Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 605 Collection category
After looking around the room with its furniture, Feng Cang added a red sandalwood antique shelf to his office, followed Zhou Zhi's suggestion, and gave up the previous two "gifts" and replaced them with "gifts" that are more suitable for display. Official Cap Tube".

Tube hat tube, as the name suggests, is a tube of porcelain used to put official hats, which can be a cylinder or a hexagonal tube.

This is a very magical thing. Unlike ordinary porcelain, which is a practical vessel that is born out of a container, it is usually both decorative and practical. Although the official hat tube is a cylindrical object, many official hat tubes have holes on the top and bottom. Holes in the shape of begonias, ruyis, bats, and lanterns with auspicious patterns basically have no practical value except for hats.

The key is that this thing rose very late, it only began to flourish during the Xianfeng period, and it became popular only during the Guangxu period. As soon as it became popular, even the "official hat" disappeared, but it became a necessary dowry and display device for folk weddings.

But this lottery is far better than the general jars that were first used as urns.

Moreover, the price of official hat tubes is lower than that of general jars, because the royal family can't afford to put official hats on beautiful porcelain to show off.

However, the situation of folk kilns in the last days is similar. Various techniques of folk kilns in the late Qing Dynasty have been completed, and they also produce high-quality goods, especially the high-quality goods entrusted.

After Zhou Zhi's explanation, Feng Cang replaced the General Jar with a pair of white-glazed alum red Fushou flower hat tubes.

The color of alum red glaze is neither as bright and eye-catching as bright red, nor as magnificent as yellow. Its color is between bright red and yellow, and it is not orange, but more red, with a little yellow. , a shade similar to "Palace Wall Red".

"If you want to be poor, burn red." Red is a very difficult color to grasp. The Ming Dynasty came to the world with the virtue of fire, and the power of the country was used to burn red glaze. As a result, it was still lost in the Xuande period. It is recorded in "Da Ming Hui Dian" : "In the 26th year of Jiajing, the Chief Secretary of Jiangxi announced: The bright red utensils are heavily rewarded, and the firing has not been completed, but the alum red can be burned."

The "bright red ware" mentioned here refers to the famous Ming Dynasty porcelain "glaze red". The yellowish and pale "burning fly away white" has become a real "ruby red".

This craft was not restored for the entire Ming Dynasty, and it was not until the third Qing Dynasty that a breakthrough was made.

For quite a long time, alum red wares have been regarded as important wares among red glazes, and have received great attention.

The pottery supervisor Lang Tingji brought a breakthrough in the traditional red glaze, and later the kiln mouth where the batch of red glaze was fired was called "Lang kiln".Many red glaze wares such as "rouge water", "coral red", "sacrifice red", "cowpea red" and "smear red" appeared one after another. Among them, the most noble "ruby red" was called "Lang Hong".

Correspondingly, the importance of alum red is getting worse day by day.

However, this situation changed slightly in the late Qing Dynasty. During the Guangxu period, alum-red porcelain made another breakthrough in folk kilns. The color of alum red porcelain that is close to "brightness" is not as good as Xuande's "ruby red" in quality, but it is also closer to red than the previous "coral red" palace wall color.

With the base of white porcelain, it looks very festive.

The mouth of this pair of hat tubes is a classic representative of the same era as the end of Guangchu. The edge of the mouth of the utensils is also painted with gold. Below the mouth of the gold is a circle of wishful halos, followed by patterns of folded branches, flowers and leaves, bats, blessings, and longevity. pattern.

The hollow holes are patterned with begonias, and the edges are drawn outside the holes.

All these patterns are linked together with the lotus pattern, which means "Longevity and Longevity", which is as good as it can be.

The only shortcoming is the six-character seal script "made in the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty". It's not that the imitation of the base is not good enough, but that there was no such type of utensil in the Yongzheng period. This writer's writing skills are superficial, not vigorous enough, and seem to be guilty of guilt.

