Chapter 1422 Priceless Treasure
Despite this, Zhou Zhi only felt grateful in his heart. If nothing else, Anzhai informed Zhou Zhi in advance of the Fujiwara family’s intention to sell six hand scrolls. This was already a huge favor.
Although Anzhai Eiichi was very happy to see Zhou Zhi today, he was suffering from an old illness after all. He was very tired after talking so much. The personal secretary and the hospital nurse had been in and out several times, and in the end he simply stood at the door and refused to leave. , kept rolling his eyes at Zhou Zhi, reminding him that the visiting time had passed and that he should be conscious of his behavior.
"Then make arrangements as soon as possible." Eiichi Anzhai said: "Then ask the secretary to take you to Sakamoto, and wait for the arrival of the artwork for a few days, just in time for appraisal."
" Yes, I will start immediately." Zhou Zhi bowed to An Zhaiying: "Thank you very much, sir, and please take care of yourself."
After exiting the Anzhai ward, Zhou Zhi immediately picked up the mobile phone and dialed a number: "Master Ma, come to live, come to live!"
Azaka Eiichi's collection is stored at the Osaka Municipal Oriental Ceramic Art Museum In addition to the part that has been donated, Anzhai’s remaining collection also has a dedicated art warehouse here.
Coming here, Zhou Zhi is like a mouse falling into a rice vat.
The Osaka Municipal Museum of Oriental Ceramics was established in 1982. In addition to the more than a thousand pieces of Chinese and Korean porcelain collected by Eiichi Anzhai, there are also Korean ceramics collected by another collector Li Bingchang, as well as many works by Shoji Hamada, Persian pottery, snuff bottles, etc. donated by various circles, which eventually became An important collection of Chinese and Korean porcelain.
Zhou Zhi currently has a large collection of Tang porcelain, Five Dynasties porcelain, and Song porcelain. In addition to the famous top five kiln products, only the Jun kiln porcelain of the Song Dynasty is missing, and there are also a large number of second-class kiln porcelain. Porcelain such as Yaozhou kiln, Xing kiln, Hutian kiln, Dayi kiln, Longchang kiln, Longquan kiln and other fine porcelain.
For example, at famous kiln entrances like Ding Kiln, the careful collection can even be said to be unique in the world. There are white Ding, black Ding, black flower Ding on white background, and even extremely rare purple Ding.
Even for the very rare Jun kiln, he also has imitations of the official kilns of the third and third dynasties of the Qing Dynasty, imitations of the Ming Dynasty, and purple-spotted Jun kiln bowls of the Jin Dynasty, which are very close to the era of the two Song Dynasties.
However, there is one famous kiln mouth of Song Dynasty porcelain that is his shortcoming. Not only does he not collect it, but he has very little contact with it, and that is the Jianzhou kiln.
Jianzhou kiln porcelain is a product of the tea ceremony of the Song Dynasty. The carcass is an iron body made of purple clay. The glaze body is very thick, with a dark background color, mostly black, with various colors distributed on it. Kiln-aged flecks and texture with a metallic sheen.
The tea ceremony in the island country was inherited from the Song Dynasty. The later matcha actually originated from this tea ceremony. The soup color is thick, white and foamy, and full of changes. It was very popular among the scholar-bureaucrats and maids in the Song Dynasty, with foam patterns. The magical changes lead to victory, which is called "tea fighting".
Because the color of tea is light white, it is best to use dark, thick and heat-insulating tea utensils. Building a kiln is the best tea utensil.
According to the "Kuntaiguan Left and Right Accounts" written during the Muromachi Shogunate period in Shimaguni, which is the early to mid-Ming Dynasty in China, "The obsidian-stained jianzhan is a supreme product, worth ten thousand pieces of silk; oil droplets The Ban Jian Zhan is the second most valuable treasure, worth five thousand bolts of silk;" At that time, only those who were already extremely wealthy, such as daimyo and shoguns and other nobles at the top of the pyramid, were eligible to own it.
