gifted collector

Chapter 96 On Jun Porcelain

Liu Hanyan sat quietly, watching quietly, and the topic of Fang Ming and others turned back to Junci in front of him.

"The Jun porcelain that Fang Ming picked up should be porcelain from the Song Dynasty, because its artistic style is consistent with that of the Song Dynasty. We all know that the most important thing about Jun porcelain is the glaze color during the firing process. Generally speaking, its characteristics It is natural and moist, and if it is fine, it can be divided into three categories. The first is kiln-changed monochromatic glaze. What we see now mainly includes moon white, bean green and sky blue; Mottled glaze, for example, sky blue red spot is one of the representatives; as for the last one is also the most famous one is the kiln flower glaze, the flower glaze that can be seen now mainly includes begonia red, sunset red and lilac purple and other varieties, and because Pit-changing flower glaze can best represent the style and charm of Jun porcelain that is naturally formed during the firing process, so it is also the most expensive among Jun porcelain."

Ji Gang pointed to the bowl on the table, sighed, and said, "This bowl is the begonia red in the glaze of the kiln in the Jun porcelain. One hundred million is high, but it is not impossible."

"what?!"

Fang Ming was taken aback. Of course he knew about the piece of Jun porcelain he picked up. He knew it from the ink-black color of the Pixiu that appeared on the back of his right hand. It is impossible for me to sell it, so I simply set a high price that Shen Gang cannot accept, one is to step on people, and the other is to scare off the other party. The porcelain has already been in my hands, so it is impossible to sell it. To open, there is a shortage of a lot of porcelain.

Zhou Yafang was also dumbfounded for a moment, a gleam of light burst out from her eyes, Fang Ming picked up a Begonia Red Flower Bowl from Song Junyao that was worth a lot of money, but she didn't think it would be worth so much money.

"Mr. Ji, we all know that Jun porcelain is worth more than gold of the same weight, but you say it's only worth nearly [-] million, which is a little too high."

Shaking his head, Ji Gang said, "My words are not exaggerating at all."

As he said that, Ji Gang stretched out his hand and gently picked up the bowl, while slowly rotating it, he said: "There are two artistic features of Jun porcelain, one is the opalescent state of the glaze and the other is the phenomenon of kiln transformation. The so-called opalescent The state refers to the beautiful azure blue semi-opacity state of the glaze of Jun porcelain, which is like green agate or opal, which will cause Jun porcelain to appear a blue color from light to dark, and this light is not exposed, but rather subtle. Elegance is exactly in line with our Chinese aesthetic concept. As for kiln transformation, it refers to the flow and fusion of the glaze of Jun porcelain during the high-temperature refining process, and the color of opacification and coloring changes, and this process is completely natural. Yes, it seems that after the early opening of Pangu, all kinds of beautiful scenery appeared in the process of the evolution of the universe, and when it was finally finalized, there would often be colorful and gorgeous glaze colors, such as red, white, blue and purple.

Ji Gang's eyes narrowed slowly, he felt that his sight was about to be completely absorbed by the small bowl in front of him, and he couldn't move away even if he wanted to.

The glaze color of Jun porcelain is blue like the blue sky after the rain, white like warm and moist jade; purple like a freshly peeled chicken head, red like peony or pomegranate crabapple, if there are blue and purple, it looks like purple seaweed turning up in the blue sea. Gently swaying with the waves... This can only be seen on the most exquisite Jun porcelain. Although the small bowl in front of me is small, it fully displays the most beautiful glaze color of Jun porcelain.

"Did you see that most of the upper part of this bowl is fiery red, but there is a purple color at the foot, it looks like a flower blooming in the hottest Pomegranate flowers in summer - the red ones are the petals, and the purple ones are the receptacles. If we hold them, our hands are like flower stems. If we put a few loquats in our bowl, they will become stamens... ...what a beautiful picture."

Jun porcelain comes from celadon, but it changes the single glass texture of celadon and brings color impact to people. This is definitely a very high artistic level.

Zheng Bai nodded and said, "Yes, that's right, that's exactly it. What's rare is that the glaze color of Jun porcelain is the result of natural changes, that is to say, the bowl in front of you has fiery red petals and purple petals." The torus is not artificial, and no one will know what the bowl will look like before it is fired in the kiln, so the appearance we see now can only be attributed to God's will, the world There is only one like this in the world, and there is no way to find it again.”

"Mr. Ji, I heard that you once presided over a study on the analysis of Jun porcelain with modern instruments?"

Zhou Yafang suddenly remembered that once when she was talking about antiques with her grandfather, she had heard the same thing. Now that Ji Gang was right in front of her, she just wanted to verify it.

