Chapter 84 Famous Kiln Porcelain
With the exhibition of a piece of collections, the artifacts of various kilns of the two Song Dynasty have been presented one after another, what Jingdezhen kiln, Longquan kiln, Jizhou kiln, Jianyao, Cizhou kiln, Yaozhou kiln, and of course, porcelain from five famous kilns began to appear.
Although there are few surviving porcelain from the five famous kilns, in fact, in addition to the Ru kiln, the number of the other four kilns is only compared with other kilns.
Although it has the name of the five famous kilns, but it is not from the five famous kilns, it must be more expensive than the porcelain of other kilns, and the ordinary porcelain of the five famous kilns is not as good as the fine porcelain of other kilns in terms of price, of course, the fine porcelain of other kilns is naturally not as good as the fine porcelain of the five famous kilns.
When Fang Lu appeared with the box, the highest price of porcelain in this field had reached more than five million, and the highest price in the first four games at this time was only more than three million, which shows the difference.
Although the price is high enough, Fang Lu has no worried expression at all, he relied on white glaze to ward off evil spirits in the last game, and this time he is naturally prepared.
When he opened the box, the people in the venue suddenly felt that their eyes lit up, this is a white porcelain pot, but the shape is different from the ordinary pot, this is a children's ode to the scriptures.
The whole pot is shaped like a child, the sutra scroll held by the boy becomes the pot flow, and the body of the boy is the body of the pot, which is very ingeniously conceived.
Moreover, the clothes worn by the boy are carved with a knife into a scratch flower, and the embroidery is made with a needle, and the patterns are varied, so as soon as it is taken out, it wins a full house.
Zhao Zhuo squinted slightly and looked at this Tongzi Sutra pot, and couldn't help but admire slightly, the color of this pot is as white as jade, which is better than the Tang Dynasty Xingyao ware, the color is almost pure white, without a trace of cyan, its fetal quality looks very fine, and there is a feeling of thinness, and more importantly, on the body of the pot, there are tear-stained lines formed because of the glaze sagging, which is the tear-stained pattern of the Dingyao.
Zhao Zhuo determined that this is the fine work of the Ding kiln, and the Ding kiln among the five famous kilns is a major porcelain kiln system that emerged after the Xing kiln white porcelain in the Tang Dynasty. The main production areas are in the area of Jianci Village, East Yanchuan Village and West Yanchuan Village in Quyang County, Hebei Province. Dingyao was originally a folk kiln, and since the middle and late Song Dynasty, it began to burn porcelain for the court, so that the white porcelain of Dingyao has a fundamental leap.
The porcelain burned by it is no longer cosmetic soil, and the tire and glaze show the characteristics of fine, white and thin, and the whiteness of some utensils even exceeds the fine white porcelain of Xingyao. In the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty, due to the fine porcelain quality of the Ding kiln, the color is elegant, and the ornamentation is beautiful, it was selected as the porcelain for the court by the political axe of the Song Dynasty, which greatly increased its value, and the product was all the rage, known as white as jade, thin as paper, and sound like chime, and the price of its fine products is naturally extraordinary.
In particular, this Tongzi Song Sutra pot, its glaze is full, the shape is ingenious, and the whole is a high-level work of art.
So, under the affirmation of the judges, this kiln vessel finally won a high price of 7 million.
As soon as the price was assessed, a smile suddenly bloomed on Fang Lu's face, and he glanced at Ji Xiaofan and Tong Feiyu condescendingly, very proud.
Ji Xiaofan didn't have time to pay attention to him at this time, but was checking the video sent by Cui Shiyan, and then showed it to Zhao Zhuo.
The video shows an excavation plan, Zhao Zhuo couldn't help but be secretly surprised when he saw it, Cui Shiyan deserved to be the director of the museum, only took a trip to the tunnel, and was able to connect the tunnel with the pattern of the entire foggy mountain, and drew the direction of the tunnel into a perspective view, which showed that the pit of the treasure was located in the middle and lower part of the foggy mountain, and the passage meandered and walked, almost walking around the mountain for half a circle.
In the position where the passage is closer to the surface of the mountain, Cui Shiyan marked a symbol on it, and then wrote the plan, that is, to open up directly from the ground, this location is not the closest place to the surface, but because it is relatively close to the treasure land, and it has passed two mechanisms, so that after entering the underground, you can move very freely.
After sending the video, Cui Shiyan sent another text message, which means that the plan has been passed, and the detection will be carried out this morning, and then the construction will start, and it is estimated that the ground will be opened tomorrow.
Since Fang Lu displayed more than 7 million porcelain, the audience was in a state of excitement, some viewers watched four shows in a row, and they had already been mentally prepared for such a high price, so they seemed very calm, and those who only watched this scene were shocked, picking up the camera and "snapping" to shoot non-stop.
Soon, it was Ji Xiaofan's turn to come to the stage, and as soon as Ji Xiaofan's porcelain was taken out, everyone was taken aback, this was a white-glazed round five beast foot smoker.
The stove is a replica of gold and silver, consisting of a lid and a furnace. The cover is helmet-shaped, there is a flower jewel type stove top, the furnace body is attached to five beast face title ring feet, the shape is quite exquisite, and the porcelain tire is delicate and hard, the glaze color is smooth and transparent, it is also a rare fine work in the kiln porcelain.
