Guan kiln

"Official Porcelain" is a specific term, referring to the porcelain made in the official kilns set up in Bianliang during the Daguan and Zhenghe years of the Song Dynasty, whose tire color is iron black, glaze color is pinkish-green, and "Purple Mouth and Iron Feet" add to the beauty of ancient simplicity and elegance. "Purple mouth and iron foot" refers to the celadon tire material in the iron content of up to 3.5% -5%, resulting in the products of the mouth edge of the glaze at the thin place of gray or gray-purple, and the bottom end of the scraping glaze at the exposed tire was black-brown or dark gray.

Today we call the official kiln refers to the official government fired porcelain. In fact, history only refers to the Southern Song Dynasty porcelain. Southern Song official kiln porcelain inherited from the Northern Song Dynasty style, neat and symmetrical, palace atmosphere, elegant atmosphere, meticulous. Because of the very high iron content of the soil, feel heavy, the soil was dark black brown, later called "purple mouth iron foot". The glaze is heavy and bright, thick as a pile of fat, warm and moist as jade. Glaze multi-layer repeated fine scraping, glaze light sinking but not blinding, texture layout rules and chiaroscuro, modeling solemn and generous. In addition, the "flesh rot stay bone" (exposed tire like dead people's bones, commonly known as "bone antique") was also made at that time.