This porcelain, Xiao Zhang likes it very much.

Originally, Xiao Zhang was also used as one of the references in firing Ru porcelain.

Originally, when Xiao Zhang's Ru porcelain competition was fired, the first Ru porcelain work fired by Xiao Zhang was a holding pot.

And this porcelain work is also a holding pot, Xiao Zhang chose another holding pot among the two holding pots, because the dragon plate lotus holding pot is more convenient for Xiao Zhang to operate the inside of the pot.

And the liking of this piece is entirely because of the appearance of the liking!

This is a dragon-handled elephant head holding pot!

A half-length dragon serves as the handle of the pot, and the dragon head bites the lid of the pot...... The elephant's head serves as a spout, and the elephant's raised nose hole serves as a water outlet......

Mighty and domineering, very spectacular and shocking!

The style of this pot is very domineering, and there are many porcelain types that have been fired.

The more famous is a white glazed dragon handle elephant head pot, fired in Xiangzhou kiln in Anyang, unearthed in 1959 in the tomb of Zhang Sheng in Anyang City, Henan Province, and is now stored in the Henan Museum.

The pot is 15 cm high, with a small tubular mouth, flat top surface, which seems to be a cover, and the lid is connected with the body as a whole, which can not be separated and cannot be used.

Thin neck, plump shoulders, a dragon climbs on the spout and shoulders, the dragon's mouth is covered, and the dragon's back is arched high to become a hand.

The symmetrical position is decorated with a pot flow in the shape of an elephant's head, with elephant ears like a fan, a nose like a cylinder, an open mouth, two long tusks emerging from the mouth, two round eyes, and a long nose raised.

The shoulders are also decorated with pairs of double mud strip arches for a total of eight.

Bulging abdomen, lower abdomen obliquely retracted, pie-shaped foot outward. The additional decoration of the body of the pot is complicated, the shape is peculiar, and it is very imaginative.

The overall glaze of the utensils is white, the glaze is light blue or yellowish in the white, the glaze is smooth, the glaze is not applied to the end, the feet are exposed, and the fetus is slightly coarse.

The white-glazed dragon handle elephant head pot was unearthed in the tomb of Zhang Sheng, and the owner of the tomb Zhang Sheng was the general of the Sui Dynasty and the doctor of Zhongsan.

The tomb has the epitaph of the 15th year of the emperor, which can be used as the basis for judging the dynasty, and it is one of the outstanding achievements of the development of white porcelain in the north of the Sui Dynasty in China.

In addition to this classic pot is this type, celadon also has the shape of this dragon handle elephant head pot, and Xingyao also has a very famous type of this pot!

This kind of holding pot can be said to be very famous!

What is a pot?

Holding pots, also known as "note" and "note pot", wine utensils appeared in the Sui Dynasty.

In the early Tang Dynasty, the device has a handicap, a short neck, a drum belly, a cylindrical or hexagonal short direct current, a crank, a short body, a drum belly, and a false ring foot.

In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, it was popular in large numbers, basically replacing the chicken head pot and the phoenix head pot.

During this period, there are many styles of holding pots, there are several kinds of short streams, long streams, cranks, straight handles, etc., the body of the five dynasties to the Northern Song Dynasty is gradually higher, the whole body is more than 46 melon ridges, the flow gradually tends to be slender and slightly curved, the crank is higher than the mouth of the pot, the flat bottom becomes a circle foot and there are many bowls to match, the yuan vessel is mostly a jade pot spring bottle type, the bend flow and the neck of the pot are connected with S-shaped ornaments, after the Ming and Qing dynasties, the shape increases, and is mostly used as a tea set.

During the Tang and Song dynasties, Yue kiln, Changsha kiln, Yaozhou kiln, Jingdezhen kiln, Fanchang kiln, magnetic stove kiln and so on were fired in large quantities.

During the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, there were many blue and white ware fired in Jingdezhen, and Longquan kiln also produced some blue glaze products.

