Jianbao life

Chapter 459 Being a Guest (For the Spring Pot)

Originally, Chu Chen planned to fly back to Beijing early tomorrow morning, but because of the "Zhang Huoni" incident, it may take another day or two before he can leave, so there is nothing to do when he goes back. , Chu Chen and Uncle Wu could only agree.

Du Hou filled Chu Chen's cup with tea very politely, and then said gratefully: "Xiao Chu, I really thank you so much today, if it weren't for you, I probably wouldn't know it in my life. Out of curiosity, this blue and white bowl I bought at a small stall will be a real Yuan blue and white bowl!"

Chu Chen waved his hands again and again and said, "It's just luck, and if it wasn't for your bowl having its own content, I wouldn't be able to find the problem!"

Du Hou didn't say any more about this, and smiled slightly: "You guys sit here for a while, and I'll come when I go!" Then he stood up from the sofa and walked into the house.

After a while, Du Hou came out with a brocade box in his hand, and then carefully placed it on the tea table, opened the lid, and said to Chu Chen with a smile: "Xiao Chu, you helped me make a round this time." I have nothing to repay the dream of Yuan blue and white, so I will transfer the precious purple sand pot I got in the early years to you!"

When Chu Chen and Uncle Wu heard what Du Hou said, they immediately knew that this purple clay pot must be not simple, so they all looked into the box curiously, but when they saw the unique shape of the purple clay pot, they were surprised Can't help but be a little dazed.

After a while, Chu Chen came back to his senses, and asked Du Hou in disbelief, "Old Du, is this a spring offering pot?"

Du Cha spread his hands and said: "I think this should be a spring offering pot, but the spring offering pot is really famous, and his pots are relatively small, even the few pots that are considered authentic now, The controversy is also relatively large, it is hard to say whether this pot of mine is a real spring offering! Whether this pot is real or not, let's discuss it after you have seen it!"

Chu Chen nodded in agreement, and then politely asked Uncle Wu to look at it first, but Uncle Wu didn't refuse, put on his gloves and carefully took out the purple clay pot in the box, and began to look at it carefully.

Speaking of Zisha teapots, the name of Gongchun is familiar to the ears of Zisha teapot artists and the majority of Zisha teapot lovers.

Gongchun was a native of Hongzhi and Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, also known as Gongchun. He was originally the family boy of Xuexian Wu Yishan.Wu Yishan, a famous official, styled Kexue, was friendly with Suzhou Tang Bohu and others.He was a Jinshi in the Jiaxu year of Zhengde, and later promoted Sichuan to participate in politics as a deputy envoy of Tixue. This person was also a well-known person at that time.

According to records, before Wu Yishan became a Jinshi, he studied in Yixing Jinsha Temple.Shutong Gongchun "gives time to the envoy" and found that the monks of Jinsha Temple refined the fine soil for making pottery vats and pottery urns, kneaded them into tires, rounded them according to the rules, hollowed them out, and made them into pots.Then "steal imitated the craftsman of the old monk, also washed the fine soil, kneaded the teaspoon hole, pointed to the inside and outside", and made a teapot with "maroon color as dark as ancient gold iron". This is the famous purple sand teapot later.

Later, the skills of Gongchun improved, and the reason of its owner Wu Yishan finally made him the first famous master in the history of purple clay pots, and he took the seat of the patriarch.

It is precisely because of this that spring offering pots are particularly precious, and have been sought after by people for hundreds of years since the late Ming Dynasty.Zhou Shu's "Taiyang Baiyong": "The most important thing is a small pot for spring. If it is used for decades, it is worth a gold wat."

However, spring offering pots are rare, and there are no more than three recorded ones, the most famous of which is Jiu Yiyi. The collection of Nan Qiang, a sage in Xingxiang, is the tree gall spring offering pot now in the National Museum of History in Beijing. .

At this time, the purple sand pot in Uncle Wu's hand is also a tree gall pot. As the name suggests, the body of the pot is in the shape of a pine tree gall, and the handle is in the shape of a branch, but the lid is not the tree gall in the museum. The pot is in the shape of a melon, but an ordinary round lid, but the surface is also as concave and convex as the body of the pot, like a tree gall, matching the body of the pot, like a whole.

In fact, the lid of the tree gall pot in the museum is not the original one.That pot was bought by Mr. Chu Nanqiang in 1928 at a stall.After many investigations and textual research, he learned that this pot was once collected in the home of Wu Dacheng, a great collector in the late Qing Dynasty.He believes that this pot is a genuine Gongchun pot, but the lid was made by Huang Yulin, a famous pot maker in the late Qing Dynasty.
After the painter Huang Binhong saw this, he thought that Huang Yulin's later matching cover was "Zhang Guan Li Dai".

That is to say, no one can tell what the lid of the tree gall pot was originally like, and the spring pot is relatively random, so it is unlikely that two real tree gall pots will be the same.

