Chapter 630 Feng Shou Pot
Zhou Zhi specializes in porcelain and calligraphy and painting. There is no calligraphy and painting here, so only porcelain is left.
But Mr. Ma eats more miscellaneous things than he does, and keeps the same copper, enamel, jade, and porcelain, but Mr. Qiao would rather follow Mr. Ma and gain more knowledge, so Zhou Zhi and the two of them soon separated. .
Appreciating, appraising, comparing with the inscriptions on the signs, and experiencing the experience along the way, this feeling is just like writing an article, it is very comfortable.
As I walked, when I passed an object, the comfortable feeling disappeared.
The artifact was right next to the wildflowers sent by Shudu Gongmei. The sign read "Ming Dynasty Imitation Tang Dynasty Tricolor Phoenix Head Holding Pot", and underneath there was a line of small words "Gan Province Cultural Relics Headquarters".
The Phoenix Head Pot and the Skin Pot are two very unique entities in the history of Chinese porcelain.
Although the leather bag pot is made of porcelain, it faithfully restores the leather bag commonly used by nomadic people. The shape is full of exotic style. It is divided into two types: handled and handleless. The handled one has the handle at the top, and the handleless one has the top. There will be two upright ornaments with round holes for threading knotted leather cords.
The Phoenix Head Pot was also influenced by countries in the Western Regions. Its shape and decoration were mainly derived from the metalware used by the Persian Sasanian and Sogdian people. After arriving in the Middle Earth, some evolutions gradually occurred.
This is a kind of porcelain with a very peculiar shape. It has a large circle foot and a deep concave shape, as straight as an upside-down bowl. This alone shows that it is influenced by foreign bronze wares.
On the circle foot is a hanging pear-shaped bottle belly, which starts to narrow like a pear and becomes the mouth of the bottle.
Kneading, iron molding, carving and other techniques will be used to create a vivid phoenix head at the mouth of the bottle. The phoenix crown forms the mouth of the bottle for filling water, and the downward curved phoenix mouth serves as the opening for the water to flow out. The phoenix head will have a There are two long feather decorations with beautiful lines connected to the body of the pot, which can also be used as handles while being decorated.
Such a unique shape was directly called "Hu Ping" by the Tang people, and it appeared in many poems.
Soon this shape was absorbed by the civilization of the Central Plains and spread widely, and then merged with another pot type in the Han Dynasty - the "Tianji Pot" to form a new shape.
The phoenix head of the Hu Ping is at the mouth of the bottle. The overall shape is still a thin-necked bottle, but the mouth of the bottle is shaped into a phoenix head.
The Tianji pot is a serious pot shape. The water inlet and outlet are independent of the pot body. They are far apart. It is more similar to the familiar teapot shape of later generations, except that the spout is processed into the shape of a chicken head. .
The combination of the two forms a new phoenix-mouth pot shape.
The third shape is combined with the long-mouth straight pot of the Song Dynasty, and a slender mouth for holding the pot is introduced on the ventral side of the original phoenix-mouth pot.
There is also the simplest one. The bottle neck adopts the shape of the string pattern bottle from the Song Dynasty. There are some concave ring patterns on the long neck to facilitate grasping by hand, and the handle of the pot is eliminated.
Each of the four styles has its own inheritance, combination and era of prosperity.
The things sent by the Gan Province Cultural Relics Store in front of Zhou Zhi were a bit weird.
Zhou Zhi stared at the pot and studied it for a long time, and finally came to the conclusion that there was something wrong with this thing.
The location of this thing is not as good as the wildflowers I brought. It was leaning against the wall and in the corner. I looked around carefully, and before anyone noticed it, I directly raised the curtains behind the booth and put it away. Cover the phoenix head pot, and then The foster brother not far away waved and whispered: "Foster brother, foster brother!"
Master Qiao came over: "What?"
"Did you see that young lady over there? The one in the white suit.”
"Yes, I saw it."
"Go and ask her to come over, don't alert others."
Lin Wanqiu is a little emotional now. She now seriously doubts that Old Lin opened this company and held this event. purpose of the auction.
