I'm really the king of leaks

Chapter 486
"These blue-and-white porcelains are exquisite in workmanship. They may be high-quality official kilns of the Ming Dynasty, or they can be identified!"

or identifiable?

Official kiln?

Boutique?

How can it be?

Zhang Yi felt unbelievable.

How could there be official blue and white porcelain in this place?
Judging from this person's equipment, he is indeed the kind of person who goes into the sea to salvage porcelain professionally.However, Hailao porcelain is often exported. Under normal circumstances, official kiln porcelain does not appear at all.

Otherwise, Tang Dayuan would not have said that he is not interested in hailaoci.

If hailao porcelain is valuable, how could he not be interested?

But if the Hailao porcelain is an official kiln and a high-quality product, it will be quite different.

Although the blue-and-white porcelain of the Ming Dynasty is not as famous as the blue-and-white porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty, the early blue-and-white porcelain of the Ming Dynasty is very similar to the blue-and-white porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty, and the artistic style is very much the legacy of the Yuan Dynasty.

Official kiln blue and white, even if it is salvage, is still very valuable.

But then again.

Does Hailao Porcelain have an official kiln?
In this regard, in fact, relevant experts have done research.

Under normal circumstances, most of them believe that Hailao porcelain is all exported porcelain, and exported porcelain is all private production, which has nothing to do with official kiln porcelain.

Among the salvaged porcelain, the famous porcelain found is often the porcelain imitated by the folk kilns.

This is also one of the reasons why the price of hailao porcelain cannot go up.

Sky-high antiques are often produced in official kilns.

This is also true.

and so.

This voice suddenly appeared in Zhang Yi's mind, saying that the porcelain in front of Zhang Yi might be fine blue and white porcelain from official kilns, which was very different from the knowledge Zhang Yi had read from books before.

Official kilns are all for the imperial palace, how could they appear in this place?

Have these questions.

Zhang Yi carefully picked up one of the porcelains.

It has two ears and a dragon pattern.

For the time being, call it the amphora with cloud and dragon patterns.

The workmanship of this blue and white porcelain is indeed very exquisite.

Moreover, the blue and white color is gray and the carcass is very thick. These are actually the characteristics of Yuan blue and white.However, on the bottom of the porcelain bottle, there is a six-character inscription "Made in the Hongwu Year of the Ming Dynasty".

During the Hongwu period, it was the early Ming Dynasty, that is, the porcelain of Zhu Yuanzhang's time.

No wonder, it looks like Yuan blue and white.

In the early Ming Dynasty, blue and white porcelain was fired, inheriting the production method of the Yuan Dynasty, so it was naturally similar to the blue and white porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty.

And among these pieces of porcelain.

Except for a piece of blue and white glazed red porcelain, the others are all blue and white porcelain.Moreover, the characteristics are very similar.They should all be from Hongwu period.

Also.

On the amphora with cloud and dragon pattern, five-clawed dragons are used.

This further proves that this is indeed a batch of official kiln porcelain from the Hongwu period.

why?
Because, Ming Dynasty porcelain has very strict regulations on dragon patterns.

Dragons can be used in folk kiln porcelain, but five-clawed dragons cannot be used in Jedi.The five-clawed dragon pattern is only allowed to be used by the royal family, and anyone who dares to use it by the common people is trespassing and a felony that will lead to decapitation.

but.

The problem is coming.

Why did the official kiln porcelain of Zhu Yuanzhang's time appear in the sea and be salvaged by later generations?

In the early Ming Dynasty, there was a sea ban in policy.

but.

To a certain extent, the sea ban is actually a dead letter.

Maritime trade in coastal areas is still very frequent.If a sunken ship is found, it is a merchant ship from the early Ming Dynasty, carrying some porcelain from folk kilns, which is normal.

However, the official kiln porcelain seems to be not quite right.

at this point.

Zhang Yi couldn't figure it out.

and so.

With his right index finger, he touched the amphora with cloud dragon pattern.

Next.

In his mind, there was a voice immediately.

"Excuse me, is it authenticated?"

"Identify!"

Zhang Yi thought to himself.

at the same time.

Fang Yiyi also picked up a blue and white porcelain plate, the relatively small one, it should be a cup holder.The edge is lotus pattern, she also looked very carefully.

And here.

In Zhang Yi's mind, a voice came again.

"Double Chilong-eared Vase with Cloud and Dragon Design, Hongwu Period, Ming Dynasty."

"In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the establishment of a royal kiln factory in Zhushan, JDZ, which became the earliest official kiln in JDZ in the Ming Dynasty. The blue and white porcelain production in the Hongwu Dynasty all carried the legacy of the Yuan Dynasty. The shape of the utensils is pier-shaped bowls, waist-shaped plates, and waist-shaped bowls. There are many, most of which follow the old system of Yuan Dynasty; the blue and white color is grayish, and the carcass is thick; the decorative lines of the pattern are rough and unrestrained, which has changed the style of the Yuan Dynasty with many layers and full patterns, and tends to leave more blank space."

"This cloud-dragon-patterned double-chilong-eared vase is quite in the style of the Yuan Dynasty. The blue and white flowers are not as emerald as the Yuan blue and white flowers. This is actually because the wars at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty interrupted the source of imported green materials, and the blue and white flowers were fired. It is caused by the use of domestic green materials with low iron content and high manganese content."

"In addition, this blue and white pattern is concise and smooth, bold and vivid. The image of the dragon pattern in the cloud dragon pattern is not as fierce as that in the Yuan Dynasty. , these are the characteristics of the high-quality official kilns in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty."

"Therefore, this vase with cloud and dragon pattern and double chilong ears in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty is indeed a fine blue and white porcelain official kiln in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty!"

"also."

"In the early Ming Dynasty, although there was a sea ban on trade, the smuggling trade was still hot. However, this Hongwu blue and white porcelain was not a product of smuggling trade. Trade has a close relationship."

"Of course, in ancient overseas trade, there were many dynasties that basically focused on tribute trade, and this deformed trade method continued until the middle of the Qing Dynasty."

"What is tribute trade?"

"In fact, overseas countries sent their national specialties to the court of the Ming Dynasty in the form of tribute, and the emperor of the Ming Dynasty gave back the items in the form of rewards."

"However, this kind of trade relationship is not an equivalent exchange based on the value, but to reflect the superiority of the imperial power centered on the Ming Dynasty court. However, in order to show its sense of superiority, the Ming Dynasty would give rebates worth hundreds or even thousands of taels of silver to overseas countries to reflect its sense of superiority as a big country.”

"And this kind of deformed trade method even caused the Ming Dynasty's finances to be very tight. In the end, it had to limit the number of times foreign countries came to trade in the form of cooperation."

"During the tribute trade, the porcelains that the royal family of the Ming Dynasty rewarded overseas countries were of course high-quality porcelains from official kilns to reflect the greatness of the emperor's grace and to spread grace beyond the territory."

"Therefore, it is not unreasonable for official kilns to appear in Hailao porcelain. This just reflects the existence of tribute trade in the Ming Dynasty, which was carried out by the royal family in the Ming Dynasty."

"Therefore, this porcelain vase with blue and white cloud and dragon pattern and double chilong ears from the official kiln in the Hongwu Period of the Ming Dynasty, although it was salvaged porcelain, was not commercially exported porcelain, but tribute trade porcelain. It is well preserved, which is really rare!"

(End of this chapter)