Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 667

The old man is also a big expert, and he opened his mouth to report two characteristics that are different from the real one: "So except for the glaze, other things still can't escape the limitations of the Yongzheng imitation."

"Then the level of imitation is not high?" Third Brother Yu asked, seeing the two people picking out a bunch of faults while listening in a cloud.

"Hahahahaha..." Old Master Yu and Zhou Zhi seemed to have heard a big joke, and they were so happy that Third Brother Yu and Little Sixth Sister laughed so hard that they couldn't figure it out.

After laughing for a long time, Zhou Zhi held his belly: "Brother Yu, the imitation of the five imperial tribute porcelains of the Song Dynasty in the past dynasties has reached its peak in the Yongzheng period, and it will be extremely difficult to break through any point. .”

"Although Jianguo Porcelain is a gift for the founding of the country by concentrating the power of the whole country, the problem of yield rate must also be considered. This problem can only be achieved by changing the tire, changing the kiln temperature and changing the glaze formula."

"But all of these have been changed, and the imitated things will not look like it. How to ensure the yield rate and ensure that the imitated products can be fakes are the real ones. This is the difficulty."

"Then what if I don't pursue the yield rate, but focus on the pursuit of imitation?" Third Brother Yu insisted.

"There is a time cost involved." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "Let's not talk about the restoration of the porcelain body clay formula and the restoration of the glaze color formula, but just talk about an earthen aging process, which is not easy."

"Why did we say incense ash body just now? That's the characteristic of Song porcelain body soil." Mr. Yu knew that the third brother and the sixth sister could not understand, so he patiently explained: "The ancients did not have many purification techniques like modern people. They made porcelain with The embryonic soil is mining, roasting, crushing, and the process of removing impurities is water drifting and mud kneading."

"Really, Toya Ito, a Confucian scholar in the Edo period, specially wrote an article called "The Story of the Leech Stumbling on the Tea Ou", which specifically recorded this incident."

"So Emperor Yong Le had no choice but to order someone to repair the bowl with curium nails and send it back to the island country. Because the baked nails left on the bowl are shaped like leeches, they are called 'leech stumble' in the island country."

"During the Yongle period, there was a shogun in the current island country named Ashikaga Yoshimasa, who obtained a celadon bowl that was first enshrined in the Yuwangshan temple in Lin'an in the Southern Song Dynasty."

"So no matter which dynasty, they all follow the path of 'using the new to imitate the old'. The most typical example is the large celadon bowl of Longquan celadon in the island country."

"Ashikaga Yoshimasa felt very sorry, so he took the opportunity of sending envoys to bring the bowl to China, and asked the Ming Dynasty government to re-fire an identical one."

When I looked at the bottom of the money, it was a simple blue and white double circle, with four square seal scripts "Made in Jingdecheng".

"The literati in ancient times liked to make up stories." Brother Yu still shook his head: "This is too exaggerated and too funny..."

"The porcelain body made of this kind of mud can be given to you to make casually?" Mr. Yu said with a smile: "I don't pursue the yield rate, the toad yawns, what a sigh of relief!"

"After a while, the workshop will take out the old mud, mix it with new mud, and repeat the process."

Third brother Yu couldn't help but laugh: "Really? A bowl so big? Can't imitate it in the end? Send the baked curium back?"

"Vulgar!" Mr. Yu reprimanded: "Let this thing go to my place. I have a locked room in my place, so I can't mess it up. What's the other thing?"

"Originally, the cong-shaped bottle was intended for Little Sixth Sister." Zhou Zhi opened another brocade box that was much smaller: "This is the old one for you."

"The one who is truly qualified to be called 'Boneless Painting' is the Liu Yucen mentioned earlier. It was not until a few years ago that he was almost fully mature, and he was able to truly show the technique of traditional Chinese painting on porcelain."

