Chapter Eighty-Five: The Price of Ten Million
With the successive appearance of professional contestants, the collection is varied, and the price is gradually rising, but the real high price is still rare, although the Song porcelain production is quite large, but the number that has been handed down to this day is much rarer, not to mention that the high price is one of the fines.
Therefore, even if it is an insider, there are many things that are only priced at hundreds of thousands, and at the same time, the proportion of fakes has gradually risen, and even several pieces that look like famous kiln boutiques appear in a row, and the results are identified as fakes, and the scene of the competition is a little weird, for ordinary audiences, sometimes they are confused, they are obviously like the real thing, but they are identified as fakes, and some porcelain that looks inconspicuous can be identified as genuine products with a price of tens or even millions.
Tong Dongyang's appearance undoubtedly made the scene fall into a **, everyone held their breath, watching him slowly take the collection out of the box, as soon as they saw the things inside, the audience who had seen a lot of various types of porcelain recognized it, this is an eight-sided wash.
Washing utensils, first seen in the Western Jin Dynasty, are generally open, wide folded edge, wide belly straight wall, flat bottom, there are many water ripples depicted inside, widely used, after the Song Dynasty, there are also many firing.
The eight-petal sunflower shape of this washer is not unusual, but what attracts attention is the black stripes that unfold on the glaze, which are cut by the interweaving of thick and thin lines, like ice cracks.
As soon as he saw this pattern, Ji Xiaofan had already blurted out: "Golden wire!" ”
Zhao Zhuo smiled slightly, although he was not sure whether this was genuine, but such an opening did meet the characteristics of the gold wire of the kiln.
According to historical records, the founder of the kiln is named Zhang Shengyi, and his younger brother is called Zhang Shenger, the two brothers built a kiln in the two Zhejiang Road Prefecture and Longquan County, the kiln built by the elder brother is called the brother kiln, and the kiln built by the younger brother is the younger kiln, also known as the Longquan kiln.
Ge kiln is famous for its grain among the five famous kilns, and often the whole piece of porcelain is open, and the characteristics are very obvious.
The so-called grain piece, also known as open piece, refers to a natural cracking phenomenon that occurs on the glaze, which is originally a defect in porcelain firing, whether it is the original celadon, the mature celadon of the Six Dynasties or the porcelain of the Tang Dynasty, there is the phenomenon of opening the piece.
However, in the Song Dynasty, people mastered the law of cracking, consciously let it produce an open piece, thus producing a unique sense of beauty, this technology to the brother kiln is the most superb, the texture of the small grain is golden yellow, the texture of the large grain is iron black, so it is called the gold wire iron wire.
This piece of eight-sided washing, the glaze of the pattern is quite large, black, quite like the shape of gold wire, and its glaze is blue-gray, the glaze is warm, and there is a sense of turbidity under the closer look, it can be seen that it is a transparent opaque glaze.
From this alone, it can be inferred that this object may be the object of the kiln.
Look at its mouth and feet, the edge is thinner, revealing a dark tire, although the bottom is not turned up, but from the bottom edge, it is obvious that the glaze layer is not smeared, so the original iron color of the porcelain tire is exposed, which is another characteristic of the kiln, that is, "purple iron foot".
The position of each kiln mouth is different, and the porcelain clay used is not the same, so some porcelain tires are burned out more white, and some of the colors are darker, the iron content of porcelain clay in the kiln is quite high, slightly purple, so the bottom foot part of the porcelain tire without the glaze layer shows the iron color of the porcelain body, which is called the iron foot, and the mouth with thinner glaze is purple.
Ji Xiaofan also looked very seriously, and then whispered: "Gold wire, purple iron feet, and this eight-sided wash has excellent texture and fine workmanship, all of which are the style of porcelain for the court, which is very different from the porcelain fired in the folk kiln, and it is estimated that it is really a thing from the brother kiln." ”
Zhao Zhuo bowed slightly, narrowed his eyes and said: "If you want to know if it is a kiln vessel, there is actually a simpler method, but this method has been ignored by people for a long time." ”
Ji Xiaofan couldn't help but be surprised: "What kind of method is that?" ”
Zhao Zhuo smiled slightly and said, "The method of collecting beads and gathering balls." ”
"How to gather beads and balls?" Ji Xiaofan was confused when he heard it.
Zhao Zhuo smiled slightly; "The kiln has always been known for its exquisite and fine ware, so there are many imitations in later generations, especially in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, Jingdezhen is the most famous imitation, and it can even be fake. However, there is one thing that cannot be imitated by future generations, that is, the glaze bubble of Ge kiln porcelain, which is called the bead gathering ball.