She doesn’t have any principle of having a superior place of residence, but does Lao Lin want to choose a son-in-law in the mainland? No matter what, there are always some half-grown ones approaching.
These people are full of the strong temperament of the nouveau riche or the second generation of the nouveau riche, which makes Lin Wanqiu appear conceited and despise them in her heart. Hey, the one blocking my way now is pretty good...
"Sister Lin, my foster brother wants to tell you something, please come over."
"My foster brother? Who is it? Who are you?"
Master Qiao didn't say much and just pointed towards Zhou Zhi.
Lin Wanqiu looked over there and saw that it was the young man who asked her to arrange wildflowers not long ago. But when she looked again, the auction items sent from Gan Province beside the young man were actually covered by curtains. No need to ask. It must have been him.
Gan Province is an important province for antique shops, especially in the porcelain category, because the famous Jingde is located there.
What if this offends our colleagues in Gan Province!
Quickly walked to the young man and asked in a low voice: "Are you a kid from Shudu? What are you doing?"
"Sister Lin, I think this three-color There is something wrong with the Feng Shou Pot.”
< br>"What?" Lin Wanqiu was startled at first, and then laughed: "You said, what's the problem? Gan Province Cultural Relics General Store, but that... state-owned unit at the same level as your Gongmei. ”
After saying this, I didn't feel a little blushed, because saying this was a bit like admitting that I was incompetent. Seeing the other person's intention of randomly buying goods, I quickly explained: "The fly wing pattern on the lower part of the Phoenix Head Pot, the sesame slices, and the two ends are upturned. Do you see clearly? Can this be faked? "
Tang Sancai is not porcelain, it can only be regarded as glazed pottery, and it is not only available in the Tang Dynasty, but also has Song Sancai, Liao Sancai, and Ming Sancai. Cai, Qing Sancai.
Every era has its own characteristics, but if there are very small openings on the glaze, that is, the fly wing pattern in the jargon, and even smaller "small sesame slices", if there are tiny openings, There is an upturned feeling at both ends of the piece, which is a unique feature of Tang Sancai, and there is no record of successful imitation of this feature.
“I admit, these cannot be faked.” Zhou Zhi nodded.
"Then you still say there is something wrong with suspicion?" Lin Wanqiu felt that she had calmed down the little kid in front of her, and stretched out her hand to open the curtain: "Get out of the way. If you make trouble again, ask the security guard to kick you out. .”
After saying this, I suddenly remembered that this child seemed to have an unusual relationship with Mr. Wang. He had been sitting next to Mr. Wang just now. The two of them seemed to be chatting in a relaxed and intimate manner. He couldn't help but slow down his tone: "What, over there? There are drinks and pastries. My sister will take you over to have some..."
"The above part you "Have you checked it?"
"What's the upper part?"
"Feng Shou Pot, you've checked the opening characteristics of the bottom. I guess you won't miss the Feng Shou part. Where's the neck? Have you checked it?"
"This..." Lin Wanqiu stopped holding the curtain.
"The shape of the Fengshou teapot, no matter whether it is new or old, or whether it is made of three colors at that time, the smooth lines of the vertical pear shape will not change, right? But the belly of this teapot, when viewed from the front, is obviously a little tighter in the upper part. The feeling of ending too quickly, Sister Lin, just give me a Did you notice at all?”
Lin Wanqiu’s heart was pounding. This matter must be blamed on Lao Lin. The pot from Gan Province was delivered only half an hour earlier than Zhou Zhi’s Huajian, and it was not given at all. Give yourself as much time as you need to take a closer look.
“You, what do you want to do?”
Lin Wanqiu heard countless dark stories in this industry when she was a child. Her mother said that she heard them all from her father, which made her Yearning for this mysterious and exciting industry, when he grew up, he studied Oriental Art and Philosophy at a foreign university, and then joined an auction house.
After Lao Lin found out, he also opened an auction company in China and invited her to come over.
Lin Wanqiu could not refuse this temptation, and finally set foot on the mainland of her motherland with the consent of her mother and Anke.
I didn’t expect that things in China were completely different from those in Hong Kong, which made Lin Wanqiu very distressed.
(End of this chapter)