Future Optical Brain System

Chapter 17 Ge Kiln Porcelain

The famous Ge Kiln is one of the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty. Anyone who has played with porcelain knows his name. During the firing process of many porcelains, in order to pursue craftsmanship, too many cracks on the glaze are generally not allowed. However, Ge Kiln took the beauty of "open pieces" to the extreme and produced "golden wire and iron wire", a typical feature of Ge Kiln.

There is also a legend about the gold wire and iron wire: According to legend, in Longquan County in the Song Dynasty, there was a very famous porcelain maker, surnamed Zhang, named Cungen, who was the father of the legendary Zhang Shengyi and Zhang Shenger.Zhang Cungen is famous for making celadon. The two brothers, Shengyi and Shenger, learned from their father since childhood. The eldest Zhang Shengyi is kind, willing to learn, and endures hardships. .After Zhang Cungen's death, the brothers separated and each opened a kiln factory.

The kiln factory opened by the elder Zhang Shengyi is Ge Kiln, and the kiln factory opened by the second Zhang Sheng Er is Di Kiln.The two brothers both made celadon, and both had their own achievements.But the boss was superior in his skills and fired celadon with "purple mouth and iron feet", which became famous all over the world for a while, and his reputation spread to the emperor.

The second brother was narrow-minded and jealous, and when his brother was not paying attention, he threw the clay into Zhang Shengyi's glaze vat. The glaze on the surface of the kiln full of porcelain is all cracked, the cracks are big and small, long and short, thick and thin, curved and straight, and have different shapes, some like fish roe, some like Willow leaves, some are like crab claws.

He wanted to cry, but after learning from the pain, he regained his spirits. He made a cup of tea and painted the thick tea on the porcelain. The cracks immediately turned into brown lines, and then he painted the ink, and the cracks immediately turned into black lines. In this way, a "golden thread" is inadvertently formed.

The defects of Ge Kiln are endowed by literati with a pursuit of beauty, which is called the beauty of defects. The highest level of aesthetics is what is commonly referred to as morbid beauty.The beauty of defects is pushed to the supreme position, and Geyao was born in such a position.

"It's a crime." A middle-aged man standing next to Chen Dong said.

Chen Dong hurriedly asked the middle-aged man, "Uncle, what's going on."

The middle-aged man seemed to be familiar with this young man who sold Ge Kiln porcelain, and said to Chen Dong, "It's not the kid from the Wang family. Since his parents passed away, he has no control and has since become addicted to gambling. Gambling is a thing of the past. , Nine times out of ten bets, I finally sold my house.”

Chen Dong asked, "He's selling it here, can he sell it? Why don't you send some money to have someone appraise it? It's fine if it's fake. If it's true, the money you get from selling it is enough to spend your whole life."

The middle-aged man chuckled and said, "The appraisal fee is not low. He doesn't have any money. Even if he had money, he would use it all to gamble. But I don't think he himself believes in this real thing. Think about it, Ding, you, brother." There are not many pieces of porcelain from the five famous kilns of Kiln, Guan, and Jun that have been handed down to the world, and most of them are kept in museums. If the Wang family boy is so lucky, there will be one of them."

"It's true." Chen Dong nodded and said.

As far as Chen Dong knows, the five famous kilns handed down from generation to generation are mainly preserved in major museums around the world, mainly Yanjing and the National Palace Museum in Taipei. The five famous kilns that can be circulated in the collection market are rare, and every time they appear, they will definitely surprise top collectors A 'fight' at home.

Chen Dong asked the middle-aged man again, "Why don't you go to the antique street and set up a stall to sell it?"

"It costs money to rent a booth."

Chen Dong understood now that it was still a matter of money.

"The glaze is shiny, I think this piece of porcelain is fake." At this time, a young man who was watching expressed his opinion.

His 'opinion' actually won the nod of approval from many onlookers.

When Chen Dong heard it, he almost burst out laughing, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand, it is estimated that the half-knowledged antique terminology he learned from there was forced to cover this porcelain.

The so-called thief light is the kind of dazzling light floating on the surface of porcelain. The corresponding one is 'pao'. What is 'pao'? It is the soft and moist light on the antiques. As long as it goes through time, its surface will change. , there will be a layer of patina, and new things are impossible to have.

The counterfeiters want to imitate it more authentically, so they will use various local methods, foreign methods, clumsy methods, and ingenious methods. However, in any case, the result is not only that it is still unpatinaed, but also has an extra layer of glamorous, blunt, frivolous, and ugly. Feel uncomfortable.

"I think so. It must be fake. If it is true, it will cost millions."

Well, another layman who doesn't know how to pretend to understand. If this is true, it will be at least dozens of times more than 100 million.

Chen Dong now understands that the people around him are all outsiders, they are just watching the excitement, and they still have to pretend to be knowledgeable, didn't they see that the seller is looking pale?

Chen Dong smiled, walked over, and asked the young man named Wang, "Can you get started?"

Wang Jiacheng was troubled. He had a lot of debt due to gambling. He had just sold his only house and paid off part of it. When he was cleaning out the furniture, he found this stove. When he first found it, the stove body was covered with dust and there were still some things inside. There were a few burnt incense sticks on the incense ashes. To make it look better, he washed it with water before taking it out and maybe selling it for some money. Everyone around him said that the stove was fake, and he himself He became less confident, and just then Chen Dong came to ask him and quickly said, "Okay, okay!"

"Where did this bottle come from?"

"Heirloom." In fact, he didn't know where it came from, anyway, he found out that incense candles were inserted in the stove before.

Chen Dong smiled and didn't answer. He carefully picked up the stove and observed carefully. The patina was thick, and the glaze exuded a luster like "ghee". People are so unreliable.

The green body is purple-black, and the thin part of the glaze on the edge of the mouth of the vessel is yellowish-brown due to the hidden lines showing the tire color, and at the same time, the part of the bottom foot where the glaze is not hung is iron black. This is the so-called "purple mouth and iron foot". The characteristics of the kiln fit perfectly.

Looking at the glaze surface of the utensils, there are fine and small openings, commonly known as "hundred rubbish broken" or "turtle pattern" in the antique industry, with interlaced lines and a thick glaze layer. The thickest outer part is equal to the thickness of the tire, and the glaze contains air bubbles. Like pearls looming, it is like the beautiful rhyme of "gathering foam and gathering pearls".

'Purple mouth and iron feet', 'Gathering foam and beads', and 'Golden iron wire'. From these three characteristics, Chen Dong can conclude that the artifact in his hand is indeed Ge Kiln porcelain. Of course, he does not rule out that it is a modern imitation, but he can There are very few imitations of this reality.

Besides, the characteristics can be imitated, but it is difficult to imitate the ancient rhyme of the porcelain stove after thousands of years with modern technology.

(End of this chapter)