Ji Xiaofan nodded again and again when he heard this, and Zhao Zhuo continued: "The so-called beads refer to the glaze of the Ge kiln porcelain, and its bubbles are fine like small water droplets, which are all over the inner and outer walls of the utensils or the inner and outer bodies, and this poly ball refers to a kind of bubble that is larger than the beads, and its number is less than that of the beads, but it is arranged in a circle on the inner wall of the utensil, like a very thick ring. So you and I can't see it, but if you get close and take a magnifying glass and look at it, it's clear. ”
Ji Xiaofan said with admiration: "Brother Zhao's knowledge is so rich, you can talk about anything." ”
Before Zhao Zhuo could answer, Jing Yao smiled behind him: "It would be strange if he didn't know." ”
Zhao Zhuo smiled when he heard this, and naturally understood the meaning of Jing Yao's words, with this ability to never forget, it was indeed difficult to forget many things.
At this time, after judging, the judges unanimously determined that this was the genuine product of the Song Dynasty Ge kiln, and the final price was 13 million due to the perfect shape and plump glaze.
Originally, the highest in the field was Fang Lu and Ji Xiaofan's seven million porcelain, and the price of the exhibits after that has not broken through, at most six million, and the high price is quite rare, but as soon as Tong Dongyang's porcelain was exhibited, the highest price was almost doubled, and many people in the audience stood up in shock, and their eyes widened.
What is the concept of more than 10 million, if it is a banknote, it can't be held together, however, just such a piece of porcelain can reach more than 10 million, which naturally surprises outsiders.
However, for insiders, they feel that this price is also worth the money if they buy it, although it is only a piece of porcelain, but it is a fine product that has been passed down through the ages, and its precipitated history and culture is a priceless treasure.
Tong Dongyang Yibao Zhenshan, it can be said that the contestants were greatly shocked, and the contestants behind them, not to mention the collection of tens of millions, even the last six or seven million are very few, but occasionally there are high-priced people, and they will immediately usher in a burst of cheers.
It didn't take long for Tong Qizhou to appear, and what he exhibited was a beast ear bottle from an official kiln, which was quite generous and decent, and the glaze was full.
The official kiln is the same as the brother kiln, and there is no kiln site so far, the official kiln is run by the royal family, specializing in firing royal porcelain, and the same as the brother kiln, it also has the characteristics of purple iron feet, as well as ice crack roads, but this ice pattern opening is quite different from the brother kiln.
There are very few heirloom porcelain from the official kiln, and its shape and craftsmanship have a lot in common with the Ru kiln, which is also small, and it is the first time that the official kiln has appeared until the fifth game.
This beast ear bottle is dignified and noble, the glaze layer is fat and with large ice cracks, and there is no decoration on the surface of the porcelain, but it feels more like a natural temperament, with the beauty of simple glaze.
However, it is a pity that this porcelain has a small gap, although this gap is filled, and it is quite perfect, but it can still be distinguished by the naked eye.
So in the end, although this piece of porcelain is indeed eye-catching, but because of this gap, the final price has depreciated to a certain extent, and the final price is only worth more than six million.
Not long after the appearance of the official kiln utensils, Fang Youming followed the stage, and what he brought was a tea cup, but the discerning person saw that this was not an ordinary tea cup, but a black glazed Tianmu bowl.
In the Song Dynasty, the tea was prosperous, and the tea leaves at that time were mostly made into semi-fermented paste cakes, and the paste cakes were crushed into fine powder before drinking, and then placed in the tea bowls, and then boiled with boiling water, so that the water surface boiled a layer of white foam.
Because the black bowl can bring out the white tea powder, the black glazed bowl is used as the tea set, and it is called the building lamp, which is mostly produced in Fujian, among which the black glazed bowl fired by the Fujian building kiln is the most loved.
Fujian kiln construction began in the late Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Song Dynasty, and declined in the Yuan Dynasty. It is mainly fired celadon, black glazed porcelain, blue and white porcelain, etc., and the most famous is naturally black glazed porcelain.
The black glazed bowl produced by the kiln is mostly made of black mud, the glaze is black and bright like lacquer, and the oil droplets are faintly visible, and it is collectively called the Tianmu bowl in the Yueben, and the Tianmu bowl of the Jianyao in the Song Dynasty is regarded as a national treasure in the Yueben.
Fang Youming took out this black glaze Tianmu bowl, its glaze is rigid, the glaze is black, the glaze is glazed inside and outside, its knife technique is natural, it is breathtaking, and what makes people care more is that the glaze has obvious vertical flow and kiln change phenomenon.
The so-called kiln change, refers to the porcelain in the kiln when the color, color, shape, sound, quality and other aspects of the attention of the specific changes, this piece of Tianmu bowl produced by the kiln change called rabbit hair, that is, the surface of the radial rabbit hair, very rare, just this kiln change, it has been enough to make it the Song Dynasty tea black glaze in the fine product.
Although the kiln is not one of the five famous kilns, the black glaze that represents the highest craftsmanship is not an ordinary product, and many of them are also offered to the court as tribute, and their fine products are comparable to those of the five famous kilns.
Sure enough, after several discussions among the judges, they decided that this Tianmu bowl was a fine product of the kiln, and finally gave a high price of 9 million.
In this way, Tong Dongyang's brother kiln Balengxi has the upper hand, and its high price of 13 million is beyond the reach of the contestants behind.
(To be continued)