Chapter 901

To say, pony has long wanted to sell this plum vase to improve his living environment, but it's hard to find a good buyer. He either thinks it's too expensive, or he wants something like this or that, so he's been putting it off until now. Now it's not easy to have a big customer like Chu Chen. Even if he gives up some interests, he will agree.

Xiao Ma said to Chu Chen with a smile: "Mr. Chu, this auction does not have such a price, but that's because the auction does not produce such a fine product. Of course, if you really want it, I can give you a little cheaper... "

After three million and six hundred thousand people were happy, the price was decided at the last time.

In addition to being happy, Xiaoma also offered a discount on the items he had taken out earlier. He only asked for 90000 yuan for four items, which is equivalent to 50% off Chu Chen's valuation.

After completing the transaction, Ma wanted to invite chuchen to lunch, but chuchen refused politely when he saw that it was not 10:30 and he had time to go back to the hotel for dinner. Then they went back to the hotel in a business car called by pony.

After getting off the bus, Chu Chen, holding a plum vase, walked to the hotel and said to Zuo Shan, "I've already contacted you in terms of transportation. I'll be back in about an hour. Then you can follow them."

Left mountain smell speech solemnly nodded: "Chu little, you rest assured! I will send this bottle back to Beijing safely

Chuchen laughs: "what else can I worry about when you do things Gee! Mr. Xu, what's the matter with you in such a hurry? "

Words just said here, three people met just finished the meal, look some in a hurry old Xu.

"It's not Xiao Chu. You're going back. I have to study those manuscripts more quickly."

Old Xu laughed, and then he noticed the plum vase in Chu Chen's hand. The whole person was stunned. After a while, he was shocked and asked, "little Chu, this plum vase seems to be something from the porcelain state kiln of the Northern Song Dynasty, isn't it?"

Chuchen nodded with a smile: "yes, it's really made in the porcelain state kiln of the Northern Song Dynasty."

Mr. Xu opened his mouth, then looked at the plum vase carefully, and then said, "this Xiao Chu, you really have no luck. How can you take all the good things in your hand? You can't pick up this plum vase again, can you

Chuchen smiles and shakes his head: "how can you pick up something that is so open?"

"It's the same here!" Old Xu laughs and knows that he is wrong. If Chu Chen can pick up such things, he doesn't know what to say.

Xu continued: "however, as long as the price is not too outrageous, I think it is worth it. What's more, I think the message of this plum vase is very unusual! "

"Yes! I think so, too! "

Speaking of this plum vase, Chu Chen immediately forgot his hunger and said excitedly, "old Xu, this is not a place to talk. Let's go to my room and discuss it again."

"OK..."

With that, Chu Chen took everyone back to his room, but when Wu Ke came to the door, he said to Zuo Shan, "brother Zuo, go to dinner first, and help us get some food later."

"OK..."

When Chu Chen returned to his room, he carefully placed the plum vase on the table and let Xu appreciate it.

After more than ten minutes, Xu took a long breath and exclaimed, "good thing! What a good thing! It's the first time I've seen such a large plum vase of Cizhou kiln in the Northern Song Dynasty. What's more rare is that it still uses the white ground and black glaze to pick flowers. "

It was very difficult for the craft level at that time to pick flowers with white ground and black glaze.

First of all, it needs to paint white clay on the carcass, then black clay. On the semi dry clay, it quickly carves out the black clay beyond the peony flowers and leaves to expose the white base, and then carves out the peony petals, leaf stems, rolled grass, lotus petals and other patterns. Then it needs to be dried and coated with transparent glaze, which shows the difficulty of its technology.

This technique appeared in Cizhou kilns from the 11th to the 12th century, and later had a wide influence on neighboring kilns.

"Yes, I haven't seen such Northern Song porcelain in any museum or magazine before." Chu Chen was also very excited.

"So you're lucky!"

Mr. Xu sighed with admiration, and then asked with a smile, "yes, since you also said that this plum vase is unusual just now, can you tell me where it is?"

Chuchen said with a little smile: "old Xu, what I said is not general, just guess, but can't be taken seriously."

Mr. Xu said with a smile, "it doesn't matter. Just say it, as long as it's not a random guess."

"OK, I'll give you my opinion. Please help me correct the mistakes."

Chu Chen hugged Xu, and then said his idea: "I think the kiln for making this plum vase should be the official kiln in Cizhou kiln..."Speaking of this, Wu Ke, standing beside him, interrupted: "ah Chen, isn't it? Cizhou kiln is not a folk kiln. How can there be an official kiln? Moreover, if it was an official kiln, how could there be no corresponding record in the literature at that time? "

"That's why I said it was a guess!" Chu Chen spread out his hand and said with a smile: "however, my guess is based on it."