Ji Gang nodded and said: "Yes, that's right. A few years ago, in order to further study Jun porcelain, I cooperated with a department and used some of the excavated pieces of Jun porcelain for research. We found that Jun porcelain The composition of the glaze is very complicated. Generally speaking, it can be divided into four layers. The first and second layers, which are the parts closest to the fetal rest, are very similar to the azure glaze, and there are a lot of air bubbles under the glaze; color and form a discontinuous state, as for the fourth layer, which is the outermost layer, is a very neat copper oxide layer. From the point of view of modern science, such a result can be used to select many kinds of wavelengths Therefore, the glaze color will change a lot. What surprised us is how the craftsmen at that time did this. You must know that even with the current technology and modern high-temperature instruments, we are very It’s hard to do that.”

"The wisdom and craftsmanship of the ancients often exceed our imagination. For example, Jun porcelain is often simple and dignified in shape, with the same size and size, and the wall of the tire is evenly thick and thin, and has skillfully mastered various raw materials in the firing process. The expansion coefficient, etc. that appear, this is a remarkable achievement in ancient times without modern instruments."

Of course, during the course of the research, some other distinctive features of the Jun Award were discovered, and these are quite surprising.

"Look, there is another thing about the bowl that Fang Ming picked up that deserves our attention, and that is the 'earthworm mud pattern' on it."

"Earthworms running mud lines? What is this?"

The shortcomings of Fang Ming's new entry into the industry were also revealed at this time. Although he had made up for collecting knowledge some time ago, there are more than thousands of knowledge involved in collecting?It is not something that can be grasped in a short while.For example, he had never heard of the "earthworm mud pattern" mentioned by Ji Gang at this time.

It is not the first time Zhou Yafang, Wu Ze and others have seen Fang Ming's "high score and low ability" phenomenon, so they are not surprised, but Fang Ming's question surprised Zhong Jigang, saying : "Huh? You don't even know this but you can pick it up? This is too..."

"Heh, Mr. Ji, don't be surprised. He's just like this. He's a good picker, but when it comes to antique collection, he really doesn't know much."

Zhou Yafang's explanation made Ji Gang helplessly shake his head. There are really such people in this world. People like me who have studied for a lifetime really want to find a piece of tofu to kill.

After Zhou Yafang finished speaking, she turned her head and said to Fang Ming: "This is a natural kiln-shaped decoration that appears during the firing process of Jun porcelain. Jun porcelain will produce decorations during the kiln transformation process. In addition to the mud pattern, there are rabbit silk patterns and ice flake patterns. As for the earthworm mud pattern, it is the irregular stripes that appear on the glaze layer of Jun porcelain, just like the traces left by earthworms after walking in the soil. Generally speaking, that’s why the name came up. As for the rabbit silk pattern, it is the undulation of the shape and the change of the glaze liquid formed during the firing process. In the end, it looks like the fur on the rabbit’s body, and it stands up three-dimensionally. The ice flake pattern is also called 'kaijia', which is an irregular crack that appears on the glaze of porcelain."

"So it is."

Only then did Fang Ming understand what the so-called "earthworm mud lines" were.Spreading his hands, he continued: "Okay, in the future I will work harder to study business knowledge, so as not to lose face."

Zhou Yafang gave Fang Ming a hard look, and said, "It's good to know."

Everyone laughed.

"Fang Ming, speaking of it, you are already a wonderful flower in our Ningdong City collection circle."

Zheng Bai brought a cup of tea to his mouth and took a sip. The tea was boiling hot, and his brows were relaxed.

"Oh? What do you say?"

Fang Ming let Zheng Bai's words confuse Monk Erzhang, and a puzzled expression appeared on his face.

"You forgot it just after it happened? Let's talk about it. It wasn't long before I entered the industry. It's not surprising that there is a lack of knowledge in collections. It's not surprising that I don't know about earthworms walking in mud. Who of us was not like this back then? As time goes by, Learn slowly, as long as you work hard, one day you will know more and more."

"This is a process, and none of us can cross it in one step."

"But the crux of the problem is that you can pick up leaks! We are all antiques, who hasn't picked up leaks? But here comes the problem again, you pick up leaks almost every day, and you pick up accurate leaks, and none of them are small leaks. It's all big leaks, we old Jianghu have never heard of such a thing, what do you mean if it's not weird?"

Rubbing his nose, Fang Ming shook his head. He really had no way to refute what Zheng Bai said, because it was all the truth. Picking up leaks? If it was picking up leaks every day, I would have posted it by now!"

Zheng Bai's eyes widened, and his fiery temper appeared again: "Why, you haven't picked up enough leaks now? Do you want to take all the treasures in the world back to your home? We people go to eat the northwest wind. ?”

"Well, it seems reasonable for you to say that, I accept everyone's criticism and correction!"

Fang Ming could only nod "helplessly" to admit his "mistake".

(End of this chapter)