"So the difficulty of restoring the craftsmanship is much greater than the difficulty of restoring the finished product. That road is very difficult to go through. It took more than 300 years from the Southern Song Dynasty to Yongle, and the technological iteration of the feudal dynasty was still very slow, so the craftsmanship could not be restored." Zhou Zhi spread his hands: "So third brother, do you know how difficult it is to make this piece of porcelain?"

"Is this difficult?" Yu San Xiaobai asked again.

"This is..." Even though Mr. Yu is well-informed, he has never seen this thing before.

"This is just an example of fetal soil." Zhou Zhi said: "The rest of the glaze, the shape of the kiln mouth, the firewood used, the firing season, the control of fire and oxygen, etc., have to explore all the ancient techniques, and then use the ancient method It is almost impossible to burn out porcelain that is exactly the same as ancient porcelain regardless of the yield rate... that is purely asking for trouble."

Zhou Zhi gave a thumbs up: "The old man is amazing! This is Fan Tianxin, a disciple of Master Liu Yucen, the eight friends of Zhushan. Color stunt."

"The painting method of boneless flowers existed in the Song Dynasty, but it could not be expressed on porcelain for thousands of years." In terms of excessive shades, it can only be said to be unsatisfactory."

"Which period was the most prosperous period of the Ming Dynasty?" Zhou Zhi asked.

"Ah?" Third Brother Yu opened his mouth wide and was speechless.

"But this bowl has been passed down in Japan for 200 years, and there is a big crack."

In the eyes of Third Brother Yu and Miss Sixth Sister, what Zhou Zhi took out was a common white porcelain cup in the office, the only difference was that the peach blossoms, young leaves and little birds on the porcelain cup were so beautiful.

"This cup is so beautifully painted." The cup was taken over by Mr. Yu, and there was only one lid. Little Sixth Sister and Yu Third Brother took turns to look at it.

"What kind of story is this again?" Third brother Yu realized that there was too much knowledge in this business.

"Of course it is Yongle." Third Brother Yu said.

"Indeed." The old man twirled the cup, "It's just that the technique of boneless flowers is shown on the porcelain, and a layer of white glaze is added to protect the color."

After finishing speaking, he shook his head: "This painter is no worse than the Eight Friends of Zhushan."

"But this is not a story." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "This thing is now in the Tokyo National Museum, and the island country regards it as a national treasure."

"How much is this porcelain worth?"

"Emperor Yongle asked the officials to find a famous craftsman to meet Ashikaga Yoshimasa's request. However, after a lot of inquiries, the answer was that the craftsmanship has been lost, and the craftsmen of the Yongle Dynasty couldn't make such a large glazed bowl!"

"Then make it into mud bricks and put them in a cool place for stacking. It will take at least three to five years, and more than ten years or decades, to let some slow chemical reactions take place in them and let the impurities decompose."

Although I don't understand, but the painting is so delicate and exquisite, so close to the traditional Chinese painting of porcelain with boneless flower painting, both of them can understand the quality of things.

"This painting method is not complicated. To put it bluntly, it is actually to find a glaze that can blend in the glass white." Zhou Zhi said.

But the eyes are still there: "This is porcelain in the pastel glaze, no, this color is weird, this is... the handicraft of the eight friends of Zhushan?"

"First use glass white to draw the shapes of flowers and plants, and then use watercolor paint to do the second point dyeing on glass white. As long as you write accurately and lightly, you can get the effect of watercolor."

"However, the red in the glaze before was not accurate. It was either more orange-red or more vermilion, and it was not true red or water red."

"The Porcelain Research Institute set up a special research project, finally solved this problem, and developed the excellent red and water red that can be used in the boneless color process. Only then did the 7501 engineering porcelain have the water-point peach blossom and water-point plum blossom. "

"Later, this batch of porcelain was sent to Jurentang, a research institute and porcelain factory under the Gan Provincial Department of Light Industry, where it was quietly called 'Mao Porcelain'."

(End of this chapter)