"Thank you both very much." The old man put the things away and did not ask how much it was worth now. Judging from the appearance, he had no intention of selling it at all: "I finally figured out what this thing is today, and I have learned a lot. Admire, admire. ”
“ There is one thing missing." Zhou Zhi found a piece of paper and traced a pattern on it: "This thing is called a wax dagger. It is used to melt wax and drip it after heating it with a lamp. It looks like a small copper fish with one side. One side is convex and one side is concave. You can pay attention to it. When you encounter the problem of buying and this A matching set."
"I know." The old man put away Zhou Zhi's drawings: "What about Mu Dou's side?"
Zhou Zhi said with a smile, "It's simple here. Generally, you use a scrapped writing brush, choose one of suitable size and cut off the tip. Just cut the pen barrel short. If you are a scholar, there are so many scrap brushes that you don’t need to buy extra brushes.” That’s how it should be.”
When the old man left, Lao Wang smiled at Zhou Zhi and said, "I haven't seen you for a while, but my skill in doing miscellaneous things has also improved."
"Hi! Isn't that the craftsmanship of a paper poster?" Zhou Zhi is also not modest: "If even I don’t even know Wa Dou or Dou Dou, and I don’t even give him a meal!”
After saying that, he sighed: “Actually, this kind of small object is quite exquisite. If the old man is willing to put it at the public auction, I would like it! You can take some pictures, oh , What a pity!”
“It’s not a Qianlong folk kiln.” Lao Wang didn’t think it was a pity: “Why don’t I go back and search for it in the warehouse to see if there are any?”
“No need, no need "Zhou Zhi waved his hand: "Such small things are no longer needed. It would be nice to buy them when you find them, but there is no need to spend time searching for them. I can't afford to waste that time... …”
At the end of the morning, the workmanship appraisal team identified hundreds of items for the citizens. Although Fei Guan's greetings made Zhou Zhiduo suffer, it turned out that he had the least quantity. The other four people each had more than fifty items, but He didn't even reach thirty.
At noon, everyone was having a working meal at a restaurant next to the Cultural Park. Sister Zhao, the only woman in the appraisal team, said: "I see that the elbow appraisal is quite detailed. The citizens like you very much. Such an activity Ah, often from now on Come and participate to prove that we have successors to the collection collection enterprise in Shu."
"Sister Zhao, you are criticizing me," Zhou Zhinan said with a smile, "I am still inexperienced and just want to be a teacher. Say a few more words and let more people hide treasures. Understand the things in hand, and the time will be wasted unconsciously."
"Actually, we are all similar at the beginning," Mr. Sun said: "Everyone is used to doing detailed work in Gongmei's work style. Really. Contrary to now It took us a long time to get used to it."
Fei Guan finished ordering the dishes and then came over: "Elder, things are being sold in Meishan recently. Let's go over there sometime and go shopping. House hunting? ”
"What?" Zhou Zhi's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that the sunken ship at Jiangkou was discovered? "Shouldn't it be Pengshan?"
"Why is it Pengshan?" Fei Guan was inexplicable: "Meishan is Sansu, the hometown of Yu Shinan, has been a big port since the Song Dynasty. Some things are very normal. Recently, several old houses there have produced some sustenance from the third generation of the Qing Dynasty. Xuande style blue and white porcelain bowls, as well as blank period flowerpots and so on."
"It seems that Xiuzi is very interested in blank period porcelain?" Lao Wang said, "I saved our craftsmanship a few years ago. The blue and white ones are all packed, am I remembering correctly?”
“In fact, it’s not just the blank period, including Chongzhen.” Zhou Zhi nodded. The so-called blank period refers to a special period in the history of Ming Dynasty porcelain, namely the three reigns of Zhengtong, Jingtai and Tianshun.
In 1449, the Wa Mongolian invaded the south in a large scale. Zhu Qizhen, the Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, under the instigation of the eunuchs, personally led the expedition. As a result, he was defeated at Tumubao. The army of more than 500,000 people was wiped out and Yingzong was captured.
Amid internal and external troubles, his younger brother Zhu Qiyu ascended the throne as emperor and appointed Yu Qian to preside over the BJ defense war. After victory, he welcomed his brother back the next year.
Seven years later, Zhu Qizhen launched the coup to seize the throne, took back the throne from his younger brother, and changed the reign name to "Tianshun".
In less than 30 years, the imperial power changed, and the country changed its owner several times, resulting in the country's decline, internal and external troubles, economic depression, people's livelihood, and social unrest.
Under such a situation, the production of Jingdezhen porcelain industry was also greatly affected. The level of porcelain production and the quality of porcelain dropped significantly compared with the previous dynasties of Yongle and Xuande.
So far, no matter whether it is unearthed from archaeological excavations, collected in public museums, or found in the antique art market, there are very few porcelains from the Zhengtong, Jingtai, and Tianshun dynasties with clearly dated dates. Therefore, the literary and art circles conclude that " "There were no official kilns in the three generations", so it is called the blank period, also called the "Three Black Generations".
The same is true for Chongzhen porcelain. During the years of war, the quality of porcelain, which represents the standard of living, has dropped again and again. Similarly, there are almost no porcelain with the official kiln mark.
It is precisely because the industry believes that the porcelain fired in the Three Dynasties does not have official kilns, and the blue and white or underglaze red porcelain techniques during this period are indeed not as sophisticated as those in the Yongle and Xuande periods, and the texture is not delicate enough. Therefore, the porcelains of the four generations of Zhengtong, Jingtai, Tianshun and Chongzhen have little status in the collection world.
However, the "Records of Ming Yingzong", "Da Ming Huidian", "History of Ming Dynasty" and other documents that Zhou Zhi has seen actually contain records of porcelain making in official kilns. Therefore, we specially collected the best of these four generations of porcelain.
“Among the four generations of porcelain, leaving aside the Chongzhen blue and white porcelain, the porcelain of the three black generations during the blank period, especially the blue and white and blue and white underglaze red porcelain, is very worthy of study.” Zhou Zhi explained: “The reason is The porcelain of these three generations is no longer as good as the previous generation, almost degraded to the level of the Yuan Dynasty, and a large amount of flint red often appears on the bottom of the vessel. ”
"But it also has its own advantages, that is, the last batch of Su material, the Suma Liqing shipped from the Middle East, was used in these three generations of blue and white porcelain, becoming the final glory of Suma Liqing."< br>
“This is also very similar to the Yuan Dynasty Therefore, if the painting style of Su blue and white porcelain of this period is not carefully identified, it will often be misjudged as Yuan blue and white."
"Relying on these differences between blank period blue and white and Yuan blue and white. I have already cheated on many papers. " At this point, Zhou Zhi smiled like a fox: "In the field of papers, this is also a 'blank period', and there are very few people writing. I write one article after another, and I guess the editor-in-chief is. Whenever I see my name, I will be stunned - why is it him again! "
"Hahahaha..." Everyone laughed. Indeed, there were very few researchers on porcelain during the interregnum. The few here are not in the academic circle and do not need to write papers or anything like that, but this kid uses Got it, you can definitely make up for it in this area!
In fact, with the in-depth study of the blank period and Chongzhen blue and white in later generations, someone finally discovered that these porcelains that have not left the official kiln models are also divided into levels and categories. Some of them are fine blue and white and Tang Dynasty porcelain. Blue and white is actually official kiln porcelain, or it has reached the quality of official kiln.
This discovery led to the blank period and the sudden emergence of Chongzhen blue and white porcelain decades later. However, in this life, Zhou Zhi changed from a hindsight to a discoverer and promoter. However, in this life, he did not know that he had completed Just such a transformation. (End of this chapter)