Chapter 481 Even if you have a family property, it is better than a piece of porcelain
Enamel porcelain, first burned in the late Kangxi period, flourished in Yongzheng, Qianlong, painted by the painters of the palace Ruyi Museum, extremely beautiful, also called "Gu Yuexuan" porcelain, is the royal vessel.
The whole piece of porcelain should be perfectly stored, it seems that the old man Liang is also a caring person, fortunately, Liang Fa, the idiot, did not knock it when he was carrying it, otherwise, such a perfect piece of porcelain would be ruined. This thing has a bright glaze and a thick pulp, it should be a hand-me-down work with a wide open door, and it has been played with and appreciated throughout the ages, but no matter which collector or person is playing with it, it is very careful to protect this thing and not let it suffer the slightest damage.
It's not easy, you must know that over the years, there have been many natural disasters such as earthquakes and other natural disasters, coupled with wars and military disasters, it can be preserved to this day, which is really a creation.
After gently putting down the enamel porcelain in his hand, Zhang Tianyuan looked around, and his eyes were fixed on the porcelain of the Ru kiln, it is really a very rare thing to see the real Ru kiln here, after all, among the five famous kilns of Ru, Guan, Ge, Jun and Ding, Ru kiln is in the first place, and there are less than 80 surviving works, most of which are stored in the museum, and there are almost no genuine works that can be seen by the people, or they are rare, very few.
The phrase "Ruyao is the king" was said by Ye Ning, a native of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the Southern Song Dynasty people were full of nostalgia and respect for the Northern Song Dynasty.
A nation full of poetry and books was driven across the river by a "rough man" on horseback to build another home, and his belongings were almost lost, so another Southern Song Dynasty man Zhou Xuan also sighed to Ruyao "It is especially rare to be close".
The emperors and masters of the Northern Song Dynasty were not idle in terms of cultural needs, and they found that porcelain could shoulder more cultural responsibilities beyond its use. Who knows that the good times will not last long after the success of Ru kiln firing. Huiqin Erzong lost the country before he could finish appreciating it, and later lost his life. It is normal for the people of the Southern Song Dynasty to pin their nostalgia for their ancestors on the Ru kiln porcelain. For a thousand years. The experience of Ruyao has become a legend.
Ru kiln is precious, a large part of the reason is because it is only for the court in the Northern Song Dynasty to use the official kiln, before and after only about 20 years of firing, it uses precious agate as the glaze, the color is like "the rain after the sky is clear and the clouds are broken" as wonderful, warm and simple, the Southern Song Dynasty has a document that said that Ru kiln was very rare at that time. Since the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, Ru porcelain has been deeply hidden by the imperial palace and regarded as a treasure. Therefore, the folk also have the saying that "even if there is a family property, it is not as good as a piece of Ru porcelain".
The shape of this Ru kiln azure glazed sunflower wash is not complicated, it is an ordinary pen wash, but it fully reflects the characteristics of Ru kiln porcelain in the Song Dynasty, and it is very exquisite.
Pen wash is a kind of Han handicrafts, belongs to the four treasures of the study pen, ink, paper, inkstone other than a kind of study utensils, is used to hold water wash pen utensils, with the shape of well-behaved, varied, elegant and exquisite and widely favored, handed down in the pen wash. There are many of them as art treasures. There are many textures of pen washing, including porcelain, jade, agate, enamel, ivory and rhino horn, which are basically precious materials. Among the various pen washes, the most common is the porcelain pen wash.
This piece of porcelain is 13.5 centimeters in diameter. Six sunflower petals are fancy, the mouth is slightly skimmed, and the upper is abundant and the lower is constricted. Superficial abdomen with thin walls. The edges and corners are subtle, and the body undulates along the edge. The circle foot is slightly outward, and there are three small sesame nail marks at the bottom.
The typical characteristics of Ru porcelain are: "blue as the sky, the face as jade, the cicada wing pattern, the morning star is scarce." Sesame nail glaze satisfies. "And this thing has exactly achieved these characteristics, which is not an easy task.
If Zhang Tianyuan is not mistaken, this thing should have had a rather tortuous history, this Northern Song Dynasty Ru kiln azure glazed sunflower wash and the British Museum collection of Ru kiln wash was originally a pair, both belonged to the collection of the Clarks, in 1936 the two donated one to the British Museum, the other appeared in the 1937 French exhibition.
It is not difficult to speculate that this pair of Ru kiln washes should have been part of the Clark family's collection before 1936. After Mr. Clark's death in 1950, his wife kept another piece of Ru kiln washing until a few years before her death in 1976. In all likelihood, she sold it to a local antique dealer in London, and then resold it to Ryusendo, a Japanese cocoon.
"Cocoonsan Ryusendo" was a well-known antique shop in Japan before the war, and was once as famous as the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce. Its founder, Matsutaro Cocoyama, relied on a celadon stove in the Song Dynasty to establish his position as a large merchant of Longquan celadon antiques in Japan, and he also opened his antique shop in Japan. In order to commemorate the history of Longquan celadon in our country, he named his antique shop "Longquan". After decades of being treasured by Longquantang in Cocoon Mountain, this Ruyao sunflower wash finally made a high-profile appearance at Sotheby's Hong Kong Spring Auction.
And after several tosses, this thing actually got into the hands of Mr. Liang, the most interesting thing is that this pair of brushes unexpectedly reunited, that is to say, what is now in front of Zhang Tianyuan's eyes is a pair of treasures, not a piece, generally speaking, the price of pairs or sets of things is much more expensive.
