The three of them left the Forbidden City, Geng Baochang insisted that the two of them go to the house to sit, the home was very simple, the old man's life savings were used to collect porcelain, and finally all donated to the Forbidden City.

"Old decay can't accept the favor of Mr. in vain, this is a small object, please accept it!"

Geng Baochang handed over a blue and white pen holder, Wen Yiming took it curiously, and said in surprise after reading it: "This is the official kiln of the blank period?"

"I didn't expect that Mr. has a deep knowledge of porcelain!" Geng Baochang explained with a smile: "It's a pity that I donated all my collections to the museum a few years ago, and there is nothing left in my hand that can be taken out." Although the value is not precious, it also represents a piece of history and has commemorative value. ”

Wen Yiming stood up and excused himself: "Geng Lao is polite, the pen holder is too precious, and the younger generation does not dare to ......"

"Sir, please don't shirk!" Geng Baochang said with a straight face: "People live to our age, what else can't be seen through? ”

Ling Junsheng saw that he still wanted to excuse himself when he heard Yiming, and interjected: "The elder gives it, you can't give it away, accept it!"

Wen Yiming can only accept it, thanks to Geng Lao's gift, the so-called blank period, also known as the dark period, in the history of Jingdezhen porcelain, the three generations of orthodoxy, Jingtai, and Tianshun, that is, the period from 1436 to 1464. Because no porcelain with the year of the official kiln in the Three Dynasties period has been found, the porcelain seen is all produced by the private kiln, so it is called the blank period of the official kiln.

In the third year of Orthodoxy, it was forbidden for private kilns to make blue and white porcelain of the same style as official kilns, and in the twelfth year of orthodoxy, there was a ban on private kilns to make yellow, purple, red, green, blue, blue, and white blue and white porcelain.

In the first year of Tianshun, a lieutenant official was sent to Jingdezhen to supervise the burning of porcelain, and in the third year of Tianshun, there was an order to reduce the original 133,000 pieces of porcelain by 80,000 yuan.

In fact, the three dynasties of the Ming Dynasty all had official kiln productions, the main reason was that the imperial family had repeated conflicts due to the imperial throne, so the porcelain produced by the official kiln in Jingdezhen was inconvenient to write the year at this time, so the porcelain of the three dynasties was often assigned to the Xuande or Chenghua Dynasty in various museums or private collections.

Until the Jingdezhen Ceramics Research Institute found a batch of Ming Dynasty orthodox official kiln porcelain, and can be seen with Xuande, Chenghua different style. After all, there is not much information about the porcelain in the blank period, and the main feature is that the cloud pattern is quite heavy, the theme pattern is often covered with cloud pattern, and the blue and white are relatively gray.

More than ten years ago, the auction record, the Ming orthodox blue and white entangled branch treasure flower lotus petal pattern jar, sold for 1.058 million yuan. Ming orthodox blue and white entwined branch lotus travertine peony petal pattern double animal ear handicap jar, the transaction price is 2.3 million yuan.

Geng Baochang sighed: "This is my last year on the way to travel unintentionally to find a Ming Dynasty blank period porcelain, things should be orthodox eight years, the overall shape of the five peaks connected to the mountain cluster type, hollow, on one side of the mountain peak and the back of the pen holder each have a round hole, can be filled with water for water bowls. Behind the main peak of the pen holder, there is an orthodox year-old model. The glaze of the pen holder is thick, and the white is yellowish. ”

After running for a day today, the two old men were already tired, so they said goodbye and left Geng's hometown, and the two returned to their residences, Wen Yiming just wanted to rest, and suddenly received a call from Ling Tiancheng and asked him to meet.

"This is Huang Xuanlong, the master of the Jiansong Pavilion, the first person in the scholar's collection!"

Wen Yiming looked curiously at the old man in front of him, who was not amazing, in his early fifties, with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, he was the famous Lord of the Jiansong Pavilion?

Ling Tiancheng pulled Wen Yiming and introduced: "This is Mr. Wen, Master of Incense, Brother Xuanlong's favorite treasure is his collection." ”

Huang Xuanlong took the initiative to stretch out his hand and greeted warmly: "It's really a hero from ancient times, Mr. Wen is actually a master of incense?

