Jianbao life

Chapter 616 It Was Heiding

Du Sheng smiled sarcastically, and said nothing else, saying something was a fake in front of the owner of the utensil, which is also a taboo in the antique business.

Chu Chen smiled slightly, and didn't care about it. He wiped the bottom of the cup with a cloth, and said with a smile: "You two elders actually forgot a detail. This tea cup is a white fetus."

"White fetus?"

The second elder was slightly taken aback, then Du Shengqing frowned and said, "Could it be a product of Hebi Kiln?"

"Do you think it's possible?" Guan Guokang said angrily, "If Hebi Kiln can produce such a product, it can be compared to the five famous kilns in the Song Dynasty. Do you think the reputation will be as low as it is now? Wait..."

Speaking of this, Guan Guokang frowned slightly, then moved closer to Chu Chen, stared at the teacup for a careful observation, and said in a daze, "Xiao Chu, is this Heiding?"

"Heidi?"

Before Chu Chen could speak, Du Shengqing said in surprise, "Old Guan, you mean this is Heiding from Ding Kiln?"

"That's it!" Guan Guokang said excitedly: "When Cao Zhao of the Ming Dynasty mentioned "Ancient Ding Kiln" in "Ge Gu Yao Lun Gu Ding Kiln", it was recorded that "there is Zi Ding, the color is purple; there is Mo Ding, the color is as black as paint.The soil is all white, and its price is as high as Baiding, all of which come out of Dingzhou. "Look at the performance of this teacup, what is it if it's not black?"

Song Ding kiln is famous for its white porcelain, but it also fired high-quality black glazed porcelain, called "Heiding", also known as "rabbit hair flower".The black fixed tire is the same as the white porcelain tire, both are white tires.

"I know it is black, but is it certain that it will become black?" Du Shengqing frowned and asked.

Guan Guokang laughed and said: "Old Du, you are really good at bronze ware, but you are so-so for this porcelain ware. You know, Heiding can be roughly divided into three categories. The first category is pure black, and the glaze is black and shiny. , Light can teach people, just as Cao Zhao said in "Ge Gu Yao Lun" "There is ink, and the color is as black as lacquer."

"This type of black tire is pure white, with a high degree of porcelain, few pores in the cross-section, and high sintering temperature. The second type of glaze has a "kiln change" color, or (gold, silver) rabbit hair, Or with oil droplets, or with rust spots, and even wonderful kiln changes like obsidian changes, etc., but the overall theme is still black. The third type is decorated with golden colors, rich and solemn..."

"I was also fortunate enough to see a blackening device before, but it was just a fragment, and this is the first time I have seen the whole thing!"

Speaking of this, Guan Guokang looked at the teacup with a look full of heat. With that look, he wished he could swallow this teacup alive.

After a while, he sighed again: "It's a pity, ah, a pity!"

"What's your pity?" Du Shengqing asked strangely.

Guan Guokang said regretfully: "It's a pity that Xiao Chu won't transfer such a thing! If he is willing to transfer it, I will try my best to buy it!"

Chu Chen smiled and shook his head: "As you always said, I definitely won't sell this teacup."

Guan Guokang was still a little disappointed when he heard the words, and sighed: "Forget it, forget it, I can take one more look now..."

After a while, Chu Chen cleaned off the dirt on the bottom of the teacup, and the quality of the fetus came into everyone's eyes.

Guan Guokang couldn't wait to ask Chu Chen for a teacup, and then picked up a magnifying glass to observe carefully. After a while, he put the teacup on the table with some reluctance, and exclaimed: "It's sure to turn black. It's a well-deserved reputation!"

Du Shengqing also quickly and carefully took the teacup. Taking advantage of this, Du Liyu asked curiously:

"Uncle Guan, is the identification of Heiding different from ordinary Ding kiln?"

Guan Guokang nodded: "That's true. In addition to the characteristics of Ding kiln, we also have a formula for identifying Ziding and Heiding. It is said that Ziding and Baiding are different in bubbles, and Heiding and Ziding are less soaked. Black and purple When the glaze is small, there will be bubbles, and the purple gold and earth sand will hang on the fat. It looks like rosin twisted sand, and the black and purple are colored by iron. The ratio of temperature control and iron mixing is excellent, and the beauty of Ding kiln porcelain is endless."

"The meaning of this formula is that if it is genuine, then use a magnifying glass of thirty or forty times to see that there are bubbles in the thin glaze, and almost no bubbles in the dark places. There are large and small bubbles. Every utensil It's not the same between them, but there is a foggy glaze layer like rosin sand under the glaze layer."

"In addition, the soils of Heiding and Ziding both contain iron. The chromaticity and the amount of purple gold sand glaze slurry are related to the iron content. This is also very important in the identification..."

As soon as Guan Guokang said this, Du Shengqing next to him said with a strange expression: "Hey, something is wrong!"

"What's wrong?" Everyone turned their gazes over.

