Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 801 Authentic
After some explanation, everyone nodded again and again, Li Jianchen was very happy, and said with a smile: "It can be said that I have learned a lot today."

Eiichi Anzhai even bowed slightly to Zhou Zhi: "I used to think that China did not do enough research on the protection of its own culture and cultural relics. After listening to Zhou Sang's explanation today, I realized that it was my misunderstanding. Zhou Sang, you have been educated!"

Yang Yongde said: "It turns out that the Kuilong, Yinglong, and Chilong on the porcelain are different from the three kinds of dragons on the ancient books. I just said what's going on. The problem is here!"

In the end, Xu Zhantang's question came again: "Since it is different from the records in ancient books, how did the domestic experts formulate the appraisal standard?"

Zhou Zhi explained: "This is what we just discussed, the importance of the complete relationship between the cultural relics and the location, and the classics of the location."

"For example, we can find similar records from the work files of the Qing palace's building office. On a certain day, a certain palace was repaired, and several words written on a certain corridor with Kuilong patterns were repaired, and then we went to that place to investigate, and we could I learned what kind of pattern the Kuilong pattern used on the porch is."

"Similarly, although a lot of porcelain in the Palace Museum has been scattered and lost, there are detailed records of the inventory, the time of its entry into the palace, the records of its entry and exit, and the records of its circulation in each palace and room. These records, referring to the place where the porcelain is collected, match the description of the porcelain pattern on the record with the actual porcelain pattern."

"There are nearly 180 million items in the collection of the Palace Museum in the capital. There are still many collections with detailed archive records. This is also an important research branch of the Palace Museum's Porcelain Research Institute."

"Dragon pattern is a very important pattern on porcelain. The current Forbidden City and the National Museum have studied this aspect very thoroughly."

Xu Zhantang nodded again and again: "So that's true, it's true. I'm more clear about the concept of the loss of cultural relics leaving the country that my friend said before."

Zhang Zongxian was concerned about another question: "So this big pot, did Zhou Xiaoyou think it was from this dynasty?"

Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Actually, everyone has seen the quality of the body, glaze, shape, base, auxiliary decoration, flint red, etc. of this porcelain. Everyone should know that there is nothing wrong with it."

"The only controversy is on the rare Kuilong pattern, right?"

Everyone nodded.

Zhou Zhi continued: "After receiving the appraisal entrustment from Haitong, I also paid special attention to this aspect and consulted some experts."

"Have they ever seen a large pot with this pattern?" Zhang Zongxian asked in surprise.

"Yeah." Zhou Zhi nodded, "And there's more than one."

"What?!" Everyone present here, logically speaking, they are well-informed, they have never seen such a big pot, but now Zhou Zhi said that there is more than one!
Zhou Zhi said: "Before Chenghua, porcelain painters seldom used Kuilong as the subject. However, in the pile of Xuande porcelain in Jingde Imperial Kiln Zhushan, a Xuande inkstone was unearthed, and the underglaze blue and white patterns also had Kuilong. Accompanied by a phoenix pattern."

"In [-], a remnant blue-and-white jar slightly larger than this one was unearthed there. Its main band is painted with Kui patterns, and the bottom is lined with a circle of lotus petals. The six-character Xuande inscription is written inside the blue-and-white double circle on the bottom of the vessel. "

"I found these by checking the information. As a result, when I visited Mr. Wang in the capital this time, he easily pointed out to me that there are only a few things like this that he knows."

Everyone is stupid.

"The first one cannot be said to be conclusive proof, because it is too small, but it is also in Kui script, which can prove the application of Kui dragon pattern on pot-shaped porcelain from the side, that is the Ming Chenghua bucket color Kui dragon pattern collected in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Tianzi jar."

"The second one is in the old collection of Sun Yingzhou. It is blue and white underglaze red in the Ming Dynasty. It is now in the Palace Museum of the capital. Because it is too precious, it is not exhibited on a daily basis. In the album, the photo of this large red kuilong jar in blue and white glaze was selected into it."

"The third piece is hidden in the National Museum, and it is not usually displayed outside. However, it once appeared in the directory of the internal materials of "Study Series of Cultural Relics Collected by the National Museum of China: Porcelain Volume (Ming Dynasty)". The old man took me to see it. The real thing is similar to the jar we saw in front of us, and it is also blue and white made of Soviet materials."

"Knowing the fourth piece is a coincidence," Zhou Zhi said, "I have a British friend who once brought me an album of collections from the Cambridge Museum. And it was auctioned by Sotheby's London twice in June 1937. It has been included in the heavyweight collections of Wu Laixi, Major Lindsay F. Hay and Soame Jenyns, and is currently in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge."

"This is a museum with an academic background, and it is very unknown, but with these two auction records and collection locations, I believe that with your energy, you should be able to find them."

When talking about the sources of these things, Lin Wanqiu began to record them in a notebook, and when she heard this, she immediately took a pen and nodded to Li Lehai.

"I'll go!" Hou Zhongjin, who has the most connections in the western world, immediately walked outside.

Zhou Zhi continued: "A closer look shows that the Kui patterns of the two dynasties of Xuancheng have their own characteristics, but both of them have a rolled trunk, only two front feet with sharp claws, and a dragon's tail is composed of a series of graceful curly grass patterns."

"Kui's mouth must be wide open, sharp teeth and long tongue are clearly visible, and the celestial grass in his mouth may be passion lotus or Ganoderma lucidum."

"In contrast, the Xuande dragon pattern is more vigorous and imposing, and the end of its proboscis looks like a wishful thinking, while the Chenghua Kui pattern is more peaceful, and its proboscis shape is closer to that of an elephant."

"Chenghua porcelain with Kui pattern is mostly Buddhist porcelain, because Emperor Chenghua himself believed in Buddhism, and the porcelain Kuilong is closely related to the Capricorn pattern."

"In the Xuande Dynasty, although the status of Buddhism was not as high as that of Chenghua, Emperor Xuande still followed the practice of his grandfather Yongle, such as keeping in touch with Tibetan monks."

"Therefore, it is not surprising that the image of the Capricorn fish in Buddhism and the image of the native Chinese dragon form the unique image of the dragon in Xuancheng porcelain."

Zhang Zongxian asked: "So, this piece of porcelain is... actually..."

"The authenticity is undoubtedly!" Hou Zhongjin has already walked in quickly from outside with a fax paper: "My colleague in England passed it over!"

Zhou Zhi said: "The one from Cambridge University is the most perfect one, and it also has a general cover. This is also the only complete one among the few known early Ming Kuilong blue and white jars."

Everyone received the fax. Sure enough, although it was a very unclear black-and-white fax picture, the shape and pattern of the vessel were almost exactly the same as the one in the exhibition hall. What's even more rare was that there was an original Yuan Dynasty helmet-shaped cover.

There are still three pictures on the fax, two sideways, and one bottom foot, and the base is exactly the same as this one, double circle Xuande six characters.

"If I had known this earlier, I wouldn't have made a move." Zhang Zongxian was not annoyed, and touched his forehead with a smile: "I have picked up a big leak for my niece!"

"Can I find out how much Miss Wanqiu spent at that time?" Zhou Zhi became curious.

Lin Wanqiu said with a smile: "Uncle Zhang is just kidding me. When I went to play in his collection room, he asked me to randomly identify an item in the room as my coming-of-age gift. He will give it to me at whatever price he bought it for."

"This blue and white piece looked very comfortable to me, so I pointed it out, and then my uncle asked me to give him two thousand dollars, and gave me this big jar."

(End of this chapter)