Chapter 486 Jiajing Blue and White
After having a midnight snack, Zhou Zhi rushed to give the money first, and then everyone continued their return. At nearly ten o'clock, Zhou Zhi returned home.
When I got home, I carefully started to pack my things, and the next trip was tightly arranged.
I had made an appointment with Manager Fei before to go to the capital, which happened to coincide with the current matter, so a lot of things had to be packed in advance.
I heard from Manager Fei that the "Citizen Auction" in Shudu was very lively. The price of Gongmei's cultural relics was too expensive to attend such an event. After a few events, there were worries about shortages. Manager Fei gave her a thoughtful I got a call and asked him to get some supplies.
Zhou Zhi is now using his own channels, including his fourth cousin in the city, Su Zifeng from his fifth uncle's family in the countryside, and Lao Yangtou from Baimi Township. They are also collecting things, and they have accumulated a lot over the past year.
Zhou Zhi specializes in porcelain, calligraphy and painting, plus miscellaneous cultural items. The remaining jades, bronzes, official kiln wares below Daoguang, folk kiln porcelain below Ming Dynasty, and some modern porcelain plate paintings, Jingdezhen antique Porcelain, small gold and silverware, etc., Zhou Zhi prepared to count a batch and let Manager Fei sell them on his behalf.
There are actually many fine products here, but for Zhou Zhi, they are already in the category of "own it once you see it" and are not worth collecting.
There was only one set of Jiajing blue and white Sanyang Kai Tai Gao bowls. Zhou Zhi was really reluctant to part with them. After admiring them for a long time, he stuffed them back and decided to keep them.
I even secretly made up my mind to create a special category for the Jiajing blue and white collection.
Nowadays, when talking about Ming Qinghua, it must be Yongxuan.
Indeed, Yongxuan blue and white represents the highest peak of Chinese blue and white porcelain culture.
In the Jiajing Dynasty, the national power declined greatly, and the country could no longer support the firing of official kilns, so it adopted a flexible method and implemented the "official and private firing" system, allowing private kilns to help the government in firing utensils, which became "Limiter".
On the contrary, the east is not bright and the west is bright. This method of operation has leaked some technical secrets that had been held in official kilns to private kilns.
The result is that the technical level of Jiajing folk kilns is rapidly approaching that of official kilns. Some blue and white vessels of folk kilns with exquisite firing techniques have approached or reached the level of official kilns.
This is a huge value depression. Now even the official kiln porcelain after Daoguang was used as a "buy one get one free" "buy one get one free" offer when purchasing the third generation official kiln porcelain a few years ago. The folk kiln porcelain was not on the market. Objects that can be circulated at "citizen auctions" such as Gongmei are extremely cheap.
Even decades later, the value of porcelain from private kilns in the past dynasties is still low. However, with the circulation of porcelain from official kilns becoming less and less, the market is in urgent need of digging out a kind of porcelain for speculation.
First of all, this kind of porcelain must have unexplored value and have a lot of room for appreciation; secondly, it must be of good quality and have high cultural relic value and cultural value; thirdly, it needs to find a way to find similar varieties before. , you can take advantage of the situation.
So someone finally focused their attention on the Ming Jiajing blue and white porcelain that was the closest to the official kiln in the past dynasties.
The market itself has a mixed bag of good and bad. Jiajing blue and white, and light green materials include Beitang blue, Shizi blue, and Huiqing. Because the technical level of the kiln entrance is different, the fired color ranges from black to blue to deep. It ranges from gray to almost emerald blue, or even blue with purple in it.
Therefore, the quality varies greatly, and even the Jiajing official kiln wares are affected by the majority of cheap goods and have low value.
But this period was also a period when the styles and colors of blue and white porcelain changed drastically.
Since the early Ming Dynasty, official kiln porcelain, like society, has begun to become rigid. From shape to pattern, official kiln porcelain has a fixed system, and even the markings on the bottom cannot be arbitrary.
However, the result of this directly made it difficult to imitate official kiln porcelain. In the era when fakes were rampant, it even reached the point where experts were afraid of looking at others and simply "not official, not official kiln" .
In other words, no matter how realistic the imitation of a piece of porcelain is, regardless of the various details of the porcelain body, glaze, bubbles, support pins, as long as the shape is wrong and the pattern is wrong, it is a fake. For example, the appearance of the three-goat kaitai pattern on blue and white porcelain must have occurred after Jiajing, because among the blue and white porcelain before Jiajing, no blue and white porcelain with a sheep theme was used.
Therefore, if you see a Yongle style Sanyang Kaitai blue and white plate in the market, it is a random fabrication by a counterfeiter who has not passed the test. However, in an era when everyone is obsessed with literature and entertainment, hoping to make a fortune by picking up mistakes. , such a clumsy thing can still deceive countless people.
Because of this, Jiajing blue and white porcelain has become the type of blue and white porcelain that most tests the discernment of collectors because of the huge difference in quality and irregular patterns and colors.
Similarly, because the level required for identification is too high and the value cannot match it, today's Jiajing blue and white is undoubtedly the "junk variety" that is most disliked by collectors.
Think about it, except for real hobby researchers like Zhou Zhi, rich people now have endless collections of fine porcelain from official kilns. How can they have the patience to slowly study the authenticity of Jiajing blue and white, between the government and the people? nuances?
Grandma got up to relieve herself, turned on the bedroom light, and came to the door to see Zhou Zhi: "I heard from your mother that my dear grandson has to go out in two days?" The Sutra has been found and will be sent to Shudu University for appraisal.”
“Is it the half of the Dragon Tibetan Sutra given by the Empress Dowager? I have heard of this allusion.”
Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "It's almost the same. Dajing Township is not far from Erli Township. Grandma should have heard this story."
"But your allusion of 'Danfeng crushing Qinglong' is a bit nonsense. How can you influence such a large area in Shu? Just influence Jiachuan. "Grandma obviously knows this allusion: "Is this something worth showing off?"
"I didn't make this up, it's just an old allusion that many people don't know now..." Zhou Zhi couldn't help but froze at this point: "But I'm afraid it will become known to everyone this time..."
"What time is it and the mother-in-law and grandson are still chatting here?" Mom also got up: "Go to bed quickly. If you have anything to do, we'll talk about it when you get up tomorrow."
"Mom, let's talk about " I found the "Dragon Hidden Sutra". It's in my bag now. Do you want to read it? "Hurry up and go to bed. We'll talk about it when you get up tomorrow morning!"
I've slept so well in the mountains these past few days. Zhou Zhi still woke up very early. He simply cooked porridge, then went out to buy steamed buns and came back, and then packed his things.
By the time the family was having breakfast, my mother seemed to have forgotten that Zhou Zhi had the Dragon Tibetan Scripture in her bag: "This time we go to the capital of Shu, Tingting will also go, and Tingting's mother will definitely have to accompany her."
“Are you going for an interview?”
“It’s just an interview. Didn’t you buy a house in Shudu? Can you let the two of you live in it for a while? I heard that it’s quite comfortable to live in a guest house in Shudu. It’s expensive.”
“Well…that house is quite big to clean up, and it’s quite scary for two people to live in…”
“Don’t refuse even if you don’t come! "Although Mom and Guan Ma are often at odds, when it's time to help each other, the two always do their best: "Isn't it just that the house is a little old? What's scary about it?"
"Also, it's up to others to decide whether you want to live there or not. It's up to you to decide whether you want others to live there!"
"I'm telling you, Guan Ma has always been nice to you, Ting. Ting has always regarded you as her brother..."
(End of Chapter)