Chen Chengbo, Assistant Researcher of Porcelain Restoration in the Palace Museum.

(Photo by reporter Ling Meixue)

[Reporter Ling Meixue/Taipei Report] The three damaged porcelain bowls that caused an uproar in the Forbidden City last year were reborn with almost perfect appearance after professional restoration.

The restorer "Chen Chengbo" happened to bump into a well-known senior Taiwanese painter, and asked him if he had any troubles or interesting things about it. He just laughed and said, "I joked that I was from Chiayi."

Chen Chengbo calmly described the restoration of the three porcelain bowls as "just part of the restoration work."

(Photo by reporter Ling Meixue)

Chen Chengbo has been engaged in porcelain restoration in the Forbidden City for about 10 years. He said that he has not counted how many bowls have been restored, but judging from the three damaged porcelain bowls, it is not too complicated or difficult. "To describe.

Due to the high aesthetic and technological value of ceramic cultural relics, preservation and repair personnel use restoration technology to restore their appearance, thereby enhancing the aesthetics and display effect of ceramics; the repaired porcelain bowls have almost no flaws visible to the naked eye, but Chen Chengbo said that carefully Observe, in different light angles, sometimes you can still see some traces.

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Chen Chengbo said that the most common deterioration of ceramics in museums is damage caused by negligence, improper packaging or transportation; for high-temperature porcelain with obvious aesthetic value, it is necessary to consider the actual situation and restore the damaged surface appropriately to meet the basic requirements of museum cultural relics display. Function.

The restoration process of "Shuanglong Small Bowl with Yellow and Green Colors in Kangxi Period of Qing Dynasty".

(Photo by reporter Ling Meixue)

The three pieces of damaged porcelain that have attracted much attention this time are high-temperature porcelains. Due to the high degree of sintering, the temperature falls around 1250 to 1400 ° C. When damaged, the edges of the broken pieces are usually smooth and flat.

After the bonding process is completed, there will be different degrees of defects, which will make the surface gaps easy to be observed. Therefore, after filling with appropriate materials, a full-color treatment is performed on the filled part with acrylic pigments, so that the full-color area can be approximated to The texture of the ceramic glaze surface.

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