Riding the wind of rebirth

Zhou Zhi pointed to the box and said, "I don't think the second brother's ambition is here, otherwise he wouldn't have given up such a good learning opportunity."

"It doesn't matter if you have an old man now, but in the future...if you come to get eyeballs a few times, you may go bankrupt."

Mr. Liu was startled, apparently he hadn't thought that much before.

Inside the porcelain is a small Guanyin vase from the Jiaqing Dynasty, "Hundreds of flowers never fall to the ground". Filling, not revealing the glaze color expression technique of the bottom of the porcelain,

This kind of decoration mostly draws peonies and other large flower patterns in the center of the porcelain, and various small flowers such as chrysanthemum, camellia, rose, lotus, lily, morning glory, etc. are used as foils around the porcelain. On the whole porcelain, it symbolizes the good omen of a hundred flowers blooming.

The shape, size, and front and side of the flowers are all perfect, and they are extremely dense.

Although it is said that "a hundred flowers never fall to the ground", black or white ground can still be seen at the edge, and black ground is the most precious.

This theme was created in Yongzheng, flourished in Qianlong, and perfected in Jiaqing.

The "Guide to Antiques" written by Zhao Ruzhen, a famous connoisseur in the Qing Dynasty, stated: "Jiaqing... There are not many good products, but Wanhua porcelain is commonly known as Baihua, and it is the best time at this time."

Compared with the Qianlong Dynasty, the "Wanhua Brocade" of the Jiaqing Period, in addition to inheriting the fineness and orderliness of the previous dynasty, also paid special attention to overcoming the complicated piles of the Qianlong Period, and tended to be sparse and simple again, without losing the magnificence and elegance. At the same time, it also reveals a bit of elegance, elegance and beauty, which belonged to the few fine porcelains of the Jiaqing Dynasty.

However, in the eyes of Zhou Zhi, who admires Song Feng's aesthetics more, the art form of "a hundred flowers never fall to the ground" is not his taste, and he handed it back to Manager Fei after appreciating it.

On the contrary, it was a smaller brother glaze fish basket statue, which attracted Zhou Zhi's interest.

Ge Kiln is one of the five famous kilns in Song Dynasty.According to historical records, there were two brothers from the Zhang family in Longquan, Zhejiang in the Southern Song Dynasty. They both made pottery, and each owned a kiln.

Ge glaze porcelain is distinguished by color, and there are moon white, gray yellow, pink green, gray green, putty, and deep and light beige.Its most notable feature is that the glaze is thick and delicate, with a lustrous luster, like cream;
If placed under a microscope, it can be seen that the air bubbles contained in the enamel are like polyfoam beads;
There are cracks in the greasy glaze surface with different sizes, or dense circles or scattered ice-crack-like reticulation patterns. The light yellow reticulations are like gold wires, and the thin black ones are like iron wires. The two are intertwined, so it is called It is called "golden thread".

The characteristic of Ge kiln porcelain is that the inside and outside are covered with glaze, which is uniform, smooth and crystal-clear.Belonging to the celadon series, the glaze surface is thick and moist, and the glaze surface has large and small patterns.

In addition, Ge kilns in the Song Dynasty had a firm and thin body, and the edge of the porcelain mouth was narrow. The thick glaze could not be preserved on the edge of the porcelain mouth. You can see the delicate and solid black tire under the glaze, so it is called "purple mouth".

Ge kiln in Song Dynasty was favored by people in later generations. There were many imitators in Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, each with their own style.

Emperor Qianlong was particularly fond of admiring Ge kilns in the Song Dynasty, and wrote a poem praising them: "The round iron feet and the ice cracks on the waist, Xuancheng heels this husband and flowers."

The "Zikou" has become one of the best Songge kiln porcelains. There have been many imitations of Songge kilns in subsequent dynasties, but none of them have been able to achieve this unique skill in firing.

Due to the limitations of the craftsmanship at that time, there were no large wares for Ge kiln porcelain, and the wares were mainly bottles, furnaces, washers, bowls, and jars.

There is still an unsolved case about Ge Kiln.

In the 60s, the cultural relics and archaeological unit of Zhejiang Province excavated several kiln sites such as the Longquan Kiln, and found a lot of black-bodied celadon, most of which were porcelain for daily life.

However, its shape, body color, glaze and pattern are different from the handed down Ge kiln, and the most notable thing is that this batch of porcelain does not use support nails.

On the contrary, Ge Kiln porcelain handed down from generation to generation, the texture of gold wire and iron wire has a different thickness from natural extension, and there are important traces of purple mouth and support nails, so it can be concluded that the historically valuable " The place of origin of the handed down "Ge Kiln" artifacts is not in the few kiln sites that have been discovered today.

Where exactly?It is still a mystery so far, yet to be clarified by cultural relics and archaeologists.

This fish basket statue is also a very small utensil, which can be half-held with one hand, and it is very comfortable to hold in the hand. Although it is named "Zun", it is more likely to be a "water injection" used for holding water in the study. ".

In other words, no matter what it was used for in the past, it eventually became a "water note" on the literati's desk.

The small objects are perfectly preserved, and there is a layer of fine patina on them. The soft light of the ancient porcelain is very obvious, and it can be seen that they have been played with by countless former owners.

And Zhou Zhi thinks that this small object is very worthy of this treasure, because the shape of the fish basket matches the purple mouth and the mesh-shaped gold wire, it really complements each other and is very cute.

Zhou Zhi took Manager Fei's watch repair magnifying glass and put it on his eyes, carefully inspected several features and air bubbles bit by bit, and couldn't help saying before Manager Fei: "Old man, how much is this going to cost?"

"Xiaoyou Zhou has also learned painting and calligraphy?" Liu Sanye asked.

"I have practiced calligraphy, but I can only read paintings." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Why would the old man ask this?"

"It can be seen from your hobbies." Liu Sanye said with a smile: "Look at the objects you like, except for the lion-ear bottle that was joked at the beginning, the rest are elegant, not in order of priority. "

"Look, there is a tiger brush stand backed by copper paint and silver, a dustpan, brick inkstone, a seal carved from the cusp of a birthday star, a blue and white lotus leaf pen lick, and this brother's glaze water injection. This is a set of calligraphy and painting supplies for the study."

"These are gifts for the fourth cousin, he is a master of calligraphy and painting." Zhou Zhi smiled and rubbed the vial: "But I didn't intend to give this to him, it's so comfortable to hold."

"It's rare to have someone I can chat with come to my door and take care of so much business for me. I'll give this vial to my little friend. It's not worth money anyway."

"Eh? I think this fish basket bottle is very good. At least I don't see where the problem is. All the characteristics are in line with the characteristics of the handed down Songge kiln. Dare I ask the third master, what do you think is the problem?"

"Actually, little friend, you are quite right. From the point of view of the details, I also agree with what you said." The third master said with a smile: "But there is only one small problem. This utensil was first fired, what is it for? use?"

"You said it was a vase, but it was obviously too small; you said it was a drop of water, but the shape was wrong; you said it was a water bottle, but the capacity was not enough."

"Most of the handed down Ge kilns are in the style of ritual vessels. This obviously deviates from the elegant style of ritual vessels, and has embarked on an elegant path. It lacks the solemn style of the court, but has more fun of seclusion in the mountains. Therefore, I conclude from the style It is not a handed down brother kiln, but a very powerful imitation."

Mr. Liu doesn't have any scientific means, he just relies on his eyesight. It should be said that what he said is all reasonable and there is nothing wrong with it.