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Red Copper (Ox Blood)

copper red glazes, are for me the most beautiful and certainly the most difficult to master. These were developed during the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644), during the flowering period, ( after overcoming occupation throughout China by Genghis Khan, Great Khan of the Mongols, who came to take up the capital in 1211, without taking the whole of China, because the gains to the west and Persia. But if he did his grandson Kublai Khan in 1280.

This invasion was the most catastrophic of all China suffered in its long history.

Beyond this period known as the Yuan (1280 - 1368), under the Mongol yoke, there is the Ming Dynasty. ) will reach the maximum development of the porcelain, as evidenced by the works that came to our days achieved a technical breakthrough in the glazes, and a master skill in decorative compositions.

As I said earlier in this period were developed by reducing red copper oxide, achieved a rich variety of shades from pale pink (peach blossom) the intense, saturated red (ox blood).

glazes are to be baked in a reducing atmosphere, and I think this is the most important point to success with these covers. It is necessary to have an oven that allows us to control the oxidation and reduction, the latter has to occur evenly throughout the oven if we are to achieve a steady red across the surface of the pieces, otherwise prove Flambé .