The original shape of the holding pot was derived from bronze, and the shape of this holding pot has been completed in the celadon of the early Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Later, in the Tang and Song dynasties, it was a kind of wine utensils in gold and silverware, which is easy to see from the paintings of the Tang and Song dynasties.

Until now, there are still Song Dynasty Qingbai porcelain pots handed down.

In the early celadon of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, this kind of pot shape has been completed.

The blue and white pot of the Ming Dynasty adopts the advantages of the shape of the gold and silver pot, which is stable, beautiful and flexible.

Because of the relationship between the porcelain material and the blue and white painting, the blue and white pot appears delicate and elegant, just like the carved lacquer 'Xianzhan bottle' of the same shape in the Ming Dynasty, which can evoke a dreamy feeling.

The body of the pot takes the shape of a bottle.

If you omit the lid, handle and spout, it is a beautiful vase.

This vase has a small mouth, a long neck, a shaved shoulder, a heavy abdomen, a short and shrunken soles, and a circle of feet like a jade pot spring-style vase, with the center of gravity of the bottle in the lower half and a calm shape.

Other accessories were added to give this beautiful bottle-shaped object the function of a pot.

The design of the spout is very fluent in the use of lines, and in terms of shape, it is an arc that is obliquely picked up, extending from one end of the body to the space, slightly parabolic shape.

The tip of the spout is kept at a large distance from the body, forming an acute angle of about 30.

At the same time, the tip is microscopic, which increases the feeling of natural fluttering and avoids the shortcomings of abrupt and dull weight.

The handle on the other side of the body of the pot is like a colored knot, slippery and tactfully attached to the body of the pot.

Some of the pots are still shaping the two ends of the hands into a ruyi-shaped pattern, indicating that it is not rigidly connected to the body of the pot, but from the application, and take into account the aesthetic requirements of a kind of cooperation.

At the same time, the relationship between the spout and the body is also adjusted symmetrically, so that it is balanced left and right, impartial, and the center of gravity is appropriate.

The secondary part of the attachment is the cloud-shaped holder with the lid attached between the spout and the neck, and the foot under the body......

The bottom foot supports the body of the pot to make its main part more obvious, and a cloud-shaped support that plays the role of connecting is arranged dexterously and appropriately.

It is symmetrical with the handle, filling the gap between the upper part of the spout and the body, stabilizing the spout that is slanted upwards, changing the lonely and thin situation of the spout, and at the same time increasing the beauty of the decoration.

And because the spout is slender, this trim can also prevent the spout from deforming during firing.

And this three-dimensional pattern, this kind of space art is completely subordinated to the needs of use, not simply for the pursuit of decorative beauty.

To sum up, it can be said that the beauty of this pot has been determined by many dynasties!

There is no one attached to the pot is the most beautiful vase, and the dragon handle elephant head pot is to add a dragon and an elephant to the beautiful vase, which can be described as powerful and domineering!

This pot, which has been circulated for many years in history and has been loved by major kilns, has naturally been fired by Tang Sancai......

Basically, it is the most complex and domineering pot that Xiao Zhang can imagine!

At least it's much more delicate and domineering than Tang Xinghe's 10,000-year-old pot!

Coupled with Xiao Zhang's fantastic glaze, it adds to the mystery of this pot!

Xiao Zhang has now begun to look forward to the final state of this Tang Sancai dragon handle elephant holding pot.

Because this is definitely a piece that makes people feel shocked at a glance and can't forget it!

A breathtaking charm that will last a lifetime at first glance!

This Tang Sancai dragon handle elephant head holding pot, absolutely owned.

Xiao Zhang's first Tang Sancai is going to fire this work!

Although Xiao Zhang was a little unbearable to come up with such a high-end operation in the first piece, he couldn't help it......

After getting used to burning all kinds of tall and delicate porcelain works of Ru porcelain...... Let Xiao Zhang burn those ordinary jars and bowls...... It doesn't show Xiao Zhang's strength at all......

Xiao Zhang can't help it...... Is it because you are too good?

Start!