Study On Imperial Blue And White Porcelain Of The Ming Dynasty In Yongle And Xuande

Chinese blue and white porcelain, fresh tastefully beautiful, represents the Chinese nation to contain the introversion esthetic fashion, and gets the fine reputation by the element of "the country's porcelain". This porcelain created in the Tang Dynasty, but developed prosperously in the Yuan Dynasty, particularly it show present mature blue and white porcelain's fine work in Yuan Dynasty, but regardless of Tang or Yuan Dynasty, both were make based on the folk or overseas each kind of demand, but received the official support and the influence by no means that must served as the special product for the Palace. Along with Ming Dynasty's establishment, in Jingdezhen of blue and white porcelain's main habitat, in fact started to set up and develop official Kiln, and the government had valued this kind of porcelain gradually. In Yongle and Xuande Dynasty along with official Kiln and overseas market's good development, the blue and white porcelain was affected deeply by the western countries and people, and became the main decorative porcelain production in Jingdezhen. This time, the blue and white porcelain got the affirmation of the two Emperor, and began to be use in Palace. Two dynasty's blue and white porcelains are decorated by the import cobalt material with the color to be quite close, moreover, two dynasty's changing time are extremely short, generally speaking, two times'blue and white porcelains'artistic style are consistent basically, but also each characteristic of generation. This kind of blue and white porcelain represents the blue and white porcelain manufacture maximum level, which is a milestone in china history. She is different from Yuan Dynasty with the style of warmness, the late Ming Dynasty with the style of elegance and shoddy, and the gorgeous style in early Qing Dynasty, which manifests the meaningful tastefully beautiful style the fusion of Islam-like foreign land's style and Chinese traditional culture art. This article will try to analyze the background of this blue and white porcelain's producing, from four aspects of the kiln system in Hongwu era, oversea' s factors, Tibetan Buddhism and the early Ming painting; analyze the modeling and ornamentation under the influence of Islamic styles as well as Chinese style decoration style of the inheritance and development. Finally, I will analyze the review of the blue and white porcelain in the Dynasty of Yongle and Xuande with the literature and the imitation of its history and summarize some simpler methods of identification.