Riding the wind of rebirth

Even so, Zhou Zhi only felt grateful in his heart. If nothing else, it was already a huge favor for Anzhai to inform Zhou Zhi in advance of the Fujiwara family's intention to sell six hand scrolls.

Although Anzhai Eiichi was very happy to see Zhou Zhi today, he was suffering from old illness after all. He was already very tired after talking so much. The personal secretary and the hospital nurse had been in and out several times. In the end, he just stood at the door and kept rolling his eyes at Zhou Zhi. Remind him that the visiting hours have passed and he needs to be self-conscious.

"Then make arrangements as soon as possible." Eiichi Anzhai said: "Then ask the secretary to take you to Sakamoto, and wait for the arrival of the artwork in a few days, which will be just in time for appraisal."

"Yes, I will start immediately." Zhou Zhi bowed to An Zhaiying: "Thank you very much, sir, and please take care of yourself."

After exiting the Anzhai ward, Zhou Zhi immediately picked up the mobile phone and dialed a number: "Master Ma, come to live, come to live!"

Eiichi Ataka's collection is stored at the Osaka Municipal Museum of Oriental Ceramics. In addition to the part that has been donated, there is also a dedicated art warehouse here for the remaining collection of Ataka.

Coming here, Zhou Zhi is like a mouse falling into a rice vat.

Osaka Municipal Museum of Oriental Ceramics was established in 1982. In addition to the more than a thousand pieces of Chinese and Korean porcelain collected by Eiichi Anzhai, there are also Korean ceramics collected by another collector Li Bingchang, as well as many works by Shoji Hamada, Persian pottery, snuff bottles, etc. donated by various circles, which eventually became An important collection of Chinese and Korean porcelain.

Zhou Zhi currently has a large collection of Tang porcelain, Five Dynasties porcelain, and Song porcelain. In addition to the famous five kiln-kiln fine products, except for the Song Dynasty Jun kiln porcelain, there are also a large number of sub-first-class kiln porcelain such as Yaozhou kiln, Xing kiln, Kiln, Hutian Kiln, Dayi Kiln, Longchang Kiln, Longquan Kiln and other fine porcelain.

For example, at famous kiln entrances like Ding Kiln, the careful collection can even be said to be unique in the world. There are white Ding, black Ding, black flower Ding on white background, and even extremely rare purple Ding.

Even for the very rare Jun kiln, he also has imitations of official kilns from the third and third dynasties of the Qing Dynasty, imitations from the Ming Dynasty, and purple-spotted Jun kiln bowls from the Jin Dynasty, which are very close to the era of the Song Dynasty.

However, there is one famous kiln entrance of Song Dynasty porcelain that is his shortcoming. Not only does he not collect it, but he has very little contact with it, and that is the Jianzhou kiln.

Jianzhou kiln porcelain is a product of the tea ceremony of the Song Dynasty. The carcass is an iron body made of purple clay. The glaze is very thick, with a dark base color, mostly black, and is dotted with kiln-stained spots of various colors with metallic luster. and texture.

The tea ceremony in the island country was inherited from the Song Dynasty. The later matcha actually originated from this tea ceremony. The soup color is thick, white and foamy, and full of changes. It was very popular among the scholar-bureaucrats and maids in the Song Dynasty. It was known for its fantastic changes in foam patterns. It's called "tea fight".

Because the color of tea is light white, it is best to use dark, thick and heat-insulating tea utensils. Building a kiln is the best tea utensil.

According to the "Kuntai Kan Left and Right Account" written during the Muromachi shogunate period in Shimakuni, which is the early and mid-Ming Dynasty in China, "The obsidian-stained jianzhan is the highest divine item, worth ten thousand pieces of silk; the oil-dropped jianzhan is the second "A heavy treasure, worth five thousand bolts of silk;" At that time, only those who were already extremely wealthy, such as daimyo and shoguns and other nobles at the top of the pyramid, were eligible to possess it.

So far, there are only four top-notch national treasures in the island country. Three of them are obsidian, which are stored in Japan's Shijiado, Osaka's Fujita Museum of Art, and Kyoto's Daitokuji Ryukoin. The other is an oil drop, which is here.

