Geng Baochang suddenly asked mysteriously: "Do you know what the real Tianzi No. 1 collection of our Forbidden City is?"

Su Yuan was stunned for a moment, very curious, what would be the treasure that could make the Forbidden City rank the first in the sky?

"Here, I'll show you for yourself!"

Geng Baochang waved his hand, and the two came to the westernmost corner of the exhibition hall, and finally saw the mysterious baby.

"It's ......"

Su Yuan looked at the thing in front of him, was taken aback, and said in confusion: "The wooden door pier that stepped on it?"

"Hahaha, I didn't expect it, right? It's this little stool, worthy of the name, it's actually the No. 1 Tianzi in the Forbidden City!"

Geng Baochang laughed heartily and explained: "The earliest numbering method of the cultural relics of the Forbidden City is based on the palace, and the word in the "Thousand Character Text" is used as the code, such as the Qianqing Palace where the emperor lives is given "heaven", and the Kunning Palace where the queen lives is given "earth", and then the cultural relics displayed in the palace are registered, and the order is given a serial number. ”

"It is said that when the staff numbered the cultural relics, because the first thing they saw when they entered the door was this small stool, they listed it as the No. 1 cultural relics of Tianzi, and this number has been used to this day. ”

"The magic is more than that, do you know what is the No. 1 Tianzi of the Treasure Island Forbidden City?"

Geng Baochang said with a smile: "It's also a small stool, the emperor's stepping stool, because they all follow this numbering method, do you think it's funny?"

The two laughed, and came to a display case again, only to see a blue and white figure jar, which was actually a remnant?

YUAN Qinghua,

Character jar!

Geng Baochang stared at the remnants and said helplessly: "This is one of the regrets of the Forbidden City, the Yuan blue and white character story jar has a very important position in the porcelain world, a dazzling and wonderful flower, and even occupies a dominant position, and cannot be replaced by any treasure." ”

"There are only eight long-recognized Yuan Qinghua character story jars in the world, and all of them have been lost overseas. This remnant comes from the folk, it is the most well-preserved work, and it is also the only remnant of the Forbidden City.

Su Yuan nodded, Yuan Qinghua was already rare, not to mention the character jar, which was much rarer than Ru Yao.

The most talked-about is Guiguzi Xiashan, which was sold at Christie's in London for 14 million pounds in 2005 and was acquired by the Jewish antiques dealer Eskenazi, which is equivalent to about 230 million yuan plus commission.

Creating a sky-high price record, exchanging it for gold for a whole room, according to the cost performance, is still invincible.

The only work in China was unearthed in 1980 in Siguanling, Hengxian County, Yuan Qinghua Wei Chi Gong rode the Savior picture jar alone, and was discarded in the corner for seven years after being unearthed.

In 1987, an agronomist stumbled upon a pick-up and took it home to grow flowers and seeds. It was only in 1989 that cultural relics experts confirmed the status of a national treasure, and even the Forbidden City could only be envious and hateful.

Geng Baochang sighed and recalled: "On the day of the Guiguzi Downhill Auction, there were at least a dozen people participating in the standard cans, including many collectors from China, including Wang Dingqian, general manager of Baodao Humble House, Zhang Zongxian, the first person in the auction, and Zhai Jianmin, secretary general of the Hong Kong Island Art Chamber of Commerce. ”

"When the bid reached £10 million, there were still six or seven people bidding. At that time, Wang Dingqian told me that the estimate was around 8 million pounds, and the highest support point was set at 10 million, but I didn't expect it to ...... in the end."

"Eskenazi is the world's leading dealer in early art, and he joined when the price tag reached £13.5 million, and it took a long time to get the treasure. ”

After the filming, even he was exhausted by the tense atmosphere of the scene, and he had reached his limit, and he didn't know how long he could hold on. ”

"The most amazing thing is that this Yuan blue and white is actually salvaged from a shipwreck!"

Su Yuan looked at Yuan Qinghua and gave an overview of the development history of porcelain, and Yuan Qinghua was undoubtedly one of the highlights. In addition to some small pieces of porcelain with light character, most of them were collected in museums in Iran and Turkey, and were regarded as national treasures because of the rare sky blue.

It is an underglaze porcelain made of cobalt oxide as a raw material to depict patterns on white porcelain tires, covered with transparent glaze, and fired at high temperatures. Its white background is blue, and it is as new as new for thousands of years.

Although blue and white porcelain existed as early as the Tang Dynasty, the complete Tang blue and white and Song blue and white have not been found so far. By the middle and late Yuan Dynasty, the blue and white craft gradually matured.

"According to expert research and estimates, there are only 300 pieces of Yuan Qinghua in the world, and they are all in museums. There are basically no genuine products among the people, and even high imitations are few, because the raw materials are too rare. ”

Su Ma is away from the green!

This kind of raw material, which has long been extinct, makes the overall picture blue and white decoration tone change in different shades affected by the temperature of the kiln, and when observed with a magnifying glass, it gives people a sense of clarity and depth.

Look closely at the blue and white color, vivid, in the bright place has a vivid sense of flow, a unique eternal.

Geng Baochang lamented: "The source of this cobalt material is in the village of Quamsa in Boska Mountain, and the local people believe that a person named Suleiman discovered the cobalt material, so it is named after it. ”

"The blue and white flowers are thick and verdant, and the color is stable, because Su Ma has a high iron content and low manganese content from the blue, and it shows a sapphire-like bright color under the appropriate heat firing, which is beautiful. ”

"Because Su Ma is relatively heavy in the iron content of the green material, the fired ware has a characteristic that other glazes do not have, namely rust spots, strictly speaking, this should be a flaw, and it is precisely this flaw that makes Yuan Qinghua. ”

Su Yuan studied carefully, and various scenes flashed in his eyes, and he found that the iron component contained in Su Mali's green material during the firing process would break through the glaze, causing the glaze to produce a kind of breach that could not be artificially made.

It is as irregular as an explosion point, but at the same time there are ups and downs with a sense of layering, some like branches falling in winter, some like burnt but not burned out cinders, some like terraces with water on the mountains, and some like whirlpools in the torrent.

Even the grimaces in abstract paintings are in a variety of postures and manners. There are hundreds or thousands of bursts in each artifact, and each bursting point has a different pattern, who can imitate it?

Open up a new era from plain color to color porcelain, the style of painting is bold, rich and majestic, and there are many layers, which opens up a new way in the traditional aesthetics of the Chinese nation, which is a wonderful flower in the history of porcelain, and lays the prestige of Jingdezhen as the porcelain capital of the world.

Yuan Qinghua used hemp cang clay and porcelain stone as its skeleton and flesh and blood, and Su Ma Liqing and white blue glaze as clothes, and gave the porcelain soul with superb painting technology and charm, so it repeatedly set sky-high records in the history of auctions around the world and established a hegemonic position.

"At that time, Su Ma Liqing had long been extinct, even if it was replaced by Huiqing in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the best grade could not reproduce the beauty of the Yuan Dynasty!"

Geng Baochang said: "For thousands of years, countless talented people have wanted to reproduce Yuan Qinghua, but no matter the raw materials or the process, no one has ever succeeded, this is the real rare is expensive." ”