Recycled Porcelain [Ancient Wears Today]

Although Jiang Xin arranged their house in Fengyao Town well, Xu Jiuzhao still prefers to work in the workshop.He felt it was more atmospheric that way.

Wu Miao was solely responsible for negotiating the Belgian order. For this order, he traveled several times in the two places, and finally returned to Europe with the contract signed by Xu Jiuzhao.

Although Wu Miao said that he put a lot of effort into it, it was the first time he had come into contact with such a large number of designated orders.

He was afraid of making any mistakes, not to mention smashing his own signboard, it would be his fault to affect Xu Jiuzhao's excellent sailing.

However, Xu Jiuzhao was much calmer than he imagined. When Wu Miao was preparing materials for this kind of order, Xu Jiuzhao had already laid down the case.

In fact, Xu Jiuzhao is no stranger to the production and design of foreign porcelain.

From a very early time, domestic porcelain arrived in Europe by land and sea, and was loved by the princes, nobles, and dignitaries there.

During the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, a large amount of porcelain was exported abroad. They have a special vocabulary called export porcelain.

There are many sources of porcelain in foreign countries, all of which are exported porcelain.

Not only in ancient times, even after the establishment of the country in the last century, high-quality export porcelain was produced to earn foreign exchange.

Although the Royal Kiln Factory in Jingdezhen does not produce this kind of porcelain for export, the workshop responsible for the production is under the jurisdiction of the Royal Kiln Factory.

Xu Jiuzhao had never participated in this kind of design before, but he had seen the design sketches from that time.

Of course, firing porcelain is not a process that can be done at will.The real royal tributes have to go through rounds of draft review, and eventually they will even be handed over to the emperor's desk.

Every time the kiln is fired, it means the investment of a large amount of human and material resources, and there is no room for sloppy and waste.

In the past, when Xu Jiuzhao fired, he didn't draw a picture because he had a well-thought-out plan, but this time the order should not be treated so carelessly.

When he was in Shanghai, Xu Jiuzhao drew a lot of drawings in his studio. These drawings were to be seen by the people sent by the Belgian royal family. The other party expressed his satisfaction with the design, so Xu Jiuzhao started to make porcelain bodies. .

Feng Zhongbao was watching from the side while drawing the picture. Xu Jiuzhao was serious and rigorous about his work. Although Feng Zhongbao was scratching his heart and liver curiously, he could only watch silently with his mouth closed.

The design draft in Xu Jiuzhao's hand has undergone three major revisions, and it is perfect and almost impeccable.Xu Jiuzhao was satisfied in his heart, but he was still a little uneasy. He designed it entirely based on his previous experience, and he didn't know if he could satisfy the other party.

Xu Jiuzhao raised his head and moved his stiff neck, stood up and moved his hands and feet.

Feng Zhongbao who was on the side finally couldn't help asking: "Jiu Zhao, this kind of design is really strange, I've never seen it before."

Because what the other party asked was for display porcelain, Xu Jiuzhao completely abandoned the design plan from a practical point of view, and all of them were all kinds of classic bottles, pots, and plates.Each model has a large area for drawing, and some of these patterns are classic dragon and phoenix twining patterns, eight treasure patterns, and various flower patterns.They are exquisite and elegant in design, generous and dignified, noble and classic, even if Master Gao tilted his head and looked at the artwork for a long time, he couldn't come up with any suggestions for improvement.

What surprised Feng Zhongbao was the text on the decorative graphic. These texts were not any domestic fonts, but birdsong that Feng Zhongbao could not understand.

It amazed him.

"Rare and strange!" Master Gao rolled his eyes at him, "Usually I ask you to read more books, but you just don't want to. Look, you're showing timidity at the critical moment!"

Feng Zhongbao patted the back of his head, and said flatteringly to Master Gao, "Do you know what kind of text this is?"

"This is English! But you can't tell it if you use cursive characters." Master Gao was speechless, and couldn't believe Feng Zhongbao's ignorance.

"What?!" Feng Zhongbao was dumbfounded, "The blue and white porcelain is not written in Chinese but in English?"

"That's right." Master Gao said as a matter of course: "Where to sell, of course, you must cater to the buyer's market. This is not uncommon in history. Mongolian in the Yuan Dynasty, and even Arabic in the Ming Dynasty export porcelain. In the early Qing Dynasty Manchu at the time...just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't exist."

Xu Jiuzhao nodded and said: "Yes, the decorative text on the export porcelain should conform to the language of the other party as much as possible."

Master Gao handed the design draft under Xu Jiuzhao to Feng Zhongbao: "Not only the language and characters, but even the pattern of the story map must fit the style of the other party. Learn it hard, today is a lesson for you."

These are a series of sketches on vases and flasks with story pictures. When Feng Zhongbao looked down, his eyes almost popped out in surprise.

These story map patterns are against the style and habits of traditional domestic ceramic patterns, and the painting style on them is actually European classical style!