"What basis?" Xu asked.

Chuchen explained with a smile: "the earliest record of Cizhou kiln in history is Cao Zhao's gegu Yaolun in Hongwu Period of Ming Dynasty. However, Cao Zhao did not say when Cizhou kiln was opened. It was not until the Qing Dynasty that Cizhou kiln was mentioned in the Northern Song Dynasty, but whether it was a folk kiln or an official kiln was not mentioned

"However, in Ming Dynasty documents, there are records that there are more than 40 official kilns in Cizhou kilns, which were built in Guanglu temple at the age of 40." in addition, there are records of the number of tribute to Cizhou kilns in Daming Huidian, with more than 10000 Royal bottles and altars in tribute each year. "

"Here, I would like to explain that the title of" Guanglu Temple "in this article is the official position of" Guanglu Temple minister "or" Guanglu minister ". This official position was in charge of the royal family's wine ceremony and food in Ming Dynasty, but it was not in Song Dynasty. Although there was no such position in Song Dynasty, the royal family always wanted to drink."

"You know, Bianjing in the Northern Song Dynasty was full of red lights and red wine, and the royal family was happy every day and every night. It needed a lot of wine and wine bottles and jars. During the Spring Festival and birthday celebrations, the royal family and nobles also present wine to each other. According to the literature, the royal family and nobles gave more than 900 bottles of wine on festivals. It can be seen that there is no way to calculate the amount of wine used by the royal family in the Northern Song Dynasty. "

"Well, the question is, which magnetic kiln produces so many wine bottles and jars? I think there must have been a royal porcelain factory producing high-grade wine bottles and wine jars at that time. "

Hearing this, Wu Ke asked, "ah Chen, do you mean that the Cizhou kiln in the Northern Song Dynasty is just like the Cizhou kiln in the Ming Dynasty, and some of the kilns are specially used for making wine vessels for the royal family?"

"This is not certain because there is no written record, but I speculate that it is possible that some of Cizhou kilns at that time were official kilns."

Chu Chen explained: "as we all know, there are five famous kilns in the Northern Song Dynasty. Most of the five famous kilns are built-in utensils. There are few utensils for study, such as bottles and altars. There are even fewer large bottles and altars. In addition, there is no record of the five famous kilns in the Northern Song Dynasty. The earliest record is the Xuande Dingyi genealogy in the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty. So it's not surprising that there are no records of wine bottles and wine jars used by the royal family in the Northern Song Dynasty... "

Next, Chu Chen explained why he thought that the Cizhou kiln in the Northern Song Dynasty was part of the official kiln. He heard Xu and Wu Ke nodding.

At last, Chu Chen sighed: "unfortunately, the Northern Song Dynasty was too short, and because of the war, some of the information at that time was destroyed. Otherwise, we might be able to find evidence that Cizhou kiln also had official kilns in the Northern Song Dynasty."

Mr. Xu said with a smile, "history has many uncertain factors. Just because of this, our cultural relic research has fun. To put it mildly, if everything is recorded in the literature, why should we make great efforts to study it?"

Chuchen nodded with a smile and said, "it's the same here!"

At this time, Wu Ke asked curiously, "ah Chen, since you speculated that there was an official kiln in Cizhou kiln in the Northern Song Dynasty, how can you think that this plum vase was the work of Cizhou kiln?"

"First of all, you need to know what is the white ground and black glaze flower picking technique..."

Chu Chen first introduced this technique, and then explained: "the difficulty of this technique lies in that first, there must be a set pattern, and then there must be a combination of picking, carving, and drawing techniques. This requires the craftsman to have a high degree of proficiency in painting on the semi dry makeup soil. He can walk like a flying knife, use the knife like a pen, and carve freely and carefully. Such as painting on rice paper, running clouds and flowing water, all at once. And then we need to bottle the pottery with a big sagger. "

"It's not so difficult for craftsmen to make regular bottles in Northern Song Dynasty. It should only be used by royal nobles. Otherwise, how can ordinary people afford to buy such porcelain? "

After listening to Chu Chen's explanation, Xu could not help cheering and clapping: "good! I don't believe that after they saw this plum vase, they could still swear that there must be no official kiln in Cizhou kiln of Northern Song Dynasty! "

Hearing this, Chu Chen said, "Mr. Yu, although I think this kind of plum vase should be made by the official kiln, I can't prove it just by my mouth."

Mr. Xu waved his hand: "the evidence is sure to be found in the future. We should make bold assumptions and be careful to verify it. It's like being old and stubborn, saying that there is no key evidence, we must do what we want. When they do this, they are totally one size fits all! "

Seeing Xu's appearance, Chu Chen can't say anything more than laugh. After all, it's the battle of the elders. What's his involvement?