How to judge the good or bad of ceramic cups?
1. Methods of porcelain identificationTo buy Porcelain, there is a "four character formula", that is, "see", "listen", "compare" and "try""."See" is to carefully observe the inside and outside of the porcelain. A porcelain glaze is smooth lubrication, scratches, holes, spots and bubbles; two shape is neat, there is no deformation; three see picture lossless missing; four see the bottom is flat, shall be placed smoothly, without burr."Listen" is the sound of listening to the soft tapping of porcelain. If the sound crisp, sweet, then the detailed compact, no dehiscence at high temperature, when firing the porcelain completely. Such as voice dumb, you can determine the body there is crack, or the porcelain is not complete, this kind of porcelain by hot and cold changes, easy to crack.Comparison is comparison. Pairs of porcelain, to compare the various parts, to see whether the shape and decoration of the picture is in harmony. Especially in a set of blue and white or blue and white porcelain blue and white color, because when the sintering temperature varies, so the same color is blue and white, with a shallow depth, a set of complete cold porcelain part and dozens of pieces, such as various pieces of blue and white color have obvious difference, this set of porcelain are much smaller."Test" is test cover, test installation and test. Some porcelain with a lid, and some porcelain by a combination of several components, in the selection of porcelain, do not forget to try to cover the lid, the components try to assemble to see if it is appropriate. In addition, some porcelain with special functions, such as automatic drip drip Guanyin, Kowloon; fair cup, pour the wine into a position, will be leaked. So try it and see if it works properly.
3, art ceramics purchaseChina's furnishings art ceramics, pottery and porcelain are divided into two categories. The main origin of Tao: known as the teapot and pot pottery - Jiangsu Yixing; Guangdong Shiwan pottery figure and animal shape is good; and in the production of pottery production in Henan Luoyang; Shanxi Hunyuan black glazed pottery; pottery production carved Sichuan Rongchang. The main origin of porcelain: in the production of blue and white, delicate, pastel colored glaze, the four traditional porcelains of Jiangxi porcelain Jingdezhen; known for its colorful Youxia decorative art porcelain in Hunan and Liling; the production and innovation of glaze porcelain carving art Shandong Zibo and ivory porcelain glaze production; Hebei Handan; the production of white porcelain Fujian Dehua; Zhejiang Longquan celadon production and production; color glaze porcelain flower of Guangdong Chaozhou; production imitation art porcelain Zhejiang Xiaoshan kiln etc..Furnishings art porcelain as a commodity, the price is not the higher the better, it needs to be seriously identified. For example, under glaze and the blue and white porcelain, to see whether the skilled painting work, clear whether Yingrun color, transparent, note the people aesthetic bogus Youxia, genuine; Youxia style decorative meticulous attention, must be hand drawn, not printing, decals, and colors to light.Again is to see the overall effect, whether Zhou Zheng, there is no deformation, glazed surface is smooth, and whether the color of the same. Finally, the choice of furnishings, art ceramics, in the light of the day where the light is often out of error. The porcelain can be gently percussion, listen to whether the sound loud and clear, the presence of cracks in the ceramic is hoarse.
