A kind of pottery that appears late, but is quite popular, many people in the country and abroad preferred, wearing a unique face in the ceramic art of Vietnam, that is Bien Hoa pottery.
Bien Hoa pottery was born in the early twentieth century and achieved achievements in international fairs since 1925. Bien Hoa pottery is very diversified in products, designs and decorations. It is produced from Bien Hoa (Dong Nai), later many other streams in Song Be also produced. In this article, we only learn the art of decoration.
Special impression from decorative lines
Bien Hoa potters are very attentive to the decorative patterns on their ceramic products. Many times the same shape, but decorated with many different patterns and colors, creating new beauty, new attraction for the product. This is also a characteristic of decoration in industrial production. Bien Hoa ceramics make a distinctive impression that is easily recognizable mainly by the decorative style, which is the relationship between the trimmings, the colors and the content of the patterns.
Bien Hoa ceramic products are basically decorated with patterns from engraving, or submergence in combination with glazed glaze – light color is quite bright colors, eye catching. Patterns are made of subtle resemblance to that of traditional terracotta pottery, which is a sharp, slender but continuous pattern that is richly curved to create various motifs. If the pattern on the terracotta pottery is shown by the combination sink as negative, on the Bien Hoa pottery between the two sinking new pattern is full picture is considered as positive. It is also different from the “raft” on the brown flower pottery Ly – Tran, although both are porous porcelain pottery. With their own characteristics, the decorative designs are usually composed quite full of dotted lines, only the strokes have created the most decorative array on the product.
The decorations on the pottery started off with patterned motifs, and then were enameled – colored or perforated, the backgrounds of which were as delicate as the envelopes. The subtlety and enhancement of color use on these small arrays. The use of strokes gives the visitor a sense of sophistication, although in practice potters with a skilled profession draw very quickly and precisely in a form prepared from the mold. , Or dam the sample, print the sample on the carpentry from the front.
Patterns made of stripe have increased its contrast with the slippery part that makes them respectable, especially in large products. Small products are sometimes decorated with patterns throughout the body of the product, and the contrast of the product or the brightness of the skeleton with the glaze of the pattern, even though using a color still gives us a beautiful feeling. ; In fact, Bien Hoa ceramics only use strokes and enamel colors have given us many products with high art, that is the vase painted the theme “flower”, “dancer” …
Another popular decorating method commonly used on Bien Hoa ceramics is “perforation”. The perforated feature is to create bold spots as the background for the pattern as in the elephant decor, the lamp stand, the vase … In the case of lampshades, the punctured plates are the background light for dark patterns when the side light In, or make room for light shimmering out. Bien Hoa ceramics almost never try to create patterns with holes such as some Chinese ceramics often apply.
In terms of color, Bien Hoa ceramics also have their own characteristics not the same as brown flower pottery, blue ceramic or porcelain. First of all, there is no distinction between glaze and color, because the enamel on Bien Hoa ceramics is also a pattern on pattern, which is a combination of enamel and pattern in a formula, Text is defined lines, the same is the enamel on the product, not painted and enameled under the enamel of blue ceramic and firing twice to have bright patterns on the porcelain.
The temperature of 1,100 ° C – 1,200 ° C has allowed enamel on Bien Hoa ceramics to be very rich in pattern and color. We know that, if fired higher in the form of white clay or porcelain, these colors are hard to survive. The specific characteristics of Bien Hoa ceramic colors are also the characteristics of porcelain fire porcelain fire by the control technology.
Because it is enamel and color combination, the color is not only bright but also its clarity and depth due to its thickness, which is close to that of celadon. There was a period, Bien Hoa ceramics imported enamel – the color of foreign dressed themselves, so the color is very bright and stable. Abuse of the color palette also results in some ceramic products becoming too flashy and too abundant as showpieces, not the need of art. And because the color glaze is refined well so lose the sense of calm, deep pottery enamel potent strength. However, many products by their use of color, or very few colors, have given us real ceramic products that are highly artistic. It is usually the case of using black glaze on the texture of brown soil, brown enamel on the ground gold, or using only graphics Vietnam pottery manufacturer (s)
Vietnam Ceramics Factory 