Riding the wind of rebirth

"However, these are not up to the standard of the secret color tribute porcelain of the Famen Temple. Almost all of them are folk items. I use them for daily research, so I didn't put them here."

"There are a few other items, which should be objects from the Qiong Kiln in Dayi, Tang Dynasty. Among them, a white porcelain lotus leaf skimming plate is an absolute treasure. However, because the kiln mouth is too special, it is still under study and has not been displayed. .”

"Really? What does Dayi kiln porcelain look like?"

"The color glaze texture is similar to that of Xing kiln, and the shape and carvings are similar to Yue kiln."

"Let me see!" Lin Wanqiu couldn't bear it anymore.

Zhou Zhi opened the safe and took out the lotus leaf skimmer.

"At first glance, it really looks like a Xing kiln." Lin Wanqiu turned the plate over and found that there was no inscription on the bottom.

Porcelain in the Tang Dynasty had not yet formed an official kiln system, and the high-quality goods in the Xing kiln that were offered to the palace generally carried two types of inscriptions.

One is to enter the royal internal treasury, which will carry the "Ying" or "Daying" money.

However, the white porcelain of the Ding Kiln of the Five Dynasties that is similar to it rarely bears the word "official".

These inscriptions are all picked out by porcelain workers with tools before firing, and then fired in the furnace, because the tire quality, firing temperature and other information can be seen from the inscriptions, which is easier to identify.

The plate that Lin Wanqiu sees now has broken away from the habit of using make-up soil to decorate porcelain embryos in the early Tang Dynasty. The relatively white soil is used to directly fire the light gray body, which is an important feature similar to Yue kiln porcelain.

However, judging from the fineness of the fetal soil, it is closer to Xing Kiln.

From the perspective of shape, this plate is a skimming plate, shaped like a lotus leaf, and the veins of the lotus leaf are also secretly carved to make it more natural.

As far as the shape of the plate is concerned, it is similar to the shape of the lotus leaf plate of the Yue kiln, but the carving of dark flowers was more popular in the north in the early Tang Dynasty.

The rest is the glaze color and firing process. The glaze color is also similar to Xing kiln white porcelain. The firing process is more advanced than the early Hutian kiln's overlay firing process, and some are backward than the later branch firing process. Slightly glazed firing process.

Generally speaking, soil treatment, embryo making, and glaze adjustment have all reached a fairly high level in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, but in terms of furnace temperature and glaze application, they are still slightly inferior to the fine products offered in the same period.

"It's very strange." Lin Wanqiu turned the plate and looked at it: "All the characteristics come from the two kilns of the Tang Dynasty in the north and the south, but they are combined."

"There are records in the history of Qiong Kiln, which say that it is rich in white porcelain." Zhou Zhi said: "But among the Tang Dynasty porcelain unearthed in Qionglai, most of them are non-white porcelain. Now some researchers believe that it is another kind of porcelain. The kiln mouth of the Song Dynasty - the distant ancestor of the Changsha kiln."

"Because in the later Qiong kiln porcelain, a lot of celadon stippling painting decorations were found, which are completely in the same line as the Changsha kiln, and the stippling painting technology of the Changsha kiln became the originator of the later porcelain painting technology."

"However, the Changsha kiln and most of the Qiong kiln porcelains have a loose body and are decorated with makeup soil. Compared with this Qiong kiln skimming plate, the manufacturing process has undergone serious technological regression."

"Are there any white porcelains from the Qiong Kiln similar to this dish?"

"Yes," Zhou Zhi said, "but they are all fragments, the complete one, and this is the one you are holding at present."

"Qiong kiln porcelain should be regarded as the first to use copper and iron to color porcelain, and the three-color craftsmanship is second to none, and has been influential until the Ming Dynasty."

"It's a pity that the entrance of this kiln was extensively excavated and destroyed by the 36st Army stationed by Tang Shi in the 21th year of the Republic of China, and all the surrounding ancient tomb sites were ruined. Up to now, it has almost no archaeological value."