The general collector should understand that the things that have been handed down for hundreds or even thousands of years, during which they have gone through various wars and natural disasters, the change of dynasties, and it is already a miracle to be able to keep it intact.
It's a pity that this situation is basically one in ten thousand, and the porcelain auctioned in many auction houses is either a unique piece, or there are only one or two pieces left in the original set, which is a pity, there are pairs, which is really rare.
Including Zhang Tianyuan, almost as long as the collectors really love the collection, they all hope to be able to put together the things in their hands, and even spend huge financial resources and energy to beg grandpa and grandma to beg grandpa to sue grandma, so as not to get the feeling of not giving up, but often in the end, it is still a bamboo basket to draw water, and still can't get it.
In fact, there is a very simple truth, that is, the price of complete sets or pairs of antiques, especially porcelain, in the market will definitely not be as simple as one plus one equals two, but will increase several times, more than ten times, or even dozens of times, to the point of frightening.
As you can imagine. At the beginning, Mr. Liang didn't know how many twists and turns it took to get this thing. How many favors did I owe, and finally put things together as a pair. It's a pity that the future generations will not succeed, and they will start to lose so soon and sell such a good thing as garbage.
In the process of careful observation, Zhang Tianyuan unexpectedly found that there were some dried things in the pen wash that seemed to be bird food, and he strangely observed it with a magnifying glass, and couldn't help but want to scold.
"Liang Fa, your mother is really a complete loser, I think it's really right for you to take out these things and sell them, it's a tyrannical thing to let you keep them."
"What's wrong, Brother Zhang. Is something wrong? Li Nanting asked suspiciously.
"This dog's day sucks big with such a good thing. Hemp! Zhang Tianyuan said very unhappily.
Unexpectedly, hearing this, Li Nanting's face also turned red, Zhang Tianyuan understood in his heart, this pair, alas, actually used such a valuable thing to suck that kind of thing, loser, let alone loser, if Old Man Liang lived. He will definitely be to death, but fortunately his old man died early, otherwise it would be really troublesome.
"How much is this thing worth? What is it? Liang Fa will not be embarrassed, let alone ashamed. He was most concerned about how much it was worth.
Zhang Tianyuan didn't pay attention to this product at all, even if he knew that this thing was real and knew what price it was worth. It won't be said lightly, and it can be bought cheaply. He's definitely not going to pay a high price.
Carefully put down the two Ru kiln brushes again, and reluctantly glanced at them. What he was looking at now was the enamel porcelain, and the pair of brushstrokes, although it was said that it was used to smoke too much. Hemp, but fortunately, it is not broken, the value will not become lower, he has money, and he can afford it.
"Be careful, hey, let you be careful, you can afford to pay for this painting to be torn!" After Zhang Tianyuan put down the pen wash, he was thinking about what to look at next, when he suddenly heard a Liang Fa shouting, he turned his head to see, it turned out to be a waiter when he was about to leave, he accidentally tripped over a painting, and the painting opened a corner, revealing a little bit of the content of the painting, but this little bit made Zhang Tianyuan's heart "bang", and he was so shocked that he hurriedly went over and grabbed the painting in his hand.
"It's okay, it's not broken!" Zhang Tianyuan's sudden move attracted most of the people in the room, only the two old men who were still arguing did not come, and the rest of the people came over to join in the fun, they didn't know what treasure Zhang Tianyuan saw, he was so panicked that he couldn't even take care of etiquette.
"If I'm not mistaken, this painting is a treasure!" Zhang Tianyuan thought about it psychologically, and slowly opened the painting, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and the whole person was a little excited.
"That's right, it won't be wrong, this painting is the "Bamboo and Stone Mandarin Duck Picture" of Bada Shanren. But no, wasn't this thing auctioned off in the first place? It seems that more than 100 million people have been filmed, how did it fall into the hands of Liang Fa, a loser? Could it be that the actual boss behind the filming of this thing was Mr. Liang? ”
After the scroll was opened, the true face of Lushan was completely revealed, Zhang Tianyuan was taken aback, when the waiter stumbled upon this painting, he had already determined the authenticity of this painting, this is the absolute authenticity, not the copy of later generations, nor the copy of the ancients, this is the true work of the Bada Mountain people.
For a while, Zhang Tianyuan felt like a man who was struggling to pursue his other half met the goddess in his heart, and he was so excited in his heart that his breathing became a little short.
It's a little funny to say, Zhang Tianyuan had the fate to see this painting when he was a child, and after seeing this painting at that time, Zhang Tianyuan also swore that he said: "I want to buy this painting." ”
He was holding a dime in his hand at the time, and he stole it from under the bed, because of this dime, but he was beaten by his father, but he didn't expect that after so many years, this painting actually came to his eyes again, he couldn't be excited, his childhood wish can actually come true today, there is nothing more dramatic in this world.
Bada Shanren, named Zhu Qi, Jiang. Southwest. Changren, the ninth grandson of Zhu Quan, the king of Mingning, was one of the "four monks" in the early Qing Dynasty.
After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the country was destroyed and the family died, Zhu Qi was sad and angry, and he became a monk. He also used the names of snow, mountain, mountain donkey, donkey house, human house, Daolang, etc., and then entered the Qingyun spectrum as the road.
He is usually called Zhu Qi, but this name was used for a short time, and in his later years, he took the name Bada Shanren and used it until his death. When he signed his paintings, he often wrote "Eight Greats" and "Mountain People" vertically. The first two words are similar to the word "crying" and "laughing", while the last two words are similar to the word "zhi". (To be continued......)