Chapter 278: Black Porcelain
ɦ 䣺 2013-11-1617:39:08279 Chapter 279 Black Porcelain
When Xu Yang stood up, he saw Gao Boli and Dongfang Rui waving at him, which meant to let him go, these few can be said to be the heavyweights of today's exchange meeting, and they have a great reputation in the antique world, and the juniors at the same table are jealous. In their eyes, there is no difference between Xu Yang and laymen.
"Hello Mr. Gao, are you feeling better? I haven't visited you because I've been busy lately, it's really rude. Hello Rui Lao, I didn't expect you to come to this exchange meeting, if I knew that you and Gao Lao were both here, I wouldn't have to come alone. Xu Yang arrived at Gao Bo and said hello before leaving the table.
"Hahaha, I really didn't notice that you kid is really like someone in our industry when you wear this. It's a little handsome. Dongfang Rui said jokingly.
Xu Yang was a little embarrassed to be said. Gao Boli said to Xu Yang: "Come, sit here, I also let you come over when I saw you there just now." Talk to us old guys. ”
After Xu Yang sat down next to Gao Boli, the old man Hong stared at Xu Yang with his eyes like a sharp sword. Xu Yang was also a little uncomfortable when he was looked at, how could this person look at people like this.
"Your name is Xu Yang? When I was chatting with Old Man Gao just now, I talked about you, Old Man Gao is very respectful, so I asked you to come over and test your thoughts, do you dare to take my test." "Old man Hong speaks very straight, he is more like a martial artist than the antique industry.
Xu Yang's brain couldn't turn around, you said that you old guys just chat, you have nothing to say what I do, such a day's exchange meeting will test me?
"You kid don't dare, right, or you are a straw bag silver-like wax spearhead, which is useless. It's rare for the old man Gao to praise you so much. "I knew that there was a suspicion of agitating the law here, but Xu Yang had to take it. Men can't let people say that at any time.
"Since the seniors want to test the knowledge of the kid, the kid has no choice but to sacrifice his ugliness. Of course, the little knowledge I learned may not be in your eyes, but I hope that your seniors will give me more advice!"
Xu Yang stood up and respectfully saluted to everyone, and at this time, someone had already brought a few things, which were indeed brought by these antique experts today. Because tomorrow's exchange meeting is a time for everyone to take out their beloved collections and communicate together. It just so happened that someone brought it today, and I heard that Elder Gao and Elder Hong were going to use it to test the young people, so of course these people took it out immediately.
"There are a few things here. Just now, the old man Gao said, you kid is not much worse than us old guys in jade and porcelain, so I'll test you now. Let's talk about this porcelain first!"
Hong Lao picked up a collection, in fact, when Xu Yang went to Gao Lao's place, someone had already noticed here, and now seeing the incense burner that Hong Lao picked up, there were already people guessing what was going on.
Xu Yang noticed that the incense burner was dark all over. Black shiny. After taking the incense burner, Xu Yang first used his own knowledge to identify, according to its characteristics, Xu Yang can conclude that this is a piece of black porcelain, which is indeed genuine. It's just that compared with the black porcelain of the Song Dynasty at its peak, this incense burner has some shortcomings.
Everyone looked at Xu Yang, and they also wanted to know what this black porcelain Xu Yang would say. After Xu Yang saw it, he had already concluded that this was an imitation of Song black porcelain from the Jin and Yuan dynasties according to some characteristics. Open the ability, and the same as the one you identified, it is indeed a black porcelain from the Jin Kingdom period.
"This is a black porcelain incense burner from the Jin Dynasty. "It takes about ten minutes from Xu Yang picking up the incense burner to Xu Yang's identification, which is not long, nor short, and the most important thing is that it is not very difficult to identify the age of the object. So Hong Lao asked with some dissatisfaction:
"Then tell me how you identified it, kid. ”
Xu Yang nodded with a smile and said, "First of all, the color of this incense burner is dark all over, and there is a luster in the black. Only black porcelain in a monochrome glaze is present in this way in porcelain.
Black porcelain is also called Tianmu porcelain. Porcelain with a black high-temperature glaze. Black porcelain has appeared in the Shang and Zhou dynasties in China. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the black porcelain fired in Shangyu kiln in Zhejiang Province was glazed thick and uniform. The black porcelain of the Deqing kiln in the Eastern Jin Dynasty is represented by the black glaze produced by the Deqing kiln in Zhejiang, the glaze is as thick as a pile of grease, and the color is as black as lacquer.
In the Song Dynasty, a large number of black porcelain varieties appeared, the black porcelain produced by the Ding kiln in Hebei Province, the fetal bone was white and the glaze was black and shiny; the black porcelain fired in the Fujian kiln was precipitated in the glaze because of the heavy iron content and the longer heat preservation time when the kiln was fired, forming a black crystalline glaze such as no milli grain, oil drop pattern, and Yao change, which was quite precious. The tortoiseshell spots, wood leaf patterns, paper-cut appliqué black porcelain of Jizhou kiln in Jiangxi Province and the black porcelain produced by porcelain kilns in Henan and Shanxi are also very distinctive.
