Chapter 612 Ziding
The body and head of the little white rabbit form an S shape, which is a state of turning its head and looking back. Add ears, feet, eyes and beard. With a few simple strokes, the outline is vivid and lively.
This kind of brushstrokes was drawn quickly and casually by a painter who had drawn thousands and tens of thousands of patterns with extremely skilled muscle memory. This kind of extremely smooth lines belongs to real kung fu. Generally, later generations of craftsmen are very good at it. It is difficult to imitate, because the speed and randomness of the movements are not as skillful and light as those of the predecessors, so they often become dull and rigid.
"Lao Kang's early days." Ma Weiwei said with a smile: "He is really good at picking up leaks from his elbows. He even eats them with a bag..."
After speaking, he turned the pen holder and said: "More than two hundred This character must be there, the calligraphy is not bad... In the old world, there must be kings with sage knowledge and then there will be sages. Minister of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the tiger roars and the wind blows, the dragon rises and rises in the clouds, the cricket sings in the autumn, and the mayflies come out of the clouds. "The Book of Changes" says: "The flying dragon is in the sky, which is good for seeing adults." Sir, I was born in this kingdom. "... Do you know what this article is?"
"It was only after reading this article that I wanted to start it," Zhou Zhi said: "The second half of the excerpt of "Ode to the Holy Lord's Wise Minister" praised by Wang Bao of the Western Han Dynasty, although it is a monogram from a private kiln, the content is from an official kiln. The content is a bit interesting, right? ”
“Indeed, there were no official kiln utensils in the early Kangxi period. From all aspects, this pen holder should at least be given the title of 'quasi-official kiln'. It is a very distinctive object in the transitional period. ." Ma Wei nodded: "It's okay, but this article is quite unpopular, right?"
"In fact, it's not too unpopular." Zhou Zhi said: "This article was selected in "Selected Works of Zhaoming". Since the Song Dynasty, "Selected Works of Zhaoming" A scholar must At that time, there was even a saying that "The Selected Works" was bad and the scholar was only half-hearted. It's just that more people know about "Gu Wen Guan Zhi" now." Here was a sigh.
“What’s wrong, Mr. Ma?”
"It's nothing, it's just that I think my master will be able to talk to you..."
The two of them just walked and chatted, their eyes following the headlights as they scanned the stalls around them.
While walking, the light poles of their heads fell on a bottle at the same time.
The body of this bottle is soft and symmetrical, giving people a simple arc beauty. The mouth of the bottle is narrow, the neck is short and the shoulders are wide. The body of the bottle gradually shrinks, and the bottom is slightly tilted outward. The shape is beautiful and well-proportioned, tall and straight. beautiful.
In addition to the typical sloping shoulders, long belly, and round feet, the mouth of the bottle is not the most common flat mouth of this type of vessel. Viewed from the side, it appears as a trapezoid. In the jargon, this small mouth is called a "mushroom" mouth".
Plum vase, simple and elegant, is a typical representative of Song Dynasty porcelain's advocating simplicity.
However, the glaze color of this bottle is not elegant at all. The whole bottle is covered with a sauce-colored glaze, and the appearance is yellowish. It is obviously a piece of porcelain, but it gives people the feeling of copper.
After the two beams of light briefly converged on the bottle, they moved away in tacit agreement and scanned other porcelain.
The seller of the bottle is an old man, wearing a blue cloth shirt, a red vest underneath, calf-nosed trousers and cloth shoes, with a sad look on his face: "Two old customers, please What do you like, let’s bargain.”
Zhou Zhi is not old, but he is called a regular customer. The so-called bargaining is actually the transaction method in this industry in the old days, which is to hold it with your sleeves. The fingers negotiate the price in private, otherwise outsiders will know.
Even though we talk about price directly now, the old man still uses jargon from the old times, which only shows that he has been in this industry for a long time.
When encountering such a veteran, there was nothing he could do. Zhou Zhi pondered for a moment, then directly carried the sauce-colored plum vase in front of him, turned on the flashlight and observed it carefully.
