Riding the wind of rebirth

However, the shape of the bowl is very beautiful when viewed from the side. Different from later bowls, the mouth is slightly convergent, the belly is oblique, the feet are small, and it is shaped like a chicken heart.

The tire is a brown pottery body, with blue-gray glaze applied all over. The outer wall is not glazed to the bottom, exposing the bottom tire, and there are traces of digging and trimming on the outer bottom.

The glaze surface is very uneven, with black impurities and glaze shrinkage spots. There are very obvious craftsmanship flaws, but the color is restrained and soft. The style of the Song and Yuan Dynasties is very obvious, especially the inner wall of the small bowl, which has a purple-red color formed by kiln transformation. spot!

The area of ​​this colorful spot is only the size of a pink cabbage butterfly. Although the color is correct, it is not gorgeous. It is as low-key and soft as the blue-gray glaze in most areas of the bowl. To be precise, it should be a purple-gray.

Carefully tell that this purple spot is not completely purple. There is a blue "heart" inside. The blue inside is brighter and cleaner than the gray-blue color of the main body of the bowl. It seems to be protected by the purple circle and is not affected by it. The periphery is generally "stained" and very beautiful.

What is worth noting is the convergent mouth of the bowl. Due to the flow of glaze, the glaze here is very thin, revealing the color of the soil inside. The brown is neutralized by the gray and blue, and it actually appears as an orange rim, like a golden edge. , making the colors richer.

With these additions, even if the small bowl in front of you has many flaws such as black impurities, bubbles, and hollow spots in the glaze, it still cannot hide its beauty. Even these defects have become inevitable to decorate its simple and distant temperament. Embellishment gives it a different kind of charm.

"It is indeed a good thing that opens the door." Mr. Qi took the first step and carefully admired the small bowl, then handed it to Mr. Wang: "Old Wang, take a look."

"Can you get gold?" Mr. Wang put on his glasses.

"I think it's better to be conservative and go to Yuan." Qi Lao said.

But after Mr. Wang finished reading it, he said: "I think it is more appropriate to end it in the Jin Dynasty."

"Oh?" Zhou Zhi suddenly became interested. This kind of controversy, especially the controversy between big bosses, is the easiest way to increase knowledge. Coupled with Gonghuo's mentality of not being afraid of big things, he immediately asked: "Two Please tell me your reasons."

Unexpectedly, the two old men were not fooled at all: "See for yourself and then speak first."

After speaking, Mr. Wang also gave an order to Mr. Ma: "You should also take a look."

After the two of them had seen it, Zhou Zhi said: "This small bowl, I prefer the late Song Dynasty and early Jin Dynasty."

Mr. Qi didn't take it seriously: "Where are you, Xiaoma?"

Mr. Ma scratched his head: "I feel... it's still Yuan, right?"

"Tell me the reasons." Mr. Wang stretched out his index finger and tapped the table.

"Then let me talk first?" Zhou Zhi said: "We might as well list the characteristics of Song Jun and Yuan Jun, and then compare the characteristics of this small bowl to get a middle value of change to see if it looks like it came from the Song Dynasty. To which stage in the meta-transition.”

"So what is the difference between Jun porcelain of the Song Dynasty and Jun porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty? It can be analyzed from several perspectives: glaze color, body soil, flowing glaze, and kiln change."

“The glaze of Jun porcelain in the Song Dynasty was thick and even, while the glaze of Jun porcelain in the Yuan Dynasty was thick and drooping;”

"The purple color of Jun porcelain in the Song Dynasty permeates the whole body, and the purple color of Jun porcelain in the Yuan Dynasty forms the shape of objects;"

"The Jun porcelain of the Song Dynasty has uniform shades, while the Jun porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty may have streaks in the thick glaze areas, and water ripples are still visible in shallow areas;" "The Jun porcelain of the Song Dynasty has the phenomenon of 'purple mouth iron feet' showing the body, while the Jun porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty does not No;"

"The 'brown room' of the Jun porcelain of the Song Dynasty, that is, there are brown impurity particles around the holes of the shrunken glaze, but this does not exist in the Jun porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty;"

“The unglazed bottom of Jun porcelain in the Song Dynasty was decorated with sesame paste glaze, but this phenomenon did not occur in Jun porcelain in the Yuan Dynasty;”

"Song Jun prepared the colored glaze using a blending method without adding milk. Therefore, the pigment and glaze juice could not be fully fused. After the fire, they appeared in a state of separation, forming a unique 'earthworm mud pattern'."