Black porcelain was produced in the south, but in the later history, the center of the production of black porcelain was in the north, although the black porcelain of Fujian Jianyao and Jiangxi Jizhou kiln in the Song Dynasty was also more famous, but it is not seen that there is a relationship between the inheritance of the early Deqing black porcelain, it is believed that the prosperity of these two southern black porcelain factories has its special historical and cultural background. The different black porcelain styles in the north and south are even more different. Throughout the production and development of black porcelain, black porcelain in different regions is produced separately, and then slowly influenced each other. According to the recorded archaeological data, Shanxi black porcelain must have appeared in the Tang Dynasty, and has a considerable scale, the kiln sites for firing black porcelain at least Hunyuan kiln, Pingding kiln, Hejin kiln, Xiangning kiln, Jiaocheng kiln, Jiexiu kiln, Taiyuan kiln.
First of all, let's talk about the characteristics of black porcelain, first: the glaze color is black and moisturizing, the flow of glaze is larger, and the makeup soil is generally applied.
Second: the decoration techniques have scratching, defloration and printing, with the most representative defloration, after glazing the decorative pattern, the removed part is white, setting off the black pattern. The pattern is the same as the white porcelain theme, the layout is sparse, and the lines are concise. There is a kind of ornamentation that is to cut out a small circle, leave a small flower in the middle, and draw some patterns in the open space, which is rare in other porcelain kilns.
And this incense burner whether from the oxidation reaction or from the tire glaze can be determined to be this genuine undoubtedly, the only regret is that this intermediary Jin Dynasty period to protect the Song Cizhou kiln of a black magnetic incense burner, if it is the black porcelain of the Song Cizhou kiln, the value will be improved, but in fact, we collect antiques, not for the so-called value, we are interested in the history hidden behind these antiques. ”
Xu Yang talked eloquently, and it can be said that he talked about the history of black glaze and the last characteristics of its provenance. The old people at the table, as well as the people around who were watching here, also nodded, in this regard, Xu Yang's basic skills are very solid, look at what Xu Yang said, although there are some meanings of reading from the book, but I have to say that Xu Yang's words are comparable to textbooks.
Hong Lao didn't want to let go of Xu Yang, nodded and said: "You kid still has two brushes, those people here you said know it, now I have a question, you just said that this incense burner is the black porcelain of the Jin Dynasty imitation Song Cizhou kiln, do you kid have any evidence? Even if it is imitation of gold, how do you know that it is imitation of Cizhou kiln." ”
In fact, these questions of Hong Lao are what many people present want to ask. The expert in the identification of antiques is not as simple as imagined, everyone imagines that it may be someone else to take a collection to identify, you take it and look at it, and then identify the source, can reach this level, that is a master-level character. The whole country can be counted. And more experts are on the one hand to identify and verify, and only after reading a book can they determine the authenticity of the object.
Xu Yang is now a little let go, and said with a confident smile: "First of all, let's talk about the characteristics of Cizhou kiln." Cizhou kiln is the largest folk kiln system in the ancient north of our country, and it is also a famous folk porcelain kiln, the kiln site is in the area of Guantai Town and Pengcheng Town in Cixian County, Handan, Hebei Province, Cixian County belongs to Cizhou in the Song Dynasty, hence the name. According to the investigation, Cizhou kiln was created and burned in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, and reached its peak, the Southern Song Dynasty, Liao Jinyuan, Ming and Qing dynasties still continue to fire, the firing has a long history, has a strong vitality, and there are many relics that have been handed down.
The type and ornamentation of Cizhou kiln are popular among the people, and the scope of influence is wide and develops rapidly. Cizhou kiln is famous for the production of white glaze and black color porcelain, black and white contrast, strong and distinct, the pattern is very eye-catching, carving, scratching, ticking, filling color and using both, and creatively the techniques of Chinese painting, in the form of pattern composition, skillfully and vividly painted on porcelain, with fascinating artistic charm. It created a new way of porcelain painting and decoration in China, and also laid the foundation for the great development of blue and white and painted porcelain in Jingdezhen after the Song Dynasty.
Let me talk about it specifically, first of all, let's talk about the tire glaze: the carcass of Cizhou kiln uses a relatively special local kaolin, the structure is loose, the panning is not fine, the particles are coarse, there are often unburned pores and iron spots, the aluminum content is high, and the content of iron, titanium and other coloring impurities in the raw materials is high, and the tire color is gray-white or gray-brown. Cizhou kiln also often uses cosmetic clay applied to the surface of the tire, the earliest cosmetic clay is a mud made of white high-quality porcelain clay, in order to adapt to the coarse porcelain fine work, to cover up the unevenness of the carcass surface, so as to improve the appearance quality of porcelain and the whiteness and brightness of the glaze.
The firing method is mostly sagger, and the firing temperature is about 1250C. The glaze is generally hung in the vessel. Bowls and plates are stacked by firing method, and there are five strip-shaped burn marks in the vessel. The lap feet of bottles and cans and the bottom of pillows are often unglazed.
In terms of modeling, the most prominent feature of Cizhou kiln is that it is simple and rough, and the large utensils are bold and majestic, dignified and simple, and have spirit. Small utensils are exquisitely made, plates, bowls, and saucers pay attention to dexterity and practicality, the shape and proportion, the weight is moderate, the lines are clean and neat, and the shape and decoration can achieve perfect harmony and unity......"
Xu Yang was talking eloquently there, just like Teacher Shi was lecturing, and slowly a large number of people had gathered around.