Chapter 1626 The Fourth Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty
At this time, there was a gentle knock on the door. The sound was very special. Zhou Zhi knew that it was the sound of a pipe hitting the door. An Siyuan came to find him. It’s time for dinner.
Zhou Zhi has been running around outside these days, and An Siyuan is quite indulgent to him. He smiles at the packages delivered for signature every day. In the evening, he invites him to have dinner with him and listen to Zhou Zhi talk. A day's gain.
Of course, big guys like him no longer need to go to antique stores to look for things. Big antique dealers come to provide services. Ellsworth has a very homely personality. He seems to enjoy his life in the apartment very much. In his own words, there is no place in the world where there are as many treasures as there were in central Shaanxi, China a few decades ago, and it is worth his trouble.
However, looking at Zhou Zhi's joy in shopping in New York City these days, it seems that he has the same demeanor as when he was young and full of energy.
Therefore, coming to listen to Zhou Zhi talk about the process every day, and also bragging about it, became a rare pleasure for the whole family at night.
Zhou Zhi opened the door, held the wine glass with two fingers, opened his fingers and said, "Sir, you see, today's harvest is not ordinary."
The relaxed and kind smile on Ellsworth's face He became incredibly serious: "Is this Chenghua Grape Purple?"
The bulk of An Siyuan's porcelain collection is Yaozhou kiln celadon, but this does not mean that he has not researched and collected other porcelains, such as the Yuezhou kiln and Ding kiln of the Song Dynasty, the Longquan kiln of the Ming Dynasty, and the blue and white porcelain of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. I have a collection of underglaze red porcelain and other porcelains, and they actively circulate them, making a lot of money.
However, Chenghua porcelain is too precious, especially the Chenghua cup with purple color. When Ellsworth entered the ranks of antiques, it was basically an owned item that had been passed down in an orderly manner. Collectors Unless there are special circumstances, it will generally not be transferred. Once it appears, it will immediately arouse pursuit. Even a big collector like Ellsworth may not be able to acquire it.
Therefore, even great people like Ellsworth have only seen the Chenghua Grape Cup in museums.
"How about eating in my room tonight?" Zhou Zhi was in a good mood today: "I spent about a hundred dollars to buy a box at the airport today, and I just started counting it."
"Oh, you lucky CurlyCoat." Ellsworth exclaimed. Obviously he also knew the allusion to the airport customs auction house: "Who is the red hat now? Little Bonnie?"
"Bonnie is Bonnie, but he has nothing to do with Xiao." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "He is a tall and fat fat man. By the way, we also have a photo, a Polaroid photo."
"When I met him, he was a little sea lion. He was full of energy. His biggest dream was to inherit my grandfather's red hat one day." An Siyuan glanced at the photo: "Now...my God, he is just like a walrus."
"It seems that the circle in New York State is not very big." Zhou Zhi was a bit dumbfounded: "Why do you all seem to know each other?"
"We will talk about this later, let's see things first." Ellsworth waved his hand to Zhou Zhi. Let’s take a look at what he gained today.
While Ellsworth was admiring the Chenghua grape glass, Zhou Zhi began to open the rest of the "blind boxes."
The small box is actually full of cups. In addition to the horseshoe cup just now, there are also goblets, cylinder cups, bell cups, lotus seed cups, skimming cups, and hat cups...
As for painting colors, in addition to Chenghua doucai, there are also later pastels, five colors, and enamel colors.
In addition to the Chenghua grape cup, there are also cups from the Xuan, Jia, and Wan dynasties, namely the Xuande doucai flower and butterfly pattern cup, the Jiaqing doucai character cup, and the Wanli blue and white multicolored baby play pattern cup. The cups of the Ming Dynasty were actually imitated by the next three generations. The carcass is as thin as a cicada's wing, the blue and white hair is rich, and the colors are a combination of shades. Because the space available for creation is very limited, the paintings are relatively simple, and they are all flowers and plants." "The leaves have no side turns", the characters are "single-clothed in all seasons", the faces, eyebrows, eyes and noses are all composed of a single stroke, as thin as a gossamer, and even full of the roughness of a folk kiln.
But the colors are very careful, bright red like blood, apricot yellow with shimmering red, aqua green, leaf green, mountain green is more transparent like watercolor, and purple requires glass The top glaze must not be glossy, otherwise it will be dull. Among them, the ocher purple color is dull, the grape purple color is as transparent as grapes, the oil red color is heavy and bright, and the ginger yellow color is thick but weak.
Each cup will not use all the colors, and of course it will not use too little. Generally, three to four colors will be arranged according to the picture design.
Among the currently known Doucai utensils, Chenghua only uses one or two colors for Doucai rolling leaf pattern bottles, and five or six colors for chicken jar cups. The rest are basically three or four colors. However, peacock blue and malachite green, which were created in the Ming Dynasty, have never appeared on doucai cups.
Small and exquisite, dignified and round, elegant and elegant. Regardless of the carcass, shape, picture, or coloring, the "temperament" of the Ming Dynasty doucai small cup is unified.
This is the highest level of Ming Dynasty porcelain and even ancient porcelain craftsmanship. It has also become a model for many emperors in later generations to pursue, copy and imitate, and to inherit and carry forward.
The four cups are all very impressive individually, but when compared with the four cups together, it can be seen that Chengyao is the best, Xuanyao comes second, and Jiawan is the rest.
The rest of the cups all belong to the third generation of the Qing Dynasty.
“George, it seems that your countrymen have three subdivisions of Doucai porcelain from the Ming and Four Dynasties?”
Just as Zhou Zhi carefully took out a Kangxi enamel cricket gourd cup, An Siyuan looked at four small Ming Dynasty cups and asked.
“This division is actually based on the understanding of “Nanyao Notes”, an important Chinese porcelain book.” Zhou Zhi recalled: “The author of this book is unknown. Some say that the year it was written is Yongzheng, some say Qianlong, no matter Which dynasty? It will make colorful porcelain Or 'blue and white porcelain with five colors', which is divided into three types - multi-color, doucai and filled-color porcelain. "
"These three types of porcelain are actually white with blue and white, and then decorated with five colors on the glaze. , but the book believes that multicolored porcelain refers specifically to the lack of green porcelain As the backbone lines, the status of floral lines is just the same as other colors. Some porcelains even have no green color at all. "
" Various colors are used like watercolor painting. This painting method is quite similar. 'Boneless Flowers' in Chinese Painting The painting method is called Wucai in the book. "
" Doucai means that the blue and white begin to act as lines, but are only expressed as large skeletons, and the colors are dyed near the large skeletons, thus forming the composition of the picture. way.”
"For example, when expressing sleeves, blue and white are only used to express the bottom outline of the sleeves and the folds of the cuffs, while the upper part is filled in with colors, which together form the entire sleeve. This way of combining the two is mathematically combined. It’s called ‘Doucai’.”< br>
“Filling in color is simple, it is similar to the rubbing method of ancient calligraphy - double hook brushwork, similar to gongbi line drawing. The areas that need to be filled with color are first outlined with blue and white, and then in the closed area Filling color material, this method The style is called filling color. "
"But because the number of doucai porcelain is not too many, later scholars thought that these were just differences in painting techniques, so they simply did not subdivide them. , only the presence or absence of the blue and white underglaze color As a distinction, this type of porcelain is divided into five-color porcelain, underglaze red porcelain and doucai porcelain."
"That's it, let's finish eating first."
"Okay."