Wu Tianyuan left the museum and went directly to Yixing, Jiangxi Province to hunt for treasures, this time with a few master pots received by Xu Sihai to develop the best mud deposits. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Big red robe, navy blue gray, and descending mud, the three famous species must be found!"

Wu Tianyuan spent a few days running all over Yixing, and finally found all the three major mud deposits, so that Tianyuan Mining all enclosed land and prepared for development.

"Brother Wu, I have admired the name for a long time, and I finally have a chance to meet!"

Xu Hanting, a national master of arts and crafts, warmly received Wu Tianyuan, who is one of the ten existing national arts and crafts masters, and is also a master of purple clay pots and an old friend of the old man Ouyang. This time, he just wanted to talk about cooperation, he had the best clay in his hands, and he also wanted to find a real master to make a pot.

"I've been in Yixing all my life, I've been playing with mud all my life, and this is my home."

"Now the purple clay pot market is in chaos, and a good brand is being made by its own people!"

Xu Hanting said helplessly: "In October last year, the names of more than 60 well-known purple sand potters in Yixing were preemptively registered as trademarks, because when the local industrial and commercial department came to promote industrial and commercial knowledge to a purple sand pottery artist, the artist felt that it was indeed necessary to register his name as a trademark, but the industrial and commercial department found that his name had already been preemptively registered by others. ”

Later, these purple sand potters frequently received faxes or phone calls to harass, and the other party asked them to pay money to "redeem" the ownership and use rights of their names and trademarks, which caused them a headache. ”

"When buying a purple sand pot, the author's seal and signature certificate are one of the important bases for screening the authenticity of the work, but once the name of the purple sand potter is registered as a trademark by others, can the genuine purple sand potter still engrave his name on the pot he makes?"

"If the trademark squatting is successful, the squatter must affix the name of the purple sand potter to the purple sand pot, and it really can't be said that he is fake."

Wu Tianyuan is also helpless, this kind of thing happens in every industry, and because of this reason, China does not have a high-end brand of its own. Porcelain is, tea is, and purple clay pots too!

"Why many people don't pay attention to the trademark rights of their names, in fact, in the final analysis, it is related to the tradition of purple clay pot making, thinking that their own workshop-style operation does not matter, or they are annoyed by the fakes that have long flooded the market, so let it be."

"The purple clay pot, no matter how much it emphasizes its artistic level, first of all, it must meet one condition, that is, it is used for tea! This is a clear difference from calligraphy, painting, and even porcelain. In addition, the raw materials used to make it are also unique, unlike pipes, which also have obvious use value, as a collection it can be briar, sepiolite, or even corn cob. So I don't think the purple clay pot can be said to be a work of art completely, but should be a craft. In fact, you see that Yixing is now the master of purple clay pots, and our full name is actually the master of Chinese arts and crafts. ”

Wu Tianyuan suddenly remembered the Master Gu Jingzhou pot in his hand at the beginning, and there was a disciple of Zhou Zhenfang, and asked curiously.

"The high imitation pot has existed since the birth of the purple clay pot, and it is the same as the antique porcelain. The purple sand pottery master made a pot, and other purple sand pottery artists used more wonderful means and relatively close materials to privately engrave the master's seal and stamp, and then imitate it. ”

"Some pot masters imitate the level is still very high, such as the Republic of China period some masters specialized in high imitation of the Ming and Qing dynasties of the famous pot, in order to pursue realistic effects, the more and more the practice of kung fu, but their own level has also been practiced, and now even the "high imitation pot" has become a collector's sought after boutique. ”

This is also a food based on craftsmanship, and the most harmful is the "gunman OEM pot", that is, the person who makes the pot himself fakes his work! Now the purple clay pot market is popular, some masters of the pot at every turn more than 100,000 yuan, but the market demand is still very strong, out of a handful of people to grab a handful, and even some enterprises and institutions to spend tens of millions of yuan to buy the master pot, trying to maintain the value of funds in this way. ”

"Last year, there was a case in the Yixing market that a southern enterprise sent someone to take out 10 million yuan of funds to purchase 100 national master pots. However, according to the traditional hand-made method, a purple sand potter, no matter how diligent he is, can only make 50 pots a year. In fact, in order to maintain the standard of their works, more purple sand pottery artists often only have 3~5 pots a year, where are there so many master pots in the market for purchase? But driven by high profits, a very small number of masters can't help but be confused. ”

"The common practice is to ask the 'gunner' to do the OEM, but the last and two processes are done by the master himself. Do you think such a pot is a fake pot or a real pot? This kind of pot is often sold directly in the master's studio or in the hands of the master, and with the real master's seal and real certificate, who can tell whether the pot is real or fake? ”

Wu Tianyuan also had a headache when he heard it, he didn't expect the purple clay pot market to be so chaotic! Antique porcelain is a high technical requirement, not easy to imitate successfully, even if the imitation cost is very large, the rejection rate is very high. But the purple clay pot is different, it is mud burning.

There is no glaze, no painting, no carving, if the master himself is involved in the fake, then there is really no place to reason!

"The traditional handmade pot, from cutting mud blocks to beating mud strips to surrounding mud pieces to scratching negatives; Then to the body tube, the bottom, the grate tube, the production of the handle, the production of the spout, until the blank is completed, after drying, into the kiln firing several times, often through dozens of processes. ”

"But since the machine, a pot body came out in an instant, and the original maximum of 10 pot bodies a day can be easily made with hundreds of pot bodies a day using the blank drawing machine. After the body of the pot comes out, the lid and spout are made by the assembly line, and finally spliced. ”

In the current purple clay pot market in Yixing, in fact, the price of a pot is "recognizing people but not things". "To exaggerate, even a pot made by a celebrity is more expensive than a high-level purple clay pot made by a person who has no name."

"At present, there are more than 30,000 purple sand potters and thousands of purple sand workshops in Yixing. The market is the work of the national master from 100,000 yuan or even millions of yuan, the works of the provincial arts and crafts master is generally 50,000 to 100,000 yuan, and then the next arts and crafts artist, the price ranges from thousands to tens of thousands of yuan, the lowest level of craftsmen, the works are often between 200 ~ 500 yuan. The wholesale price of a purple sand pot will basically not exceed 100 yuan, and there is no difference in material between a purple sand pot and a purple sand pot of 1 million yuan, but the price is 10,000 times different. (To be continued.) )