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The
Evolvement In Modeling Crafts
The modeling methods of purple-clay pottery, since Zhengde
period in Ming Dynasty, has been
becoming more
and more perfect, owing to generations of artists’
exploration and improvement as well as the progress of science
and technology. There are various methods which may be
summarized into: handforming, injecting mud forming, applying
base forming and printing, etc. The handforming base forming,
method, an ancient craft, includes beating pot body and inlaying
pot body.
Beating pot body forming: First cut the ready clay into
pieces in a certain length, width and thickness. Then beat them
into clay slices and strips according to the vessel being made.
Make scratches on the clay to show the width and whirl the
mouth, bottom and body pieces. Stick the body pieces in the
center of the revolving plate, and put the clay piece around the
body pieces to form a clay tube. Then the left hand inside the
round tube, use the right hand, with a thin wood beater, to beat
it into desired shape.
Inlaying body forming is applied to make square vessels.
First cut the clay into square pieces, then beat them into
slices according to the required sizes and make them into sample
pieces. Cut the clay into slices according to the sample and
stick them together with grease clay. The key of hand forming
lies in the appropriateness of the claybase forming and the
polishing of the surface. The accurate polishment may make the
structure more rigid, the contour more proper and the wrinkles
more distinct so as to attain the making requirement of being
round as pearls and smooth as jade and create the effect of a
unified whole.
Injecting mud forming. Widely adopted in recent ceramic
production, it takes advantage of the absorption of the plaster
model. Inject mud into the model, then take off the model, a
hollow claybase is available. |