"The method of preparing the color glaze for Jun porcelain in the Yuan Dynasty was to mix and then grind the milk, so that the pigment glaze juice must be fused, so there is no such feature as 'earthworms running through the mud'."

"It is also because of the harmony and fluidity of the glaze water that the glaze layer falls and accumulates in different phenomena. Song Jun's glaze is not very fluid, so the glaze often does not reach the bottom; while Yuan Jun's glaze layer is highly fluid, so the glaze often falls to the bottom of the vessel. feature."

"Master Ma, do you have anything else to add?"

"I've finished all the answers for you!" Mr. Ma rolled his eyes at Zhou Zhi and expressed dissatisfaction: "There is one more thing you didn't mention, that is, the purple color of the Jun glaze in the Song and Jin dynasties was formed by natural kiln deformation, and the Yuan and Yuan dynasties basically made it deliberately. Glazes of different compositions are applied to different areas of the porcelain, hoping to create a noticeable effect during firing.”

"It's difficult for you." Mr. Wang agreed with the two people's summaries and Zhou Zhi's ideas and methods: "Then tell me the reasons for your respective generations."

This is where the identification of cultural relics is most tested. As the saying goes, "what you see on paper is only shallow in the end." If the characteristics of the artifact are very obvious and all the characteristics described in the book are consistent, then the identification of cultural relics will not be so difficult.

When you actually need to apply many characteristics to real objects, you will find that they are often specious.

For example, this is the small bowl now.

Zhou Zhi turned over the small bowl again: "There is no sauce glaze on the bottom of this small bowl, which is a characteristic of the Yuan Dynasty. Without sauce glaze, there would be no 'iron feet', but it also has the obvious characteristics of an 'iron mouth' , it only accounts for half of Song Jun's 'Purple Mouth and Iron Feet'."

"But the glaze does not hang down to the ground, the earthworm mud patterns are more obvious, and the presence of brown cells and impurities are all characteristics of Song Jun."

"However, the glaze of Jun porcelain in the Song Dynasty is thick and even, and the glaze of this bowl is thick and hanging; the purple of Song Jun permeates the whole, and the purple of this bowl takes the shape of a small leaf-shaped circle; the shades of Song Jun are all the same, and the glaze of this bowl is thicker. There are shallow ripples in the stripes, but they are more obvious than the patterns of earthworms walking in the mud." Master Ma shook his head: "These are the characteristics of Yuan Jun."

"So it is neither the Song Dynasty nor the Yuan Dynasty. The chicken-heart shape conforms to the characteristics of the northern wares, so it is a product of the 'transitional period' of Jun kilns in the north," Zhou Zhi said more and more confidently: "The transitional period of Jun kilns in the north was the Song Dynasty. During the Jin Dynasty, after the place of origin was occupied by the Jin Dynasty, the kiln output underwent some significant changes from that of Song Jun, but overall, it is still closer to Song Jun."

"In the south, during the transition period, this was a firing method that was restored at the kilns in the south of the Yangtze River after some kiln workers moved south after the northern kilns withered away. It is generally closer to Yuan Jun."

"I think this small bowl has the characteristics of Song Jun and Yuan Jun, but considering the shape of the vessel, I think it should be an object from the Song and Jin transitional periods."

"What's your reason?" Mr. Qi asked Mr. Ma again.

"Elbow looks at this thing from an academic point of view. I am different. I look at it from a shopping point of view." Ma Ye shook his head and smiled: "Only based on the latest characteristics that appeared on an artifact, this small bowl, obviously You won’t suffer the most if you buy it at a low price.”

"Hahahaha..." Everyone was delighted by Master Ma's shameless statement.