登り窯で焼成した備前焼表面に現れる茶褐色および黒色部の微構造と茶褐色の再現

牧 涼介, 彭 沢亮, 福原 実, 草野 圭弘

Bizen stoneware is produced by firing shaped green clay in a firewood kiln at around 1200°C. The brownish and blackish colors that appear on the stoneware surface in a firewood kiln do not appear on stoneware heated in an electric furnace. The brownish color was found to be caused by the formation of single crystalline, branched, dendritic, Al-substituted ε-Fe2O3 particles. Composite particles consisting of Al-substituted ε-Fe2O3 and Fe-substituted spinel solid solution also formed on the stoneware surface. In this study, we successfully prepared brownish samples that were similar in color to Bizen stoneware by annealing at 1200°C for 2 h in air after heating Bizen clay pellets with K2CO3 at 1230°C under a 10 vol% CO and 90 vol% Ar gas mixture in an electric furnace instead of firing in a firewood kiln. Dendritic hematite particles also formed on the reproduced samples. The blackish color on Bizen stoneware fired in a firewood kiln was caused by the formation of augite [(Ca,Mg,Fe)2Si2O6], which was produced by a reaction between the Bizen clay and firewood ash.

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