Du Shengqing said: "Ding kiln porcelain adopts the over-firing process, so it has a mans mouth, but this tea cup does not have a mans mouth. How could it be fired in Ding kiln?"

Guan Guokang snorted and said: "You are so ignorant, this is not only made in Ding Kiln, but also a tribute porcelain!"

"I'm ignorant?"

Du Shengqing said unconvinced: "It's not that I haven't read the book. There are records in some documents, saying that at the beginning, the reason why the court of the Northern Song Dynasty didn't order porcelain was because of the awn. But later, inlaid on the mouth of the awn If you buy gold and silver, it seems to have a higher grade, so the court accepted Ding Kiln. You don’t even have a mouth..."

Having said that, Du Shengqing stopped suddenly and frowned again.

Guan Guokang laughed and said: "How about it, I can't go on, of course it can be used as a tribute porcelain without awn mouth."

"However, how could Ding Kiln have no mouth?" Du Shengqing was still not convinced.

Guan Guokang said with a smile: "That's because you didn't read carefully. Ding Kiln Mangkou Porcelain was created and fired in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty. Ding kiln porcelain without awnings fired by firing techniques."

"These non-Mangkou Ding kiln tribute porcelains, due to the low production volume, high cost, and short firing time, the number of firings at that time was relatively small. It has been nearly a thousand years, and the complete ware is very rare. And like this If it turns black, there will be fewer, I guess it is very likely, there will be only one complete device left."

"Later, Dingzhou porcelain was over-fired. Because of the awn mouth, the imperial officials did not accept it. The Southern Song Dynasty document "Tanzhai Biheng" records: "Dingzhou white porcelain in this dynasty has awn, which is unusable; Green kiln wares made in Ruzhou..." That's why gold and silver were inlaid on the mouth of the awn...

"Yes!" Chu Chen nodded and said, "I still have a Ding Kiln large dish, and there are still traces of inlays on the mangkou, but although the quality of that large dish is excellent, compared with this tea cup, the fetal glaze is still inferior. It's a lot different."

"Of course."

Guan Guokang said: "Ding Kiln tribute porcelain in the Northern Song Dynasty has a dignified shape, a relatively light and thin carcass, and a very delicate and compact structure. It is very similar to extremely fine starch. There are traces of brushing; the glaze is applied evenly, the hand feels smooth, and it is difficult to see "tear marks", and the glaze color is relatively uniform. This is much better than the later Ding porcelain, let alone those Ding porcelain from folk kilns."

Du Shengqing shook his head: "Old Guan, since you said that, then I don't understand. Since you said that the craftsmanship is so high, why does this tea cup look irregular?"

Guan Guokang said angrily: "You guys like to carry me around, didn't you hear me just now? Perfect circle, inconsistent caliber, this is the characteristic of Feimangkou Ding kiln tribute porcelain, and it has become a defective product in your mouth!"

Du Shengqing smiled awkwardly, quickly changed the subject, and asked Chu Chen, "Xiao Chu, I just heard that this teacup was picked up by you. I wonder how much you spent?"

Chu Chen smiled and shook his head. Just as he was about to speak, Du Shengqing misunderstood the meaning and said in surprise, "Didn't you pick it up?"

Guan Guokang was also a little stunned and said: "Impossible, if it wasn't for picking up a leak, why did the young man react so strongly just now? Besides, you can't spend hundreds of millions to buy things at the stalls, right? "

At this moment, Chu Yulan covered her mouth and laughed straight away. When she told Guan Guokang about the matter just now, she just briefly mentioned it in the end, and didn't talk about the price.

Chu Chen smiled and said, "What I mean is, this teacup didn't cost any money, it was just a tip when buying a pottery horse."

"What?! Take the head!" Several people at the scene shouted in shock.

After a while, Guan Guokang shook his head: "No wonder that young man had such a big reaction just now!"

"Old Guan, what's going on?"

Du Shengqing's face was full of curiosity, and after Chu Chen had explained the cause and effect, he sneered and said:

"It's really self-inflicted. As the old saying goes, babies are always virtuous. For a person like him, it's no wonder that babies follow him!"

Everyone nodded in agreement.

At this time, Du Liyu said: "Uncle Guan, I have been paying attention to the auction market. The utensils of Ding kiln seem to be not too expensive. What did you say just now? It costs hundreds of millions. Is this black Ding tea cup really worth it?" Is it so valuable?"

Before Guan Guokang could speak, Du Shengqing reprimanded: "It's really vulgar to always ask for money. Such rare treasures can't be measured by money. Sometimes, even if you have money, you can't buy them."

Du Liyu smiled awkwardly, but she didn't take it seriously in her heart. She felt that there was nothing in the world that couldn't be bought with money, it was just more money and less money.

Du Shengqing took a look at his daughter and knew what she was thinking. He shook his head and sighed, "I know what you think, but some things can't be bought with money, such as the 矅形天目 collected in the Island Museum. According to the market value, it is only a few hundred or hundreds of millions, but if you spend so much money to buy it, do you think you will be able to buy it?"

(End of this chapter)