If it is said that the Ru porcelain works fired by modern people can be taken by Xiao Zhang at a glance, and say a shock!

Then it is enough to prove that this Ru porcelain work has reached the extreme in a certain aspect!

At least in the modern Ru porcelain works, whether it is the works of these masters, or the Ru porcelain works seen in the major Ru porcelain markets.

From the capital to Ruzhou...... Even now Xiao Zhang is participating in this national ceramic joint exhibition!

Hundreds of Ru porcelain works from all over the country are gathered here!

Xiao Zhang also watched it for a long time, and there was such a work that made Xiao Zhang sigh!

The previous Xiao Zhang may have praised Chen Nanshan's creative Ru porcelain works in Jingdezhen, or he may have taken some inspiration from Wang Mingwei's Hundred Flowers in Bloom.

But today, Xiao Zhang stared at this Ru porcelain work at a glance and was shocked by its exquisite modeling characteristics and exquisite overall structure.

This is an aromatherapy burner......

That's right, it belongs to the same type of Ru porcelain as the Ru porcelain works that Xiao Zhang fired in Ruzhou before and won the golden cup.

It's just that the shape of this aromatherapy burner is more complex, more distinctive, and even more delicate than the one fired before Xiao Zhang.

It may not be as extreme as Xiao Zhang's Ru porcelain in terms of glaze color, but in other aspects, this Ru porcelain work is really called the pinnacle.

This is a piece of Ru porcelain azure glazed porcelain lion cover smoker......

This is how the name of the work in this exhibition case is written, signed below, and the creator is called Cao Jiuge.

How to describe this Ru porcelain smoker!

The overall height reaches 39 cm......

Among them, this porcelain lion shape occupies 50% of the whole!

That's right, this Ru porcelain work is more like a lion standing on top of this smoker.

Ru porcelain lion has sharp teeth, sharp eyes, and the overall shape is very powerful!

Xiao Zhang can be said to know this lion aromatherapy furnace very well!

Because the prototype of this Ru porcelain just last year caused a sensation in the entire Ru porcelain circle!

Although Xiao Zhang was still an apprentice of a cultural relics repairer at that time, he had no opportunity to touch these Ru porcelain, but he had more or less heard the news!

Unexpectedly, today I can see someone perfectly copying this porcelain lion smoker.

And from the point of view of appearance, it can be said that it is the same as the previous original.

During the Song Dynasty, this beast-shaped incense burner was very popular, and there are even many documents!

The famous female lyricist Li Qingzhao's "Drunken Flower Yin" once had the phrase "The mist is thick and the clouds are sorrowful for eternity, and the brain eliminates the gold beast", which depicts a metallic beast-shaped smoker.

It is also recorded that in the twenty-first year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhang Jun, who was one of the four generals of Zhongxing in the Southern Song Dynasty with Yue Fei, gave Emperor Gaozong 16 pieces of Ru kiln, and there was a "pair of incense".

There is even a celadon incense burner from the Goryeo Dynasty around the 12th century, which is in the collection of the National Museum of Korea.

During the reign of Emperor Xuanhe of the Song Dynasty, Xu Jing was ordered to send an envoy to Goryeo, and in his "Xuanhe Envoy to Goryeo", it was mentioned that Goryeo celadon had a "fragrant incense", which was associated with the "Ruzhou New Kiln".

"It is fragrant, and it is also colorful. There is a squatting beast on the top, and there is a lotus inheritance below. ”

Later, such a lion-shaped fragrance was imitated by the Korean people.

This "Xuanhe Feng Envoy Goryeo Picture Sutra" depicts this piece of incense, and it is also colorful. There is a squatting beast on the top, and there is Yang Lian Chengzhi on the bottom, and the shape of this Ru porcelain is the original of this Ru kiln porcelain lion cover smoker that caused a sensation in the entire collecting world last year.

In addition to the porcelain lion lion cover, the smoker under the lid is a lotus-shaped base.

With the introduction of Buddhism, a large number of lotus flowers are used as decorative patterns, and lotus flowers in full bloom can be seen everywhere on the throne of Buddha statues, utensils and pagodas.

Therefore, this piece of Ru porcelain can be said to complement each other.

And this Ru porcelain work still has a lot of legendary stories.

In the Palace Museum in the capital at the earliest, there is a very famous painting.

Xiao Zhang and his teacher Tang Qingchuan had seen this painting together.

This painting is the Northern Song Dynasty painter Li Gonglin's "Vimo Teaching".

In this painting, a smoker is placed on the table in front of Vimalaya's couch.

The smoker in this painting is almost identical to the porcelain lion lid smoker, from the lion shape and the lotus seat are exactly the same.

This is a sentence, the ancients did not deceive me!

Because before the advent of this relatively complete porcelain lion lid smoker, it is recognized that there are only about 60 pieces of Ru porcelain in the world, and most of them are bottles, jars, bowls and plates.

I've never seen such a complex beast-shaped smoker.

Even in some ancient kiln sites, only some fragments have been unearthed.

Through the splicing of the pieces, the experts can only tell that this is the base of a lotus flower!

But what is on the base of this lotus flower?

A Buddha statue, an artifact, or a three-dimensional sculpture?

What if it's a Buddha statue? The curve of the lotus leaf at the bottom is particularly vivid, but under the idol used for spiritual worship, the seriousness of the idol will be dissolved.

What if it is a warm bowl? During the Song and Song dynasties, there were many brackets decorated with lotus flowers, and holding them firmly is the most basic design requirement for this kind of utensils.

So it's clear that this doesn't match.

It wasn't until the appearance of this porcelain lion lid smoker, superimposed with the seal of the painting, that the previous experts understood.

On top of this lotus seat is a lion with a nimble shape.

If there is a dynamic lion on this rosette, a cigarette spitting out of the lion's mouth matches the curve of the base!

That's right, this is also one of the highlights of this Ru porcelain.

The incense burner fired by Xiao Chang is the smoke of incense wafting from the cracks of the hollow lines......

And this strangely shaped porcelain lion lid smoker burns incense in the stove...... And then the smoke did come out of the mouth of the lion on the lid!

It's a godsend!

It's an ingenious idea!

The inside of the lion's body is hollow, and a hole is dug from under the lion's butt...... All the way to the lion's mouth......

The smoke will be able to float out of the lion's mouth all the way down the hole......

The ancients have to admire the gods......

It's just a pity that the original of this porcelain lion cover smoker has some cracks...... Some of them are not perfect......

But at least so far it is the only one of the animal type that can be seen in the complete form of the smoker Ru porcelain work!

At that time, it was said that if this was intact Ru porcelain...... Worth more than a billion or even two billion!

Even this original product with cracks and exposed tires was estimated at a whopping HK$60 million last year!

It's enough to witness the brilliance of this work!

And what Xiao Zhang saw today is the perfect high imitation of this work!

It can even be said to be a perfect one-to-one firing!

How can this not amaze Xiao Zhang?

How can you not let Xiao Zhang be shocked!