There is a small story about the reason why this porcelain fell into the hands of Ji Xiaofan, this porcelain was accidentally discovered by Zhao Zhuo and Ji Xiaofan when they visited the Baicheng porcelain market, this is still after Zhao Zhuo found Ru kiln porcelain, when the two went to a stall, found a celadon three-legged wash, from the point of view of quality, this three-legged wash is well-made, the tire is thin and the glaze is thick, and the glaze is covered with caviar patterns, which seems to be a famous kiln of the Song Dynasty.
When I asked the price, the main price of the stall was not more than 1,000 yuan.
However, Zhao Zhuo and Ji Xiaofan are both veterans in this area, and everyone knows that the owners of the stalls in this porcelain market are all insiders, and it is absolutely impossible to sell the things of the famous kilns of the Song Dynasty to people at such a low price.
But Ji Xiaofan felt that even though this piece was a fake, it was quite good in shape, and it could be used for fun, so he bargained, but the stall owner didn't want to bargain, so he simply grabbed the incense burner in the bag and stuffed it to Ji Xiaofan, meaning buy one get one free.
As soon as Zhao Zhuo got the incense burner, he was immediately shocked, and hurriedly pulled Ji Xiaofan away.
The incense burner was clearly freshly dug out of the earth, covered in mud spots, and from the exposed parts it looked inconspicuous, especially the white glaze was very dull, and it was easy to see it as a fake.
However, Zhao Zhuo's eyesight was amazing, but from the exposed part judged that it was very likely to be a fixed kiln white porcelain, but after going back, the porcelain was washed with water, revealing the true face of this porcelain, which is amazing.
The stall owner and the buyer are the same, and it is inevitable that there will be times when they look away, especially when the other party buys in batches, and the genuine and fake products are mixed together, due to the large quantity, it is sometimes inevitable to be negligent, but this time, Ji Xiaofan unexpectedly harvested a piece of Dingyao porcelain.
As soon as this five-beast foot smoker came out, the judges also felt amazing, Ji Xiaofan and the three elementary schools are all very talented in the appraisal of the younger generation of the three families, and they have been deeply influenced since childhood, so their eyesight and experience in appraisal and collection are much higher than those of appraisers of the same age, and they don't have to take into account the problem of funds, so they can often harvest porcelain with high prices.
In the end, the porcelain was appraised at the same price of seven million, which was on par with Fanglu's porcelain.
Not long after, Tong Feiyu came on the field, and what Tong Feiyu took out was not an ordinary color, but a rose-colored flower pot.
As soon as the discerning person saw this rose color, he immediately associated with the Jun kiln, because only the porcelain of the Jun kiln can burn this rose color.
Jun kiln is the second official kiln established after Ru kiln during the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, specializing in firing all kinds of porcelain for the royal family, its glaze color is a must, ever-changing, red, blue, blue, white, purple blend together, brilliant as clouds, the poet of the Song Dynasty has praised it with "the sunset purple cui suddenly becomes a lan".
The reason why the color changes so much is because of the artistic effect caused by the mixing of the ingredients with copper vapor during the firing process, which invented the "kiln change" technique on the Chinese porcelain-making process.
This rose-colored flower pot is glazed with sky blue and rose-purple glaze outside, and there are obvious earthworm mud patterns on the glaze, which is an absolute feature of Jun kiln compared to rose.
Jun kiln ware are all after the second firing, because the glaze layer is very thick, often up to seven or eight millimeters, so it is easy to dry crack in the first firing, and then in the high temperature stage there is glaze inflow to fill, it forms a zigzag line, like an earthworm walking mud.
Although the shape of this rose-colored flower pot is relatively simple, it is quite large, and there are not many Jun kiln vessels, so the price is naturally relatively high.
However, the glaze of this Jun kiln has fallen off to a certain extent, which has affected the vision, and after careful consideration by the judges, a price of 6.8 million yuan was given.
Hearing this price, Tong Feiyu's face suddenly turned bad, he lost to Fang Lu last time, and this time he lost to two people in a row, and he was angry for a while.
However, the judges are all authorities in the industry, and what they say is Chrysostom, even if there is criticism, there is no way, Tong Feiyu had to step down angrily.
After the three-small battle, the scene gradually fell back, and the price of the contestants immediately returned to the curve of three or five million, sometimes high and sometimes low, and there were a lot of fakes.
The auction of porcelain in the Song Dynasty was very popular in the last century, and reached the ** at the end of the eighties, but with the countless fakes of porcelain in the Song Dynasty, and it is becoming more and more difficult to identify, in fact, it is not only a modern imitation, as early as the beginning of Yongzheng and Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Factory at that time has repeatedly produced imitation Ru, imitation brother, imitation official and other varieties, with ancient bronze modeling, in order to pursue the atmosphere of antiquity.
This type of porcelain is now often seen at auction and often fetches high prices. In recent years, the proliferation of old fakes in some places, even the use of the most advanced thermoluminescence dating method, the aging identification of ceramic enamel, etc., are powerless to distinguish fakes, and can only be identified by using some detection methods that destroy the surname or using a variety of complex test methods at the same time.
As a result, Song porcelain remained silent in the auction market for ten years, and it is only in recent years that the price has risen repeatedly.
(To be continued)