Chapter 452: Sweet White Porcelain
As far as Zhao Tianming knows, there are four Yaobian Jianzhan, which is a national treasure in Japan, and they call it Yaobian Tianmu Tea Bowl, which is very famous even in the world.
Because this kind of Yaobian Tianmu tea bowl has long been lost in China, there are currently only four Song Dynasty Tianmu tea bowls in Japan. However, it is difficult to say whether there are any records among the people.
According to historical records, during the Kamakura period in Japan (the end of the twelfth century to the fourteenth century), Japanese monks who studied in Japan brought back the tea bowl of Mt. Tenmu, and the name Tenmu got its name.
The Song Dynasty Yaobian Tianmu tea bowl has two major characteristics: one is that there are round spots, and the other is that the spots are shining with blue brilliance around them, which is extremely peculiar, and is the "divine product" of internationally recognized porcelain enamel art, and modern potters have not been able to fire it after decades or even generations of efforts.
Yao Chang Tianmu tea bowl is the Southern Song Dynasty heirloom unique product, spread to Japan, the Japanese love this antiquity from China very much, but also feel that the magic of the Yao change pattern inside is unpredictable, so they use the word "bowl universe" to praise the bowl.
To change the pattern of the Tianmu bowl due to the natural kiln change, it is like putting people in the middle of the night by the sea and seeing the brilliant starry sky, and the starry sky is deep in mysteries, like the unknowable vast universe.
It is a pity that after the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, this porcelain-making process was lost, and it has not been able to restore the firing process until now.
The so-called Yao Chang Tianmu tea bowl, in fact, is also Yao Chang Jianzhan, which is a precious utensil for the tea ceremony in the Song Dynasty. After the Ming Dynasty, due to the abolition of matcha by Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, the tea set also lost its support, and only Japanese businessmen were willing to buy it with a lot of money.
As a result, the top-quality tea bowls were sold to Japan and became a precious collection that has been passed down from generation to generation.
In addition to Yaobian Jianzhan, other kinds of Jianzhan are also the beloved of the Japanese, and there are many of them that have been passed down there, and now, there are more Jianzhan in Japan than in China, I have to say, this is an irony.
Moreover, it is still the Japanese who make it famous internationally, and internationally, "Tianmu" has replaced Jianzhan and become the international common name of black glaze ceramics.
It's ridiculous that some people in China now actually call Jianzhan "Tianmu" in turn!
Unlike the Bushido Tea Ceremony, which developed and called itself its own culture after it was passed down, the firing process of the building lamp was also lost in Japan, and they did not have this culture in the first place, but they changed the name and took it for themselves.
Unfortunately, it is extremely difficult to prove it now, and those international institutions will not be easily changed.
"These crooked people have come to rob us of what they don't have because of this virtue. Like those twelve twelve-born beast heads, we can't find them all until now, and we have to spend so much money to buy them back. ”
Xiao Fang is no stranger to this situation, it is often on the news, and every time he sees it, he can't wait to grab it back.
Zhao Tianming was a little undeniable about the twelve pretty beast heads, he always thought that this was hype. At the beginning of the Old Summer Palace, it was just a bronze statue spraying water at the hour, relatively speaking, there were countless things in the Old Summer Palace that were more precious than them, but they did not receive attention and were even more difficult to recover.
Those 12-born beast heads, but the whole world is known and heard, shouting tens of millions of hundreds of millions of dollars to put up for auction at every turn, behind this, there are people who take advantage of our national feelings to carry out malicious commercial speculation.
When this technique was successful, the next step was to replicate it and use it on other Chinese lost cultural relics.
You must know that in the more than 100 years after the Opium War, as many as one million pieces of Chinese cultural relics were lost overseas due to war, looting, and theft, and in all well-known foreign museums, there are more than 1.6 million pieces of Chinese cultural relics in Chinese collections, including other Chinese cultural relics collected by the people, and the total number of Chinese cultural relics scattered overseas is more than 17 million pieces!
This figure is much more than the number of local museums and private collections in China, and they have to be bought back with money, and even if China has money, how many pieces can it buy?
All this is just that someone behind the scenes is trying to get our attention! Perhaps, it would be better to drag down our economy.
"Brother Zhao, you are the consultant of the Jinhe Auction House, I don't know, can you help me put this thing on it and send it for auction? ”
Zhang Mingliang said, touching the partridge spot like a baby, who would have thought that this small teacup was worth so much money, but fortunately, he no longer trusted the owner of the antique shop before, and he didn't sell it easily.
"It doesn't matter if it costs or not, but our auction house has recently held a year-end auction, and all the auction items have been registered and announced, so it is not easy to change, if you choose to send the auction, it may be until next year." ”
Zhao Tianming made it clear to them the current situation of the Jinhe Auction House, unless it was a treasure of the finale level, it would definitely not change the roster, and this partridge was obviously not up to this level.
"No problem, as long as we can sell it, we are not in a hurry. Zhang Mingliang waved his hand and said, they were already very satisfied with this unexpected gain.
"Then Brother Zhao, if you help us take a look at this thing again, is it also valuable?"
Xiao Fang diligently moved the nearly half-meter-high porcelain vase in front of Zhao Tianming, and said earnestly.
With the previous example, they also have an inexplicable sense of expectation for this porcelain vase, which feels very new at first glance.
This porcelain vase in front of you, the lower circle is narrow, it is white, it looks like it gives people a warm and moist jade, clean and distinct feeling, there are three cranes flying high and six fluttering white clouds on it, it is a very happy omen, and, it seems, the craftsmanship is exquisite, the skill is superb, it should be from the hands of the masters.
It's just that the whole porcelain vase looks a little new, not like an antique.
"This is sweet white porcelain, a semi-detached white glazed porcelain created by Yongle kiln, and it is a court sacrificial vessel. Yongle sweet white glaze is the pinnacle of ancient white porcelain, as famous as Xuande furnace, and later generations have been trying to surpass it unsuccessfully, taking it as an example. ”
Zhao Tianming looked at it and said.
"It's as famous as the Xuande furnace, isn't that very valuable?"
Everyone is overjoyed, the reputation of Xuande furnace, they have still heard of it, just one impression, expensive!