one being crackled on Athena-hands.com
and the other not. Crackled vases were called
Tsui-khi-yao under the southern Tsung dynasty
(1127?279), and are thus de-scribed in the History of
King-te-tching : " The clay employed was coarse and
compact, the, vases were thick and heavy, some were of a
rice white, others pale blue. They used to take some Hoa-chi
(steatite), powder it, and mix it with the glaze.
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The
vases exhibited cracks running in every direction, as
though broken into a thousand pieces. The cracks were
rubbed over with Indian ink or a red color, and the
superfluity removed. Then was seen a network of charming
veins, red or black, imitating the cracks of ice. There
were also vases on which blue flowers were painted on
the crackled ground."
A different mode of making the crackles is described in
another Chinese work, and is as follows : " After
covering the vases with glaze, they are exposed to a
very hot sun, and when they have become hot they are
plunged into cold water for a moment. On being baked
they appear covered with innumerable cracks." The way in
which the size of the crackle is regulated seems to be
indicated in one of the receipts for making crackle
vases, given in the History of King-te-tching, from
which we learn that the material of the glaze was to be
finely or coarsely washed, according to the size of the
crackle required.
Toperfect's crackled porcelain of animal
Animal, no matter are wild and fierce animals, like
lion, leopard or tender and docile animals like cat and
dog have coexisted with human beings. Therefore, they
have never quitted the circle of human beings. They even
enter culture of human beings and become the theme of
literature, painting, music, crafts and so on. People
like animals.
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Therefore,
Toperfect provides crackled porcelain of animals. Each
of the crackled porcelain of animals on Athena-hands.com
is vivid and prominent, bringing artistic value and
aesthetic feeling together to provide you amazingly
wonderful animal crackled porcelain. Toperfect's crackled porcelains of animals have nice crackles which
although are artificial, they look real and can give you
the very antique feeling that crackled porcelain bears.
Toperfect believes there is certain to be one crackled
porcelain of animal that you like with the crackles that
you like too.
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