To date, there are only four top-notch national treasures in the island country. Three of them are obsidian ones, which are stored in Japan's Shijiado, Fujita Museum of Art in Osaka, and Daitokuji Rikoin in Kyoto. The other one is oil Drop, right here.
The so-called obsidian change means that the stripes are mainly hollow circles with colored millimeter-like objects. As the light and angle change, the lamp body shows different colored halos.
It is divided into four layers from the inside to the outside. The innermost is a pattern similar to a snow globe. These patterns are not a whole, but composed of many small silver spots of different sizes loosely gathered together; the other The outside is a base color like black paint, which is like oil spots and is surrounded by blue and white markings, which separate it from the outermost dark glaze base.
Each layer is mixed with crystals that are invisible to the naked eye. When viewed under light, a metallic rainbow luster can be seen, and this luster can also change with the change of angle, just like dynamic starlight. Therefore it is called "Yao Bian".
The Yaobian Tianmu Zhan is extremely precious. How precious is it? It is so precious that apart from the three complete examples in the island country, there is only one fragment in the Hangzhou Museum in the world. Just because the kiln-stained spots on the bottom of the piece were intact, it became an extremely rare specimen in the country, which no one would ever see.
Compared with obsidian, oil droplets refer to countless small golden yellow or silvery gray metallic luster spots evenly distributed on the black base glaze, like boiling oil droplets. Hence the name.
However, the outer layer of the oil drop spots formed is one less layer than the obsidian spots, and the changing area of the crystal glaze starlight is much narrower than the obsidian spot area.
Even so, it is an extremely rare treasure, and the surviving complete oil drop vessels of the Song Dynasty are also extremely rare.
The island country divides important cultural relics into three levels. The first level is called national treasure, the second level is called important cultural property, or important cultural heritage, and the third level is called important artwork.
There are only thirty oil-drop lamps in the world, among which the island country has three famous ones. The only oil-drop lamp that has been designated as a "national treasure" is now in Zhou Zhi's hands.
This treasure does not require any appraisal by Zhou Zhi. Now it does not belong to Eiichi Anzai at all, but is the wealth of Osaka City. However, just because of Anzai’s reputation in the art museum, Zhou Zhi took his VIP card , wanted to take a look at the treasures in the museum. The staff in the museum not only agreed, but also enthusiastically sent the collection to the appraisal room so that he could have a thorough look.
Such an opportunity is so rare. In the Osaka Municipal Museum of Oriental Porcelain, there are three varnished lamps for him to inspect, including one national treasure and two important cultural properties.
Oil drop lamp is actually the name of the island country. In China, this type of jianzhan is called "partridge spot".
Zhou Zhi has only now discovered that the glaze is not only difficult to imitate, but also the fetal bones are very distinctive and almost impossible to imitate.
“My eyes are opened, my eyes are really opened...” It was already late at night, but Zhou Zhi still stayed tirelessly in the appraisal room with excellent conditions, looking at the treasure in his hand with the light and magnifying glass. .
The fetal bone of Jianzhan in the Song Dynasty is so special. The thick glaze is wrapped around the fetal foot of the cup like a small thin coat, and even forms a magma-like accumulation above the fetal foot, but the bottom is The fetal bones are completely exposed.
The fetal bones appear very rough, and the cracks formed over time have made them look like a piece of cracked iron. This is the most iron-like fetal bone that Zhou Zhi has ever seen.
The fetal bones of the Jun kiln are actually also iron-colored, but compared to the cup in my hand, it is obviously on the dry side and not as "smooth" as the cup after it is wrapped in paste.
Similarly, Ding kilns often apply a purple-brown "protective glaze" on the bottom. However, compared with the fetal bones of Jianzhan, it is "oil but not moist" and "floating but not sinking". , cannot have the effect of building a lamp.
This is the great charm of handed down items. They were introduced to the island country from the Song Dynasty and were appreciated, rubbed and maintained by generations of people. They have been passed down to this day thousands of years later. Such objects have the soles of ironware. , in Zhou Zhi's eyes, its beauty is no less than its colorful glaze, which is like oil droplets.
The blessing of thousands of hands has created this priceless treasure that cannot be imitated.
(End of this chapter)