Uncle Wu looked at the tree gall pot in his hand, and after a long time he put the pot back to its original position. Seeing this, Du Hou asked quickly, "Xiao Wu, what do you think of this pot?"

Uncle Wu chuckled and said: "I think the charm of this pot is very good, and the possibility of offering spring pots is very high. As for what it is, let's talk about it after Xiaochen has seen it!"

Chu Chen nodded, and after finishing the preparations, he couldn't wait to take the pot out of the box, and looked at it carefully.

This pot has a simple and exquisite shape, and the whole body is natural and simple. Although it is the same tree gall pot as the one in the museum, it does not look the same on the surface. If you compare the two, it looks like two completely different tree galls. Of course, since the spring pots are all hand-made, if two pots have the same appearance, at least one of them must be a fake.

At first glance, this pot seems to have a thick carcass, but when Chu Chen holds the pot in his hand, it feels quite light. When he opens the lid and observes carefully, he can also see that the lid is indeed very thin, which fully reflects the The quality of the Gongchun pot is pure, thin and solid. In addition, the word "Gongchun" is engraved next to the handle.

Chu Chen, like Uncle Wu, took a long time to observe the spring offering pot carefully, and finally used the power, and the result surprised him quite a bit.

"Xiao Chen (Xiao Chu), what do you think of this pot?" Uncle Wu and Du Hou asked in unison after seeing that Chu Chen had also finished reading.

Chu Chen said with a smile: "I think this should be a genuine spring pot!"

"Oh? What do you think, can you tell me?" Du Hou asked quickly.

"Then let me say a few points of my opinion."

Chu Chen talked eloquently: "We know that the craftsmanship of Gongchun teapots was still very primitive at that time, and it was impossible for the technology of punching the body, inlaying the body and mold to block blanks at this time, so it is impossible for Gongchun teapots to have The above-mentioned technical features, primitiveness, are the main features of the spring pots, I think the spring pots at that time should be hand-kneaded, and then trimmed with simple tools, and even finger marks can be seen on the body of the pot.”

"And this pot reflects such characteristics. In addition, because the technology at that time was very primitive, the soil should be very rough and the particles should be very coarse. At the same time, because it was fired with an open fire, it was fired in the same kiln as the vat, and the color of the fired pot It's not even enough, and there should be tears of urn glaze splashing on the body, and this pot also shows these two points."

Uncle Wu and Du Hou nodded again and again, and agreed with both points Chu Chen said, and Chu Chen continued to talk about his opinion:

"What's more, we know that the production of spring offering pots is very random. It doesn't matter if it is accidentally bumped or scratched during the production process, but even so, if it is a real spring offering pot, it can be Express exactly what he wants to express."

"And this pot is like this. Although the surface looks bumpy and there are handprints in some places, the vigorous, ancient, natural and simple meaning on this pot can be seen at a glance. I don't know except for the few in history. Apart from many Zisha teapot masters, who else can express these meanings easily and casually!"

Chu Chen finally concluded: "To sum up, I think this purple sand pot should be a real spring offering pot!"

"Clap!"

After listening to Chu Chen's explanation, Uncle Wu and Du Hou couldn't help applauding him.

Chu Chen humbly praised the award again and again, and after a while, he asked curiously: "Mr. Du, I would like to ask, how did you get this spring offering pot?"

Du Hou laughed when he heard this and said, "Speaking of which, I think it's fun even thinking about it now!..."

Things went back to ten years ago, Du Hou went to the capital because of business, because he had to stay for a long time, and he didn't have any other hobbies in his spare time, so he often went to the antique market to find some small things, and he was very happy.

Once, Du Hou went to a relatively secluded place and found an old man with a vicissitudes of life. His clothes were worn out and very rustic. Du Hou immediately thought of the tenants before liberation.

At this time, the old man was taking goods out of a very worn-out cloth bag, and quickly filled up an old patched stall on the ground in front of him.

But what made Du Hou feel strange was that before the old man put the things on the table, several people surrounded him, and everyone picked something in the blink of an eye. Those who searched for faults over and over again, and what's more, they paid the money happily and left after only a few glances.

This made Du Hou very surprised, wondering secretly, could it be that the things on that stall are so good, they are so sought-after, and it seems that money is not taken for money, this seems to him who has been playing with antiques for many years They all feel a kind of evil energy.

But in the next scene, Du Hou immediately understood what was the purpose of the lively scene just now.

I saw those people picking and picking for a while, then there was a middle-aged man with fat head and big ears, dressed as a nouveau riche, rushing to the old man's booth, probably because he saw that there was nothing good in the booth. Something was gone, and a look of deep disappointment immediately appeared on his face.

But just as the middle-aged man was about to leave, a half-century old man with glasses, neatly combed hair, plain but clean clothes, who looked like a high-level intellectual walked to the booth...

(End of this chapter)