On the other side, Mr. Ma was not idle either, taking care of things with a flashlight.
This pattern is also secretly engraved on the plum vase. The body of the vase is divided into five layers with string patterns, and the rim of the mouth is shaved with grass leaf patterns. The shoulders, abdomen and waist are all engraved with Tang grass patterns. The craftsmen deliberately ignored the Tang grass patterns. branches, and use exaggerated techniques to express the softness and stretch of the flowers and leaves. I believe it will be very beautiful during the day.
It can be seen from the mouth of the bottle that the glaze layer is actually very thin, and the bottom body is a white porcelain body. When firing, the glaze flows downward, exposing the white fetal bones. This was a shortcoming caused by the firing process at that time. The glaze fixing ability of the porcelain body was weak. The glaze would melt and flow at high temperatures, and would gradually condense after the fire ceased. The final glaze color of the fired porcelain would be like that of the official Ru kiln of the same period. Generally speaking, there is no glass-like bright luster like that of later porcelain. The glaze color is full of the jade-like luster, the luster is subtle, and it has a kind of honest and simple beauty.
The art of the Song Dynasty valued "rhyme" and pursued simplicity and elegance. This is the charm of "preparing for others' good deeds but concealing their own secrets, walking in simplicity and leisurely, and having a profound and infinite flavor."
Because it is a flowing thin glaze, it is extremely difficult to control during the firing process. It is extremely difficult to control the kiln changes to achieve the effect of pure glaze color, consistent throughout, smooth and beautiful appearance.
Therefore, this type of porcelain was very rare when it was fired, and it is even more rare to survive. It usually appears in the form of small dishes and bowls.
Porcelain such as bottles and jars are extremely rare.
This is a large piece with a height of more than 30 centimeters. The correct name should be the Northern Song Dynasty Ding kiln purple-gold glaze dark-carved Tang grass pattern plum vase.
As far as we know, there is only one similar plum vase in the collection of David Wade Foundation in the UK. That one is even better, with a lid, showing the world the original state of the plum vase as a wine vessel.
However, in terms of artistic and craftsmanship, it is obviously not as good as the current one, because this one has the bonus of beautiful arabic dark flowers.
After looking over it over and over again, I found that this bottle was not only large in size, but also perfectly preserved, which made Zhou Zhi seriously doubt that it had just been unearthed.
But it is useless to think too much about it now. Two things can illustrate the preciousness of Ziding. The first is the "Records of Experiences" of the Song Dynasty. During the reign of Song Renzong, a minister sent her to Concubine Zhang as a gift in order to please the harem. A Ding kiln red porcelain plum vase was discovered by Renzong, who scolded Concubine Zhang for being greedy for money and profit, and broke the red plum vase.
The minister gave the Ding kiln red-glazed porcelain to Zhang Guifei, which shows that the Ding kiln red-glazed porcelain was very valuable in the Song Dynasty.
Bright red porcelain was created and fired by Jun kilns in the Song Dynasty. Before that, the ancients said that the red and purple colors on porcelain actually referred to the glaze color in front of you.
The second thing is that Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty loved to collect ancient porcelain. He devoted all his efforts to collect porcelain from famous kilns of the Song Dynasty, but he could not find the sauce-glazed porcelain from the Ding kiln of the Song Dynasty.
The emperors and supreme emperors could not receive a piece of porcelain, which shows that in the Qing Dynasty, Ziding was already extremely rare.
So it’s serious to win it quickly.
Now Zhou Zhi only wished that the sun would not jump out of the horizon immediately. It was too boring to watch porcelain under the lamp.
The old farmer opposite didn't say much and wasn't in a hurry. He quietly watched Zhou Zhi and Ma Ye inspect the utensils.
Weigh the weight, look at the glaze color, check for air bubbles and shrunk glaze, look at the bottom tire, check the white bottom, iron, flint red, look inside the object, check the tire repair process, and then check whether there is another line or blisters. , bump...
Zhou Zhi even scratched the key parts of the plum vase with his nails to check whether it had been glued or repaired.
Finally judged to be true.
(End of this chapter)