The Art Point of Ceramic Material

Green glaze. Mainly to iron as coloring elements, glaze containing 1%-2.5% of iron, in the high temperature reduction atmosphere roasting, can show cyan. The founding period of primitive celadon was in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, which gradually matured in the Han Dynasty and reached its peak in the Song Dynasty.

Color glaze. In the glaze with metal oxide, after baking there will be a fixed color glaze, and affect the color of the glaze is mainly metal oxide.

White glaze. The iron content in the white glaze is reduced to less than 0.75, which is applied to a white porcelain tire and fired at high temperature to produce white glaze. The earliest white glaze in China was applied to white porcelain unearthed from tombs of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Black glaze. It is also iron as the main element, the glaze contains more than 5% of iron, and it is black when fired at high temperature. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, black glaze had been burned, but it was not pure. From the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the Northern and Southern Dynasties firing black glaze luster, color black as lacquer.