Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 763 Competitors
Among the 150 pieces of porcelain, the latest is the Ming Dynasty, including Ming colorful porcelain, Hongwu plum vase with cloud and dragon pattern, Yongle blue and white "Neifu" inscribed plum vase, Yongle blue and white seawater dragon pattern flat pot, Zhengde yellow ground blue and white plate with folded branches and flowers, etc.

There is also a good thing that makes Zhou Zhi greedy - Ming Jun kiln purple red glaze basin.

Among the collections of the Yuan Dynasty, there are blue-and-white dragon and peony curly-grass amphora, blue-and-white peony-curly-grass plum vases, and blue-and-white lotus pond mandarin duck-patterned bowls. The most powerful one is to open any book about blue and white. There are high-definition photos - large pots with blue and white fish and algae patterns.

However, these items are not the most important collection of Eiichi Ataka. His most exquisite collection, like Zhou Zhi's, is Song porcelain.

Among them are celadon narcissus basins from Ru Kiln in the Northern Song Dynasty, plum vases with black glaze carved peony patterns from Cizhou Kiln, white glaze vases with carved peony patterns from Ding Kiln, octagonal vases from official kilns in the Southern Song Dynasty, celadon long-necked vases from Longquan Kiln, and celadon carved scroll pattern vases from Yue Kiln. Huakou dish, Ge kiln pierced ear vase, Yaozhou kiln Dulu vase, etc.

Cultural relics from the Five Dynasties and the Tang Dynasty include figurines of ladies, tricolor pottery from the Tang Dynasty, pots with chicken heads and dragon handles from the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

All these cultural relics have been classified as "important cultural wealth" by the island country, and the two most important ones have been directly designated as "national treasures".

One is the Jizhou Kiln Oil Drop Tianmu Cup from Jian'an Jishui in the Song Dynasty, and the other is a stippling flying celadon jade pot and spring vase from the Longquan Kiln in the Yuan Dynasty.

Oil drop Tianmu lamp is a variety of Jianyao. Jianyao porcelain is a terracotta carcass with thick glaze on the outside. After firing, the iron ions in the glaze will form various dazzling crystal flowers. The most famous one is of course Another national treasure "Yaobian Tianmu Bowl" collected by the island country.

This is related to the custom of fighting tea at that time. This custom has been spread in the island country and eventually evolved into matcha.

Although Eiichi Anzhai's oil drop Tianmu bowl is slightly lower than Yaobian Tianmu bowl, it is also included in the "National Treasure" series.

Another "Fei Qing" jade pot and spring vase is quite similar to the Tang black glazed white spot jar collected by Eiichi An Zhai.

The so-called "flying green" means that there are some petal-like "red spots" on the base of Longquan kiln celadon, which is called "stippling" in China. It often appeared on early celadon, and it disappeared briefly in Song Dynasty. In this era, it began to appear in a free and lively form.

Compared with the previous ones, the re-appeared flying celadon stippling has a more lustrous glaze color, clearer and more vivid stippling, and a natural aesthetic feeling of flying flowers.

Eiichi Anzhai said that the piece in his collection is the "divine product" in the Yuan Dynasty flying celadon dotting technique.

In addition to these two national treasures, Zhou Zhi also picked out one from Eiichi Ataka's collection, which was also from the Jizhou Kiln, but it was called "Konoha". Zhou Zhi thought that this special porcelain bowl should also be included in the "National Treasure" series .

Jizhou kilns are most familiar to collectors because of this miraculous craft.

After applying the glaze, the craftsman will take a leaf and stick it on the tea cup.

After entering the kiln, the leaves will disappear when they pass through the high temperature. However, in the process of disappearing, the glaze surface and the leaf veins undergo a magical chemical reaction, and the crystals will first crystallize along the "foreign matter" on the bowl surface, thus turning the leaves on the bowl surface Be permanently "reprinted" down.

Like Opal, another magical gemstone in nature, a falling leaf is placed in fire and mud, and finally turns into an indelible rainbow kiln pattern.

