Chapter 465

Originally, Chu Chen planned to fly back to Beijing early tomorrow morning. However, because of the "Zhang huoni" incident, it is estimated that he will have to wait another day or two to leave. In this way, there is nothing to do when he goes back. In addition, Chu Chen and Uncle Wu can only agree.

Du Hou politely filled chuchen's cup with tea, and then gratefully said: "Xiao Chu, today I really thank you very much. If it wasn't for you, I probably wouldn't know in my life that the blue and white bowl I bought at the stall would be a real yuan blue and white one."

Chu Chen waved his hand and said, "it's just luck, and if it wasn't for your bowl, I couldn't find the problem!"

Du Hou didn't say much about it. He said with a smile, "you sit here for a while, and I'll come." Then he got up from the sofa and went inside.

A moment later, Du Hou came out holding a brocade box, and then carefully placed it on the tea table. He opened the lid of the box and said to Chu Chen with a smile: "little Chu, you helped me realize my dream of blue and white in Yuan Dynasty this time. I can't repay you. I'll transfer the precious purple clay pot I got in my early years to you."

When Chu Chen and Wu Shu heard Du Hou say that, they immediately knew that the purple clay pot was not simple, so they all looked into the box curiously. However, when they saw the unique shape of the purple clay pot, they were a little stunned.

After a while, Chu Chen came back to his senses. He asked Du Houdao with disbelief, "is this a spring pot, Mr. Du?"

Even if it's a big pot, I don't think it's a good one! If this pot is real or not, let's discuss it after you've seen it

Chu Chen nodded his head and agreed. Then he politely asked Uncle Wu to look at it first. Uncle Wu didn't refuse. He put on his gloves and took out the purple clay pot in the box and looked at it carefully.

When it comes to the purple clay pot, the name of Gongchun is familiar to both the artists and the fans.

Gongchun, also known as Gongchun, was born in Hongzhi and Zhengde years of the Ming Dynasty. He used to be Wu Yishan's family boy. Wu Yishan, a famous official, is friendly with Tang Bohu in Suzhou. In 1898, Zhengde became a Jinshi, and later promoted Sichuan to participate in politics with the assistant envoy of tixue, who was also a little famous person at that time.

According to records, before Wu Yishan won the Jinshi examination, he was suitable to study and prosper Jinsha temple. The bookboy offered spring "time for making" and found that the monks of Jinsha temple had clarified the fine clay used to make pottery jars and jars, made them into shapes, round and regular, hollow and made them into pots. Then he "imitated the old monk's craftsman, also panned the fine soil, kneaded the green teaspoon hole, pointed out and plundered the inside and outside", and made the teapot "chestnut dark as ancient gold". This is the later famous purple clay teapot.

Later, the skill of Gongchun was improved, and the reason of its owner Wu Yishan finally made him the first famous person in the history of purple clay pot, and took the place of grandmaster.

Because of this, Gongchun pot is very precious. It has been a treasure pursued by people for hundreds of years since the late Ming Dynasty. Zhou Shu's Tai Yang Bai Yong: "the most important small pot for spring, one used for decades, is worth a wat."

However, Gongchun teapots are rare, and only three of them are recorded. The most famous one is the old one..

At this time, the purple clay pot in Uncle Wu's hand was also a tree gall pot. As the name suggests, the body of the pot was shaped like a pine gall, and the handle was shaped like a branch. However, the lid of the pot was not melon shaped like the tree gall pot in the Museum, but an ordinary round lid. The surface of the pot was concave and convex like a tree gall.

In fact, the lid of the tree gall pot in the museum is not the original one. The pot was bought by Mr. Chu Nanqiang at a stall in 1928. After many investigations, he learned that this pot had been collected in Wu Dacheng's house, the collector of Da Zang in the late Qing Dynasty. He thought it was a genuine Gongchun pot, but the lid was made by Huang Yulin, a famous Pot Maker in the late Qing Dynasty.

When Huang Binhong saw this, he thought that Huang Yulin's back cover was "Zhang Guan Li Dai", so he asked Pei Shimin, a famous Pot Maker in the Republic of China, to replace it with a tree gall cover, and wrote a note about it.

