Chapter 202: Longquan Kiln, Bronze Jue
Sun Zhongyuan still judged according to Baoguang that this robe Cong bottle is a fine product of the Longquan kiln in the Southern Song Dynasty!
When it comes to Longquan kiln, although it is not an official kiln, its fame is not smaller than that of the official kiln, and it is inextricably linked with the brother kiln, one of the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty!
Longquan kiln also occupies one of the largest kilns in China, and it is the longest kiln system in Chinese history. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Note that the kiln system is not a kiln mouth. It is not difficult to see that the kiln system contains a lot of kiln mouths.
The Longquan kiln system can be traced back to the Three Kingdoms period at the earliest, and was discontinued in the Qing Dynasty, spanning as long as 1,600 years! The Longquan of Zhejiang, since ancient times, has been famous, even if they do not understand porcelain, many people have heard of the Longquan sword.
In fact, there are many unsolved mysteries in the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty, such as many problems of the Ru kiln that has only existed for more than ten years, such as the kiln site that has been unresolved.
The kiln site is still undecided, so it is impossible to study the specific history, and the characteristics can only be analyzed according to the artifacts that have been handed down.
In the study of the kiln, there is a statement that has been recognized by many people, that is, the kiln site of the Song Dynasty kiln is likely to be in Longquan.
This statement is that there were two brothers in Longquan at that time, and the younger brother was called Zhang Shenger, and the kiln he presided over was very famous, so it was called Longquan kiln. At the same time, the elder brother also presided over a kiln, which produced porcelain that was not quite the same as the younger brother's, and the output was also less than that of the younger brother's, which was also famous.
Zhang Shenger's brother is called Zhang Shengyi. The kiln mouth presided over by Zhang Shenger is called Longquan kiln, and the kiln mouth presided over by Zhang Shengyi is called Ge kiln.
This is the connection between Longquan kiln and Ge kiln.
However, the top products of the five famous kilns are all in the Northern Song Dynasty. The heyday of Longquan kiln was the Southern Song Dynasty.
The Longquan kiln of the Northern Song Dynasty is also celadon, but the glaze is a little dark, and it is relatively thin, and there are more open pieces. This point can also be matched with the characteristics of the kiln, which is also known for its opening, the so-called "golden wire", which is what it says.
The Longquan kiln in the Southern Song Dynasty has a beautiful glaze color! For example, plum green, pink green, and the glaze color is also relatively thick, and there are few open pieces, which is fat and moist.
This Cong-style bottle is from the Longquan kiln of the Southern Song Dynasty.
The porcelain of Longquan kiln in the Southern Song Dynasty is the most beautiful porcelain in the history of Longquan kiln, and it is also the most valuable porcelain in Longquan kiln in the market.
Moreover, the porcelain of Longquan kiln, until the Ming and Qing dynasties, still had a high status under the official kiln. In the late Ming Dynasty, Longquan kilns were also exported to Europe.
At that time, the Europeans, where had they ever seen such beautiful porcelain, they were amazed!
This verdant and delicate alluring color alone made Europeans indescribable, and in the end, it was named Seratong.
This is a transliteration of a French word. At that time, the French aristocracy was upper-class, and there was a play called "The Shepherdess" that was very famous, and in this play, the name of the male protagonist was Seratong.
Seratong was dressed in a blue cloth robe, hence the name.
Now Westerners call the Longquan kiln in Huaxia, and it is also called Seratong.
The Longquan kiln porcelain exported to Europe in the Ming Dynasty was limited after all, so the nobles were proud to own Seratong.
Sun Zhongyuan is willing to pay 580,000 yuan, naturally because of the value of this Cong bottle, since he is optimistic, then try to be as safe as possible, it is definitely not good if it is too low, what if there is a person with a playful mentality?
But he also doesn't want to pay too high a price, because he knows that others are pure gambling, even if they are leaks, who wants to spend more money in vain?
What he calculated was that 500,000 should be a hurdle, and even if it was a bid, their maximum would be about 500,000. Therefore, the price of 580,000 yuan was paid.
Although the fine products of Longquan kiln are not as rare as the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty, there are not many of them.
And there is a problem here, most of the Longquan kiln products have now been taken away by people in Zhejiang. In this, there is the role of regional culture. Zhejiang's economy is also relatively developed, many people collect Longquan kiln even at any cost, as long as it is genuine, the high price is in the bag.
Sun Zhongyuan estimated that if it was cleaned and auctioned after it was taken, it would be easy to exceed 10 million yuan, and it would not be impossible to rush to 20 million.
After everyone signed the lot, all the procedures went as usual.
When Lao Lu came out again, he looked at everyone with a smile, Sun Zhongyuan felt that his gaze on himself had a little more time, and he thought in his heart that there was a chance that this thing was won by himself.
Kuang Xiyin secretly said to Sun Zhongyuan, "You are so sure, if you pay for this thing, it will be yours!"
"Uncle Tiger, isn't this okay? ”
"I'm missing this little money!" Kuang Xiyin said, "Don't look at the different personalities of Xu Heizi, but he has excellent character and even better craftsmanship, I serve! You are his apprentice, and you can be regarded as loving the house and Wu. ”
Sun Zhongyuan knew that Kuang Xiyin was rich and wealthy, and he was indeed his elder, so he stopped talking. However, he thought about it again, this thing was really a little reluctant to make a move, after all, it was not easy to touch.
Just as he was thinking about it, the fourth thing was brought up, and it was a small bronze object.
Sun Zhongyuan went up and looked at it as usual, this is a bronze knight.
Jue, is a wine vessel, but also a ritual vessel, generally round belly, but also occasionally square belly, one side of the mouth in front, there is a flow (out of the wine groove), the other side has a handle, the bottom has three legs.
Its practical jue to drink, than to use a cup to drink, the "flow" plays an excessive role, small mouth, when drinking, both sides of the mouth is not easy to overflow. Moreover, it is very feeling to drink wine with Jue and hold it with both hands. In the earliest days, it was not a drinking vessel, but a wine infusion vessel, which could also be used to warm wine, and later it slowly became a drinking vessel.
There are many wine vessels in the bronzes, such as in addition to Jue, there are also jue, horns, and so on, but Jue is the earliest, even earlier than most bronzes, and even earlier in the Xia Dynasty.
The bronze jue is a wine vessel, which is very precious in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, and only the nobles can use it, and the low class also uses the jue as a wine vessel, but it is basically a pottery jue.
Therefore, later, Jue evolved into a status symbol and was also used as a ritual weapon. The title of title was born in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and there were five kinds of titles at that time: duke, marquis, uncle, son, and male.
After the Western Zhou Dynasty, the instrument of Jue gradually disappeared. So now when I see the film and television dramas of the Qin and Han dynasties, at large-scale banquets, a large number of people drink with Jue, which makes connoisseurs look like people in 2017 are still talking on the phone with Big Brother.
Sun Zhongyuan looked at this bronze jue, judging from the rust color and Tuqin, it was also something that had not been unearthed for a long time.
The surface of this bronze jue is cast with a ridge, and there are two layers of patterns, and the bottom layer is a cloud and thunder pattern, and the decoration is complicated, which is a typical feature of the early bronze jue of the Western Zhou Dynasty.