Celadon is a ceramic Chinese, using a glaze green or blue-gray translucent. Celadon is particularly popular in Asia because it provides the color of jade, stone sacred.
Celadon is invented by the Chinese potters of the region of Yue in the second century, but already around 1250 BC. BC, the firings of some Chinese potters were able to reach the 1200 degrees, which at this temperature for producing the glass material, where the hot ashes of wood or plant fell on surfaces pushing, and showing an impermeable, translucent and shiny. It is these qualities, which methodically exploited by the ingenious artisans Chinese allowed to gradually get varying shades of brown to yellow green.
From the eleventh century BC, are made jars and jars, which the bill is close to the ritual bronzes, to accompany the dead in their graves. These archaic slightly ocher sandstone, vitrified show many stripes. This new technique was refined by the artisans of Zhejiang Province, and over time, the surface was created with dry wood ashes, or a mixture of wet ash and clay and then sprinkled through a sieve later a mixture of ash and clay liquid was spread using a brush. The experience of potters, also enabled them to realize that the kilns were the most effective length, and built on a hillside, using clay brick refractory, they were called "dragon kilns" .
In the eighth, the coating is perfect, and Yue potters are particularly renowned for their tea bowls whose colors produced are consistent with those of the preferred beverage of Chinese scholars, who compare them to "green clouds captured in a swirl of ice. " Thanks to the scholars, their production up to enter the imperial court.
The Golden Age of celadon, will spread the Xth century in the fourteenth century, driven in China by the Song Dynasty and Yuan. Manufactured parts will increasingly be used to benefit only pleasure of contemplation, color up to pale green, silvery, almost transparent. Chinese craftsmen reproduced ancient bronzes for which they give up the tan for a green creamy powder that magnifies their masterpieces is the famous color now associated with the word celadon.
Today celadon is used very frequently in Chinese artifacts. Quality varies greatly depending on the artisans and the price ...
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