That is to say, no one can tell exactly what the lid of the tree gall pot was originally like, and the spring pot is more casual, so the two real tree gall pots should not be the same.

Uncle Wu looked at the tree gall pot in his hand again and again. After a long time, he put it back in place. Seeing this, Du Hou asked: "Xiao Wu, what do you think of this pot?"

Uncle Wu said with a smile: "I think the charm of this pot is very good. It's very likely to be a spring pot. As for how it is, let's wait until Xiao Chen sees it!"

Chu Chen nodded, ready to work, some can't wait to take the pot out of the box, carefully look.

The shape of this pot is simple and exquisite, and the whole body is natural and simple. Although it is the same as the tree gall pot in the museum, it looks different on the surface. By contrast, it looks like two completely different tree galls. Of course, the pot for spring is hand-made. If the two pots have the same appearance, at least one of them is a fake.When Chu Chen took the pot into his hand, he felt it was quite light. When he opened the lid and observed it carefully, he could see that the lid was really thin, which fully reflected the characteristics of pure thin and solid quality of Gongchun pot. In addition, the word "Gongchun" was engraved beside the handle.

Like Uncle Wu, Chu Chen carefully observed the pot after a long time, and finally used the ability, which surprised him a lot.

"Xiao Chen (Xiao Chu), what do you think of this pot?" Seeing that Chu Chen had finished, Wu Shu and Du Hou asked in unison.

Chuchen 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.

"Then I'll give you a few comments."

Chu Chen said: "we know that at that time, the craft of the purple clay pot was still very primitive, and the technology of beating the body tube, inlaying the body tube and blocking the blank of the mold could not appear at this time. Therefore, the Gongchun pot could not have the above-mentioned technical characteristics. Originality is one of the main characteristics of the Gongchun pot. I think the Gongchun pot at that time should have been made by hand, and then by simple work It has been trimmed, and even finger marks can be seen on the pot

"And this pot shows this characteristic. In addition, just 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, due to the open fire firing, the color of the firing utensil was not uniform enough, and there should be tears of glaze splashing on the body. This pot also shows these two points. "

Wu Shu and Du Hou nodded after hearing this and agreed with Chu Chen on two points. Chu Chen also said his opinion:

"in addition, we know that the production of Gongchun pot is very casual. It's meaningless to bump the pot and scratch the surface in the production process. But even so, if it's a real Gongchun pot, it can express what he wants The meaning should be expressed completely

"And this pot is like this. Although it looks pitted on the surface, and there are fingerprints in some places, it has a clear view of the vigorous, ancient, natural and simple meanings on it. I don't know who can express these meanings easily and casually except for the few purple clay pot masters in history!"

Chu Chen concluded: "to sum up, I think this purple clay pot should be a real spring pot!"

"Pa Pa!"

After listening to Chu Chen's explanation, Wu Shu and Du Hou couldn't help clapping and cheering for him.

Chu Chen said modestly that he was flattered. After a while, he asked curiously, "Mr. Du, how did you get this spring pot?"

Du Hou said with a smile: "it's fun for me to think about it now!..."

Ten years ago, Du Hou went to the capital because he had to stay for a long time. In his spare time, he didn't have any other hobbies, so he often went to the antique market and was very happy to go shopping.

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

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

But what surprised Du Hou was that before the old man put the things on the table for a long time, several people gathered around him. In the blink of an eye, everyone picked up something. Some of them picked up the magnifying glass for a while to have a look, some of them turned over and over to find the fault, and even more, they just looked at it and left happily.

This made Du Hou very surprised. He secretly wondered if the things on the stall were so good, they were so popular, and it seemed that he didn't use money for money. In his view, after playing antiques for many years, he felt that they were full of evil force.

However, the next scene made Du Hou immediately understand what the bustling scene was for.

After a while, a fat, middle-aged man dressed as a nouveau riche rushed to the old man's stall. It was estimated that there was nothing good in the stall, and his face immediately showed a strong sense of disappointment.

But just as the middle-aged man was about to leave, a half hundred old man with glasses, neatly combed hair and plain but clean clothes, who looked like a senior intellectual, came to the stall