However, apart from this flaw, the imitation grade of the whole object is on par with that of the Yongzheng official kiln. The craftsmanship is exquisite, not to mention the exquisite painting, and the alum red flowers and leaves also render the layers.

Although in Zhou Zhi's eyes, this pair of porcelain has improved in terms of painting, but it is still a kind of "extraordinary". The shape of the vessel, the artistry and the color are all aimed at catering to the aesthetics of porcelain in Tongguang years.

This seems a little outrageous.

However, in the eyes of Feng Cang and others, this object is more "beautiful" than the authentic Yongzheng alum red porcelain, and it is more colorful and lively than the pair of general jars before, so of course they are willing to replace it.

This also made Ma Ye secretly give Zhou Zhi a thumbs up. Zhou Zhi boasted that he saved more than 1 yuan by replacing the Tongzhi official kiln with the Guangxu folk kiln.

In the end, Feng Cang chose a pair of huanghuali square stools and two "not easy to break" tripod-style stoves with copper body and cloisonné enamel, one side and one round, and put them together with the painting table. There is no one anymore.

"There seems to be something to hang on the wall behind the painting table..." Feng Cang was very satisfied.

"Hanging paintings." Zhou Zhi felt that the "Sitting Dragon Picture" at home would be absolutely full with this set, but it was impossible to release that thing from his hands, so he could only give Feng Cang a suggestion: "According to the old custom, Brother Feng's office should hang an eight-foot hall, that's the style."

"Hanging a picture?" Liu Zhengyun was also rubbing his chin and pondering: "I think everyone is hanging a picture, so it's already vulgar...how about...hanging a dragon robe?"

Zhou Zhi wanted to cry, hanging calligraphy and paintings these days has become tacky, but hanging dragon robes has become elegant?

Unexpectedly, Jiang Wu Wang Shuo Pan Shiya unanimously applauded, saying that this idea is very good, and it can reflect the grandeur of the company.

What made Zhou Zhi even more unexpected was that there were not a few collectors in the capital who owned dragon robes. Ma Ye made two phone calls and found several pieces. There were several types of these things, including court clothes, auspicious clothes, chapter clothes, and casual clothes. The price was so low that I couldn't believe it. The other party only asked for nine thousand five thousand five thousand for the cheapest auspicious suit embroidered with colorful clouds and golden dragon patterns on a sauce-colored ground.

Hearing that it was so cheap, Feng Cang and the others got excited again, and asked Zhou Zhi to talk to Master Ma about the secrets of the dragon robe.

So Zhou Zhi had no choice but to tell them that theoretically, any clothes worn by the emperor could be called dragon robes, but the best and highest-ranked ones were, of course, the royal court clothes worn by the main hall.

That set of clothes is not only about dragons, but also has twelve chapters that represent the identity of the emperor, namely, the sun, the moon, the stars, the mountains, the dragons, the Chinese insects, the Zongyi, the algae, the fire, the rice, the scorpion, and the scorpion. Decoration with special meaning.

The emperors of the Qing Dynasty came to a court meeting once every five days, that is, every ten days, but such court clothes were not worn for every court meeting.

Because it is too solemn, it is generally only worn at the Zhengdan Grand Court Meeting at the beginning of each year, and the Winter Solstice Grand Court Meeting at the end of the year, and when it represents the highest power in the world and sacrifices to heaven and earth.

Such a dragon robe needs to cost a thousand taels of silver, two thousand weavers, and a year to make it, so the stock is naturally pitifully small.

After saying this, Feng Cang not only didn't hold back, but became even more enthusiastic: "This is fun, but it's hard to find."

So Liu Zhengyun came up with another bad idea: "If you collect all kinds of styles and colors, and change them if you have nothing to do, it's also a good idea?"

So it was a happy decision. Feng Cang agreed to create a collection category for himself, which is the dragon robe. He started with the cheapest auspicious clothes embroidered with colorful clouds and gold and dragon patterns in a sauce-colored ground. !
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