Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 611 Purple Ding
The body and head of the little white rabbit form an S shape, which is a state of turning its head and looking back. With the addition of ears, feet, eyes and beard, the outline is vivid and vivid with a few simple strokes.

This kind of brush strokes is drawn by painters who don't know how to draw tens of thousands of patterns, and quickly sketched them out under the extremely skilled muscle memory. And casualness is not as proficient and light as the predecessors, so it is often sluggish and rigid.

"Lao Kang's early days." Ma Wei said with a smile: "It's really good to pick up leaks with elbows. This is eating and bringing bags..."

After finishing speaking, he turned the pen holder: "There must be more than 200 characters, and the calligraphy is not bad... In the old world, there must be a sage king and then a sage minister. Therefore, the tiger roars and the wind blows, the dragon rises and the cloud rises, and the cricket sings in autumn , Mayflies come out with Yin. "Yi" said: "The flying dragon is in the sky, and it is beneficial to see the adults." "Poetry" said: "Sihuang toast, born in this kingdom."... Elbow, do you know what this article is?"

"It was only after seeing this article that I wanted to start more," Zhou Zhi said: "The second half of the excerpt from "Ode to the Holy Lord's Worthy Minister" written by Wang Bao of the Western Han Dynasty, although it is a monogram of a folk kiln, the content is an official kiln. The content is interesting, right?"

"Indeed, there were no official kilns in the early days of Kangxi. From all aspects, this pen holder should at least have the title of 'quasi-official kiln'. It is a very characteristic object in the transition period." Ma Wei nodded: " Elbow is fine, isn’t this article unpopular?”

"Actually, it's not too unpopular." Zhou Zhi said: "There is an excerpt of this article in "Selected Works of Zhaoming". Since the Song Dynasty, "Selected Works of Zhaoming" has been a must-read book for scholars. '. It's just that more people know about "Guwen Guanzhi" now."

"Elbow..." Master Ma sighed when he heard this.

"What's the matter, Mr. Ma?"

"It's nothing, it's just that I think my master must be able to talk to you..."

The two of them walked and chatted all the way, their eyes scanning the stalls around them following the headlights.

As they walked, the headlight beams of the two fell on a bottle at the same time.

The bottle body of this bottle is soft and well-proportioned, giving people a simple arc beauty. The bottle mouth is narrow, the neck is short and the shoulders are wide, the body of the bottle is gradually retracted, and the bottom is slightly outward.

In addition to the typical sloping shoulders, long belly, and ring feet, the mouth of the bottle is not the most common flat mouth of this type. Viewed from the side, it appears as a trapezoid. In jargon, this small mouth is called "mushroom mouth".

Plum vase, elegant and elegant, is a typical representative of Song Dynasty porcelain advocating simplicity.

However, the glaze color of this bottle is not elegant at all. The overall glaze is covered with sauce-colored glaze, and the appearance is yellowish. It is obviously a piece of porcelain, but it gives people a feeling of bronze.

After the two beams of light converged briefly on the bottle, they moved away tacitly and swept onto other porcelain.

The seller of the bottle is an old man, wearing a blue shirt, a red vest inside, calf-nosed pants and cloth shoes underneath, with a sad look on his face: "Two old customers, what are you looking for? Make a price."

Zhou Zhi is not old, but he is called a regular customer. The so-called bargaining is actually the way of trading in this business in the old days, which is to put your sleeves together and use your fingers to negotiate the price in private, otherwise outsiders will know.

Although they are talking about the price directly now, the old man still uses the jargon of the old season, which can only show that this person has been in this industry for a long time.

There was nothing he could do when he met such a veteran, Zhou Zhi pondered for a while, and directly brought the sauce-colored plum vase in front of him, turned on the flashlight and began to observe carefully.

On the other side, Mr. Ma was not idle either, and also took care of him with a flashlight.

This pattern is also secretly engraved on the plum bottle. The body of the vessel is divided into five layers with string patterns, and the grass leaf pattern is shaved around the mouth; The exaggerated technique expresses 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 hangs down, so that the white fetal bone is exposed.

This was a shortcoming caused by the firing process at that time. The ability of the porcelain body to fix the glaze was weak, and the glaze surface would melt and flow under high temperature, and would gradually condense after the fire ceased. The glaze color of the final fired porcelain would be similar to that of the Ru kiln, an official kiln of the same period. Generally, there is no glass-like bright light like the porcelain of later generations, the glaze color is full of jade-like luster, the luster is subtle, and there is a simple and simple beauty.

The art of the Song Dynasty focused on "rhythm" and pursued simplicity and elegance. This is the charm of "preparing all good things while keeping a low profile, walking in simplicity and indifference, yet possessing profound and infinite flavors".

Because it is a flowing thin glaze, it is extremely difficult to control the firing process. It is extremely difficult to control the kiln change to achieve a pure glaze color, a uniform body, and a smooth and beautiful effect.

Therefore, this kind of porcelain was very rare at that time, and it was even rarer to survive. It usually appeared in small dishes and bowls.

Porcelain such as bottles and cans are extremely rare in the world.

This is a large piece with a height of more than 30 centimeters. The exact name should be called the Northern Song Ding Kiln Purple Gold Glaze Dark Engraved Tang Grass Pattern Big Plum Vase.

Similar plum vases are currently known, and only one is in the collection of the David David Foundation in the United Kingdom. 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 craftsmanship, it is obviously not as good as the current one, because this one has a beautiful arabesque flower bonus.

After inspecting it back and forth, the bottle was relatively large, but it was still perfectly preserved, which made Zhou Zhi seriously suspect that it had only just been unearthed.

But it’s useless to think about it now. Ziding’s preciousness can be explained by two things. The first is the Song Dynasty’s "Knowledge Records" records. The plum vase was discovered by Renzong, who accused Concubine Zhang of being greedy for money and profit, and broke the red plum vase.

The minister gave the red-glazed porcelain of the Ding kiln to Concubine Zhang, which shows that the red-glazed porcelain of the Ding kiln was very valuable in the Song Dynasty.

The bright red red porcelain was created and fired successfully by the Jun kiln in the Song Dynasty. Before that, the ancients said that the red and purple on the porcelain actually referred to the sauce glaze color in front of them.

The second thing is that Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty was fond of collecting ancient porcelain. He collected a lot of porcelain from famous Song Dynasty kilns with all his efforts, but he could not find sauce glazed porcelain from Ding Kiln of Song Dynasty.

Even emperors and supreme beings could not receive a piece of porcelain. It can be seen that Ziding was already extremely rare in the Qing Dynasty.

So get it right now.

Now Zhou Zhi just hates that the sun won't jump out of the horizon immediately, it's too bad to see porcelain under the lamp.

The old farmer on the opposite side didn't talk much, nor was he in a hurry, he just quietly watched Zhou Zhi and Ma Ye inspecting the utensils.

Weigh the weight, look at the glaze color, check the air bubble shrinkage, look at the bottom tire, check the white bottom, iron, flint red, check the inside of the utensil, check the tire repair process, and then check whether there is another line, trachoma, bump...

Zhou Zhi even used his nails to roughly scrape the key parts of the plum vase to check whether it had been patched.

It was finally judged to be true.

(End of this chapter)