"After the liberation, the government collected several pieces. Sichuan University also has several green and white glazed and three-colored collections. As for the pure white glazed ones, Chuanbo has a remnant of a parrot cup and a fragment of a sunflower plate."

"Then it's hard to set a price." Lin Wanqiu said, "If you compare it with the auction price of Xing Kiln Daying Porcelain, it's only about a million Hong Kong dollars."

"That's why I didn't show it." Zhou Zhi said, "Well, in fact, the kind of kiln with thick glaze dots and ribbons in the Qiong kiln can also be regarded as the 'Tang Dynasty Jun kiln', right? I will build a few Shenhou kilns, Lushan kilns or The flower-glazed porcelain from Yuzhou Kiln is used as a facade, and it is older than the Song and Jin Dynasties, so it is considered complete?"

Zhou Zhi said that these three kiln mouths are the originator of Chinese floral glazes, which began in the Tang Dynasty. They are fired in exactly the same way as Qiong Kiln's floral glazed porcelain. The base soil is light yellow, the fetal bone is thick, and the glaze is thick. , There are many kinds of plaques such as moon white, off-white, blue and so on.

Affected by the temperature and reducing environment of the kiln, the fired tires are crimson yellow or light yellow, with many irregular plaques and traces of flow, and occasionally have the characteristics of kiln transformation.

No matter from the shape, glaze type and glaze color, we can see the relationship between the glazed porcelain of these kilns and the Song and Jin Jun kilns.

After the famous kilns of the Song Dynasty became popular, the Jun kilns began to claim that "a family with wealth is not as good as a piece of Jun kiln", so some collectors began to give the glazed porcelain of the three kilns the good name of "Tang Dynasty Jun porcelain" to hype.

"Haha, if you're willing to lie to yourself like this, you can." Lin Wanqiu made Zhou Zhi laugh: "If you really have such an idea, it's really a benefit without cost. But are you pursuing 'hanging purple and red'?"

The so-called "Tang Jun" is usually black with blue spots, Lin Wanqiu is the one who does not open the pot.

"It's already Tang Jun, what else are you looking for?" Zhou Zhi also joked with Lin Wanqiu: "It's not far from the three-colored bright vessel."

Lin Wanqiu also made Zhou Zhi laugh, and after laughing for a while, she asked, "What are your arrangements for tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow?" Zhou Zhi was taken aback, "Go to school tomorrow."

"Is it necessary for you to take that study?" Lin Wanqiu said, "How about we let Zhang Cheng take him to search the house? Fu Xia also said that she can play with me."

"It's not that good, is it?" Zhou Zhi hesitated: "The Department of Computer Science is also a mess. Tomorrow, my eldest brother will visit the Computer Research Center of Shu University to listen to the work report of the Han Word Library. Even if I don't have classes, I have to go there. while working..."

"Is it as exaggerated as you said? Fu Xia records programs all day long, and I don't think it will delay her graduate studies?"

"She's called not doing business properly." Zhou Zhi disagreed: "Why don't you come to Sichuan University tomorrow, and let Tenzin Fuxia take us to the museum."

"Get free labor to help with the appraisal?" Lin Wanqiu gave Zhou Zhi a blank look: "Your abacus is quite accurate!"

"The collection of Shu University is also quite impressive." Zhou Zhi introduced sincerely: "There are scrolls of Buddha statues in the Song Dynasty, "Landscape Map" by Huang Gongwang and Wang Meng, "Small Portrait of Wen Zhengming" drawn by Zhu Wenxin, Jinnong in Qing Dynasty The hall of lacquer books, Zhang Daqian's huge "Pine and Cloud Map of Huangshan Mountain", paintings of Bada Shanren, Zhang Zhao's running script and other good things."

"Oh, by the way, there is another set of albums that you will definitely be very interested in, Liu Yin's Cao Chong Tu album."

"Liu Yin? Who is it?"

"Change your name and you'll know, Liu Rushi."

"Then let's go to Shu University tomorrow!" Lin Wanqiu was really hooked.