Jingdezhen Kiln in Qing Dynasty

【Jingdezhen Kiln in Qing Dynasty】

Jingdezhen Kiln (with the shortened form of “Town Kiln”) is a kind of kiln with unique style in China’s traditional kilns.

The kiln chamber was built by taking the cross wooden frame. The kiln location takes up about a quarter of the area of the kiln chamber. The space is two-story structure except the space occupied by the kiln chamber. The bottom layer is for loading and opening the kiln. The two-story firewood chamber is mainly for storing pine firewood. The whole roof of the kiln resembles the top of the inside beamless hall, belonging to arch-frame roof made of bricks. The tall chimney is made of single brick, with its convincing building skills. The shape of its firing chamber presents a long oval shape with one large end and one small end. The place close to the kiln entrance is wide and high, but the part close to the chimney becomes gradually narrow and short, so it has the name of “duck-egg shaped kiln”. It has a total length of 15 to 20 meters, with a volume of about 300 cubic meters and the top height of about 6 meters. It takes pine firewood as the fuel (therefore it is also known as “firewood kiln”), and its flame is long with less ash content, besides, it contains no harmful substances, suitable for the restoring flame. It makes good glaze coloring effect for white porcelain, blue and white porcelain, colored glaze, etc. According to the flame flows and temperature distribution of various parts of the kiln, it can also make porcelain bodies with high, medium and low level of firing separately.