The so-called obsidian change means that the pattern shape is mainly hollow circles, with colored filaments. As the light and angle change, the body of the lamp will show different colored halos.

It is divided into four layers from the inside to the outside. The innermost layer is like a snow globe pattern. These patterns are not a whole, but are composed of many small silver spots of different sizes loosely gathered together; the outside is like black paint. The background color is like oil spots and is surrounded by blue and white markings, which separate it from the outermost dark glaze base.

Each layer is mixed with crystals that are invisible to the naked eye. When viewed under light, a metallic rainbow luster can be seen, and this luster can also change with the change of angle, just like dynamic starlight. Therefore it is called "Yao Bian". The Yaobian Tianmu lamp is extremely precious. How precious is it? It is so precious that apart from the three complete examples in the island country, there is only one fragment in the Hangzhou Museum in the world.

Just because the kiln-stained stains on the bottom of the piece were intact, it became an extremely rare specimen in the country that no one would ever see.

Compared with obsidian, oil droplets refer to numerous small golden yellow or silvery gray metallic luster spots evenly distributed on the black base glaze, like boiling oil droplets. Hence the name.

However, the outer layer of the oil drop spots formed is one less layer than the obsidian spots, and the changing area of ​​the crystal glaze starlight is much narrower than the obsidian spot area.

Even so, it is an extremely rare treasure, and the surviving complete oil drop vessels of the Song Dynasty are also extremely rare.

The island country divides important cultural relics into three levels. The first level is called national treasure, the second level is called important cultural property, or important cultural heritage, and the third level is called important artwork.

There are only thirty oil-drop lamps in the world, among which three are famous in the island country. The only oil-drop lamp designated as a "national treasure" is now in Zhou Zhi's hands.

This treasure does not require any appraisal by Zhou Zhi. It does not belong to Eiichi Anzai at all, but is the wealth of Osaka City. However, based on Anzai's reputation in the art museum, Zhou Zhi took his VIP card and wanted to take a look. The museum staff not only agreed with the treasures in the museum, but also enthusiastically sent the collection to the appraisal room so that he could have a thorough look.

Such an opportunity was so rare. There were three varnished lamps for him to inspect in the Osaka Municipal Museum of Oriental Porcelain, including one national treasure and two important cultural properties.

Oil drop lamp is actually the name of the island country. In China, this type of jianzhan is called "partridge spot".

Only now has Zhou Zhi discovered that the glaze is not only difficult to imitate. The fetal bones are also very distinctive and almost impossible to imitate.

"My eyes are opened, my eyes are really opened..." It was already late at night, but Zhou Zhi still stayed tirelessly in the appraisal room with excellent conditions, looking at the treasure in his hand with the light and magnifying glass.

The fetal bones of Jianzhan cups from the Song Dynasty are so special. The thick glaze is wrapped around the fetal feet of the cup like a thin coat. It even forms a magma-like accumulation above the fetal feet, but completely exposes the fetal bones at the bottom. .

The fetal bones appear very rough, and the cracks formed over time have made them look like a piece of cracked iron. This is the most iron-like fetal bone that Zhou Zhi has ever seen.

The fetal bones of the Jun kiln are actually also iron-colored, but compared to the cup in my hand, it is obviously on the dry side and not as "smooth" as the cup after it is wrapped in paste.

Similarly, Ding kilns often apply a purple-brown "protective glaze" on the bottom. However, compared with the fetal bones of Jianzhan, it is "oil but not moist" and "floating but not sinking". It cannot have the characteristics of Jianzhan. Effect.

This is the great charm of handed down items. They were introduced to the island country from the Song Dynasty and were appreciated, rubbed and maintained by generations of people. They have been passed down to this day thousands of years later. Such objects, with their iron-like undercarriage, are in the eyes of Zhou Zhi , its beauty is no less than its colorful glaze like oil droplets.

The blessing of thousands of hands has created this priceless treasure that cannot be imitated. (End of chapter)