The Zen memory left in that era between birth and death naturally became the pursuit that everyone flocked to later.

But this process itself is not necessarily perfect. The Konoha cups that were circulated in the early days were often vague or incomplete.

And this Konoha cup by Eiichi Antaka, the leaves are very complete, the petiole and main ribs are in a warm blue-yellow tone, and the tendons are distinct. When viewed from different angles in the bowl with a black bottom, the leaves will change from yellow to present a sense of hierarchy In the turquoise blue tone, this warm and cold change is called "iridescent", and this lamp is therefore known as the "king of Konoha lamps" in the industry.

When Zhou Zhi closed the high-definition picture album of Eiichi Ataka's Chinese collection, he couldn't help sighing: "It's too enviable. But Director Wang, I have a question..."

"what is the problem?"

"This Eiichi Anzhai, he likes collecting porcelain, why is he suddenly interested in calligraphy copybooks?"

"We also thought this question was strange at first, but later we found out that he was entrusted by another island collector, Goro Sakamoto."

Zhou Zhi frowned: "Who is this?"

"They are friends and rivals at the same time." Director Wang said, "Eiichi Anzhai's big pot with blue and white fish and algae pattern was bought from Sakamoto Goro that year."

"Later, at the auction, the two competed for the celadon narcissus basin from the Ru kiln of the Northern Song Dynasty. In the end, Goro Sakamoto tried his best but failed to compete against the powerful Eiichi Ataka, who was the president of the trading company. Sakamoto Goro's lifelong regret."

"Sakamoto Goro is an expert on Chinese cultural relics. His collection is much wider than that of Ataka Eiichi, and he is very interested in calligraphy." Director Wang said: "Because An Siyuan also wants these two books, Sakamoto Goro may think that he The strength is not enough to compete with An Siyuan, so I entrust An Zhaiyingyi to come forward."

"It seems that this An Siyuan is not a good stubble..."

Director Wang patted another document in Zhou Zhi's hand: "Indeed, you'll know it after reading this document."

When Zhou Zhi opened the file, he found that this person was quite a legend.

An Siyuan was influenced by Wang Fangyu, a famous painter and researcher of calligraphy and painting in the United States since he was a child. In addition to showing a strong interest in Chinese culture, he also showed a very high talent.

When he was 14 years old, he bought a porcelain vase for a few dollars at a street stall, and then sent it to Pang Nai, a famous female collector who claimed to "advance the recognition of Chinese art in the West by 100 years". It was a piece of Chinese porcelain from the seventeenth century.

Pang Nai was shocked after the appraisal, and then began to teach An Siyuan carefully. Under the influence and education of Pang Nai, An Siyuan finally became the absolute authority of Chinese artworks.

Later, he opened a gallery and became recognized as the most discerning and tasteful antique dealer and collector in the United States and the entire Western art world, as well as the richest collector.Known as the 'Godfather of Chinese Antiques'.

After he got rich, he bought a huge apartment with 22 rooms on Fifth Avenue, the most prestigious part of Manhattan. It is less than two blocks from the Metropolitan Museum and is said to be one of the three best properties in New York.

In that apartment, nearly [-] antiques were collected.Including British traditional furniture, European decorative art, Chinese furniture, Wenwan, calligraphy and painting, porcelain, jade, rare books, art collections from Japan, India, Himalayas, and Southeast Asia.

Zhou Zhi was dumbfounded when he browsed here, because a general museum has about [-] pieces of cultural relics on display. If An Siyuan displays the [-] pieces of antiques, if one-tenth of them are two copies of "Chunhua Pavilion" If there is such a thing as "Tie", the collection is rich, and I am afraid that ordinary museums cannot compare with him.

Now this person is still serving as a consultant for the Art Donation Review Committee of the US Internal Revenue Service. Except for him, the other four consultants are all experts or curators of major museums, which shows his strength.

Director Wang said: "If Eiichi Anzhai's collection is a 'fine', this collection is a 'bo'."

(End of this chapter)