Wen Yiming said a few polite words, everyone sat down again, Huang Xuanlong happened to see the pen holder, and when he asked if it was actually given by Geng Baochang, he was shocked, and he spoke more highly of Wen Yiming.

"Sure enough, it is a blank period of official kiln pen holders, this kind of treasure is only willing to give away by Old Man Geng, envy and envy!"

Ling Tiancheng looked at Huang Xuanlong's obsessive expression, and secretly laughed, today the other party came directly to find him, I don't know where I heard that Tiancheng had the Qianlong Imperial Study Room Eight-piece Set in his hand, as well as Ji Xiaolan's Ninety-Nine Fang Zhai inkstone, which was definitely a fatal attraction for Huang Xuanlong, who had pursued the Four Treasures of the Study all his life.

Today, I happened to hear Yiming and got another pen holder, which was given by the porcelain master Geng Baochang himself, which was incredible to Huang Xuanlong.

Jiansong Pavilion, in fact, is a plaque inscribed by the famous calligrapher Yi Bingshou at the end of the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, which made it famous but completely benefited from a special auction of the study room in the spring auction of Jiade in 2006, which was also the first special auction of the study room in China.

The owner of Jiansong Pavilion is the treasure island collector Huang Xuanlong, more than 30 years obsessed with the collection of stationery supplies, costing hundreds of millions, according to the joke, since the beginning of the collection, there is no longer a deposit at home, as soon as there is cash to buy good things back, if you want to take stock of his assets, you have to put a piece of pen holder inkstone out.

The most talked about by the majority of collectors is a piece of red sandalwood pen holder, the Ming Dynasty relief fish, dragon and sea beast red sandalwood pen holder, red sandalwood color heavy black, high relief carving painting dragon, lion, horse, tiger, elephant, rhino, fish, snail in and out of the turbulent waves, lifelike, domineering.

This pen holder originally belonged to the first player in the capital, Mr. Wang Shixiang, is a national first-class cultural relic, in the early years Huang Xuanlong went to Wang Shixiang's house to visit, at a glance the pen holder. Until the death of the old man in 2003, Jiade held a special session of Wang Shixiang, and Huang Xuanlong auctioned the coveted pen holder at a high price of 2.09 million yuan, and finally got his long-cherished wish.

In the 2012 Jiade Spring Auction, the Jiansong Pavilion Scholar's Treasure Play Session, all 35 lots were sold at high prices, with a total amount of 120 million yuan. In particular, the Ming Zhou made fish, dragon, sea beast, red sandalwood pen holder, after 30 minutes of fierce bidding, was finally sold for 55.2 million yuan, setting a new auction record for wooden pen holders.

Collectors can't help but sigh that a red sandalwood pen holder is actually sold for three red sandalwood beds at a sky-high price!

Ling Tiancheng looked at Huang Xuanlong and said with a smile: "Back then, I remember that a purple clay pot only eight centimeters high was auctioned at a sky-high price, 12.32 million yuan, which was the first purple clay pot in China to be sold at a price of 10 million yuan. How much did you get at that time? 350,000?"

"Less than 300,000!" Huang Xuanlong smiled and said: "At that time, I just arrived in Shanghai, I was only a 24-year-old hairy young man, I love purple sand and bamboo carving, Shanghai is very close to Yixing and Jiading, which is rich in bamboo carving, and it is also an important collection base in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. ”

"I took the pastries to Mrs. Gong for afternoon tea when I was fine, maybe we were destined, and the old man was also very kind to me, not only willing to impart the knowledge of collecting, but also regarded me as a family. ”

Speaking of this, Huang Xuanlong said emotionally: "This friendship with the Gong family has brought me great benefits, and I also have the opportunity to collect a few old Gong collections, even including the Gong family's very important Tianhuang frozen Dharma face wall statue and Baishou Mountain comet broken arm statue, these two small stone carvings less than ten centimeters high are from the hands of Yang Yuxuan, a famous stone carving master craftsman in the Kangxi Manufacturing Office. Later, the former was auctioned for 15.68 million yuan, and the latter was sold for 10.64 million yuan. ”