Some are landscape paintings, some are biblical stories, and some are mythological figures.

Master Gao sighed and said: "From these drawings, I can see how much thought you have put in, Xiao Xu. There is no reason for you not to succeed."

Xu Jiuzhao said modestly: "I'm also picking up people's teeth. The porcelain exported from the Ming and Qing Dynasties used this style of pattern. After all, if you draw some domestic humanistic stories, few foreigners can understand it at once."

Feng Zhongbao was so impressed that he almost knelt down to Xu Jiuzhao.

Xu Jiuzhao's painting skills are quite good. There are no shortcomings in layout composition, line outline, character expression, and story expression.

Although it has been converted into a foreign style of painting, the essence of blue and white porcelain is still there.

Some time before the representative of the Belgian royal family came, Xu Jiuzhao began to prepare the porcelain material and body.

When Jiang Xin came here, he dealt with people from the government all day long, and the two of them could only warm up a little when they returned to their residence at night.

Another month will be Jiang Xin's birthday, Xu Jiuzhao began to worry about what gift to give.

His specialty gift has always been the porcelain he fired.You don't need to spend any more brains, and it's an easy guy who can grab it with your hands.

Those who received this kind of gift from him were almost not dissatisfied, and they all liked it.

However, because of his consistent style, Xu Jiuzhao didn't plan to do this this year.Although it saves trouble, it is actually not distracting at all.

Xu Jiuzhao was thinking while designing a modern ceramic vase.He promised to re-burn Jiang Xin's carefully designed vase to replace the broken one.

Compared with the "Holding a Lotus" made for the first time, the design this time requires a lot of care. It can be said that it is a work that integrates Xu Jiuzhao's learning achievements during this period into Dacheng.

Just in time for the opening of the kiln in the factory, Xu Jiuzhao rushed the sagger into the kiln and added this new work into it.

He is now one of the major shareholders of Yunwen, just rubbing the kiln like this, and still no one jumped out to find uncomfortable obstacles.

Jiang Xin's plan for the reorganization of the rhymes is as follows: Master Gao is in charge of the high imitation porcelain of the classical series, and Feng Zhongbao, who has a bit of Xu Jiuzhao's style, is in charge of the ancient rhyme series. Xu Jiuzhao will serve concurrently for the time being.

The early product design was all done by Xu Jiuzhao, which is okay for a short period of time, but it is not enough to rely on him alone.What's more, Jiang Xin hopes that he will develop on a bigger stage and focus more on improving himself.

One suggestion Jiang Xin gave him was to select a few people from Yunwen for him to use, and to have dual identities as employees of Yunwen and Xu Jiuzhao's studio.

Xu Jiuzhao thinks this is not good, but it is too troublesome for him to train alone or find suitable personnel again.

In early November, Wu Miao brought a foreigner in his forties.

This gentleman has brown hair and blue eyes, wears a suit and tie, he has an elegant demeanor and a haughty and reserved expression.

Wu Miao introduced to Xu Jiuzhao: "This is Lord Terrazzini."

"Hello, Mr. Lord." Xu Jiuzhao offered to extend his hand.

Mr. Lord stretched out his fingers and shook it, showing no enthusiasm.With a straight face, he speaks Chinese fluently: "I hope my visit this time is not in vain."

Feng Zhongbao, who was originally standing aside and watching strangely, was surprised to see a real nobleman, but the attitude of the other party made him lose his goodwill all of a sudden.

The lord did not act arrogantly, but his demeanor and tone were full of distrust.

Wu Miao tilted his shoulders helplessly. It was not the proud Lord Trazzeny who was talking to him at that time, but another one.The one did not have time to come in person, so he sent this one.

Before Lord Terrazzini came, he didn't know Xu Jiuzhao at all, and he had never seen his works.Originally, he was full of doubts about such a little-known ceramic artist as the other party, but seeing Xu Jiuzhao so young and tender, he almost put on his face the suspicion that they used some dirty means to receive this order.

Xu Jiuzhao had met officials and nobles with even more eccentric tempers, and he said neither humble nor overbearing: "I will definitely not disappoint you."

Even Master Gao couldn't help but folded his arms expressionlessly when he saw this person. Wu Miao was relieved that Xu Jiuzhao didn't show any bad emotions.

He gestured a thumbs up to the Lord behind him, and Xu Jiuzhao smiled with the corners of his lips curled up.

Xu Jiuzhao received Wu Miao and the Lord in Yunwen's reception room. After the two parties were seated, Xu Jiuzhao didn't exchange pleasantries, and directly handed the prepared pattern folder to Wu Miao.

"This is the final draft, please have a look at it, Mr. Lord." Xu Jiuzhao looked at the other party confidently and said.

The calmness he showed slightly dispelled some of the uncertainty in Lord Terrazzini's heart, and he calmly opened the folder in front of him.