Master descends to earth

Chapter 184 The VIP in Blue and White
Geng Baochang suddenly asked mysteriously: "Do you know what is the real Tianzi No. [-] collection in our Forbidden City?"

Su Yuan was taken aback, very curious, what would be the treasure that can make the Forbidden City rank first in the world?
"Come, let me show you for yourself!"

Geng Baochang waved his hand, and the two came to the westernmost corner of the exhibition hall, and finally saw the mysterious treasure.

"This is……"

Su Yuan was shocked when he looked at what he saw in front of him, and asked in confusion: "A wooden door pier for stepping on?"

"Hahaha, didn't expect that? It's just this little stool. It's the No. [-] Tianzi in the Forbidden City!"

Geng Baochang laughed heartily and explained: "The earliest numbering method of the Forbidden City cultural relics was based on palaces, using one character in the "Thousand-Character Classic" as the code name. For example, the Qianqing Palace where the emperor lived was assigned to "Heaven", and the Kunning Palace where the queen lived was assigned to "" ", and then register the cultural relics displayed in the palace, and then give serial numbers in order."

"It is said that when the staff numbered the cultural relics, because the first thing they saw when they entered the door was this small stool, so they listed it as the cultural relic No. [-] in Tianzi, and this number has been used to this day."

"The magic is more than that. Do you know what is the number one in the Tianzi of Baodao Forbidden City?"

Geng Baochang laughed and said: "It's also a small stool, the emperor's step stool, because they all use this numbering method, do you think it's funny?"

The two laughed loudly, and came to another display case, only to see a blue and white figure jar, which was actually a broken weapon?

Yuan blue and white,
Character tank!
Geng Baochang stared at the remnant vessel, and said helplessly: "This is one of the regrets of the Forbidden City. The Yuan blue-and-white character story jar has a very important position in the porcelain industry. It is a brilliant and dazzling flower that even occupies a dominant position and cannot be replaced by anyone. Treasures."

"There are only eight Yuan blue and white figure jars in the world that have been recognized for a long time, and they have all been lost overseas. This fragment comes from the private sector, and it is the most complete preserved work. It is also the only remaining artifact in the Forbidden City. There is no other way, but it is better than nothing!"

Su Yuan nodded, Yuan Qinghua was already very rare, let alone figure jars, which were much rarer than Ru kiln.

The most talked about is Guiguzi Down the Mountain, which was sold at Christie’s in London for 2005 million pounds in 1400. It was acquired by the Jewish antique dealer Eskenazi, and the commission was equivalent to about 2.3 million yuan.

Create a sky-high price record, and replace it with gold for a whole room. In terms of cost performance, it is still invincible.

The only work in China is the blue-and-white Yuchi Gong single-riding savior pot in Yuan Dynasty unearthed in Siguanling, Hengxian County in 1980, which was discarded in the corner for seven years after unearthed.

In 1987, an agronomist accidentally found and picked it up to grow flowers and seeds. It was only in 1989 that cultural relic experts confirmed the status of national treasure, and even the Forbidden City could only envy and hate it.

Geng Baochang sighed and recalled: "On the day when Guiguzi went down the mountain, there were at least a dozen people who participated in the auction, many of whom were from Chinese collectors, including Wang Dingqian, the general manager of Baodao Humble House, Zhang Zongxian, the auction No.1, and the secretary general of the Hong Kong Island Art Chamber Zhai Jianmin."

"When the bidding reached 1000 million pounds, there were still six or seven bidders. At that time, Wang Dingqian told me that the valuation was around 800 million pounds, and the highest support point was set at 1000 million pounds. Unexpectedly, in the end..."

The old man said sadly: "Eskenazi is the world's main antique dealer dealing in early works of art. He only joined when the bid price reached 1350 million pounds. After a long period of competition, he won the treasure."

"Even he was exhausted by the tense atmosphere of the scene after filming. He has reached his limit. I don't know how long he can last."

"The most amazing thing is that this Yuan blue and white piece was salvaged from a sunken ship!"

Su Yuan looked at the blue and white flowers of the Yuan Dynasty and reviewed the development history of porcelain. The blue and white flowers of the Yuan Dynasty were undoubtedly one of the highlights.Except for some small pieces of plain porcelain in the Yuan Dynasty, most of them were collected in Iranian and Turkish museums. Because of the rare sky blue, they were regarded as national treasures.

Cobalt oxide is used as raw material to draw patterns on the white porcelain body, then cover it with transparent glaze, and then fire underglaze porcelain at high temperature.Its blue color on a white background is as new as a millennium.

Although blue and white porcelain existed as early as the Tang Dynasty, the complete Tang blue and white porcelain and Song blue and white porcelain have not been found so far.In the middle and late Yuan Dynasty, the blue and white craft gradually matured.

"According to expert research and estimation, there are only 300 pieces of Yuan blue and white in the world, and all of them are in museums. There are basically no genuine products among the people, and even few high-quality imitations, because the raw materials are too rare."

Su Ma Li Qing!

This kind of raw material, which has long been extinct, makes the blue and white decoration of the overall picture change in depth due to the influence of kiln temperature. Observing with a magnifying glass, it gives people a clear and deep feeling.

Looking closely at the blue and white color, it is vivid, and there is a vivid sense of flow in the rich and colorful parts, which is unique in the ages.

Geng Baochang sighed: "This cobalt is produced in Quamsa Village, Boska Mountain. The local people believe that a man named Sulaiman discovered the cobalt, so it is named after him."

"The blue and white are rich and green in color and stable in color, because Sumali blue has high iron content and low manganese content. When fired at the appropriate temperature, it shows a bright sapphire-like color, which is beautiful."

"Because the iron content of Sumali green material is relatively heavy, the fired utensils have a feature that other glazes do not have, that is, rust spots. Strictly speaking, this should be a defect, and it is precisely this defect that makes Yuan blue and white."

Su Yuan studied carefully, and various scenes flashed through his eyes, and he found that during the firing process, the iron contained in the Sumali green material would break through the glaze surface, causing a crack that could not be artificially made on the glaze surface.

It is as irregular as the explosion point, but at the same time, it has a sense of ups and downs and layers. Some are like branches that fall in winter, some are like burnt but not burnt cinders, and some are like terraced fields with water on the mountain. More like a vortex in a torrent.

Even the ghost faces in abstract paintings are in various poses and with different expressions.There are hundreds of explosive points in each artifact, and each explosive point has a different pattern. Who can imitate it?

Opening up a new era of transition from plain color to colored porcelain, the painting style is bold, magnificent, and multi-layered. It has opened up a new way in the traditional aesthetics of the Chinese nation.

Yuan Qinghua uses hemp warehouse soil and porcelain stone as its skeleton and flesh and blood body, uses Sumaliqing and white celadon as clothes, and gives soul to porcelain with superb painting technology and charm, so it has repeatedly set sky-high prices in the history of auctions all over the world. Record and establish dominance.

"At that time, Suma Liqing had long since disappeared. Even if it was later replaced by Huiqing during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the best quality would not be able to reproduce the beauty of the Yuan Dynasty!"

Geng Baochang said with dismay: "Thousands of thousands of talented people have tried to reproduce Yuan blue and white, but no matter the raw materials or the craftsmanship, no one has ever been able to succeed. This is the real rarity."

(End of this chapter)